Professor Denis M. Provencher is Professor and Head in the Department of French and Italian and affiliate faculty in Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for LGBT Studies, Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998. Dr. Provencher is the author of two monographs, Queer French (Ashgate, 2007) and Queer Maghrebi French (Liverpool, 2017) and is editor-in-chief of the journal Contemporary French Civilization.