Québec Mobile Literature: literary writing and reading practices in digital context (QML) is a partenership development funded by the SSHRC involving Université du Québec à Montréal (Bertrand Gervais), Université Laval (René Audet), Concordia University (Sophie Marcotte), Marcello Vitali-Rosati (Université de Montréal), Alexandra Saemmer (Université Paris-VIII), TOPO - Laboratoire d'écritures numériques, Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (UNEQ) and the Maison de la littérature of the Québec Canadian Institue. Amongst other contributors, we count Montréal's public Librarie, the National Association of Book Publishers (ANEL); Spirale and Radio Spirale; Rhizome Productions; bleuOrange and the Blue Metropolis Foundation.
QML seeks to increase our comprehension of the actual forms of Québec literature's mobility and to insure its visibility on new platforms while consolidating the digital turn of literary writing and reading practices. It is a connexion project that tries to increase accessibility and use of knowledge produced by researchers from uniiversities, literary communities (readers and writers) and the book sector.
The researcehrs involved are: Bertrand Gervais, UQAM (principal researcher); Sophie Marcotte, Université Concordia (coresearcher); René Audet, Université Laval (coresearcher); Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Université de Montréal (coresearcher).
The project coordinator is Benoit Bordeleau.