Kelsey Haskett, Ph.D

Associate Professor of French and Department Chair

Kelsey Haskett grew up in London, Ontario, where she received her Hon. B.A. in French from the University of Western Ontario. After a year with Youth With a Mission in Montreal, she moved to Quebec City where she obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Literature from Laval University. She was also very involved in ministry in Quebec City, and took on many roles in her church, the Carrefour Chrétien Evangélique, including leading or co-leading a home for young women in the inner city for ten years. After teaching French at St. Stephen’s University in New Brunswick for three years, she came to Trinity Western University in 1989 to set up the French program. Over the years, she has developed and taught most of the French courses. Besides designing this program, which now consists of two streams leading to a minor or concentration in French, she has also supervised the development of the other language courses, becoming the chair of the newly created Modern Language Department in January 2003.

Her areas of research are French women’s literature and 20th century French literature. She has recently completed a major study on the novels of Marguerite Duras which has been accepted for publication by Summa Publications (Birmingham, AL). She contributed the chapter on modern languages to the book entitled Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines, edited by Deane Downey and Stanley Porter (McMaster Divinity College Press, 2009). She is also an active participant in the North American Christian Foreign Language Association, of which she was secretary for three years, and has published three articles in their Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, as well as an article in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal, published by Missouri Baptist University.