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Apr 11, 1959 65 years old
French academic
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About Edward Langille
- Edward M.
- Langille (born 1959) has been a professor of Modern Languages (French language and literature) at St.
- Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia since 1989.
- He specializes in the area of Enlightenment studies, and is one of Canada’s leading experts on Voltaire and his works.
- He is the North American correspondent for Société des études 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 received his undergraduate degree from Université Sainte-Anne, Nova Scotia's only French language university, in 1980.
- He earned his most advanced degree, a D.ès.L.
- (Doctor of Letters), from Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle in 1987.
- Langille’s contributions to scholarship and culture were acknowledged by the French Government in 2004, when he was named Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, as well as Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- On February 1, 2013, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to scholarship, education and culture.
- He also publishes under the name Édouard Langille.
