Edward Langille
Edward M. Langille has been a professor of Modern Languages at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia since 1989. He specializes in the area of Enlightenment studies, and is one of Canadas leading experts on Voltaire and his works. He is the North American correspondent for Socit des tudes voltairiennes, an international organization that promotes and coordinates research, events and publications relating to Voltaire. Langille also specializes in studies of Acadian culture and history.
Edward Langille was born on April 11, 1959 in St. Catharines, Ontario, but grew up in the village of Londonderry Mines in Colchester County, Nova Scotia and attended public schools in the area. He holds six university degrees. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in modern languages from Universit SainteAnne in Pointedelglise, Nova Scotia in 1980 and earned two degrees in French literature, L. s L. and M. s L. from the Universit de Nantes in 1982 and 1983. In 1984, he was awarded an additional modern languages degree from Universit Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. The following year, he earned a Masters degree in international history from the London School of Economics writing his Masters thesis on the French Socialist party in the years immediately before World War I. In 1987, Langille completed a doctoral dissertation at Universit Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle on the medieval French translations of William, archbishop of Tyre, working under the direction of the late French medievali
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