Robert Schwartzwald is a professor at the Universite de Montreal and taught for many years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas for the Five Colleges. He has written extensively on Quebec literature and film, with a particular focus on the representations of sexuality in narratives of national and cultural modernity. He is a member of the Centre de Recherche interuniversitaire sur la litterature et la culture quebecoises (CRILCQ) and a former Editor of the American journal Quebec Studies. He was the 2008 recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies.