Julie Paquette

Julie Paquette is Associate Professor and Director of the Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation in the Faculties of Human Sciences and Philosophy at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. She holds a PhD in Political Thought and specializes in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her research explores the intersections of ethics, art, and politics and is organized around three main areas: new forms of fascism, states of exception, and scandal studies / freedom of expression. She is currently leading a research project funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant (2024–2029), entitled How Can We Adapt Our Engagement to the Present Times? Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Ethics of Abjuration as a Technology of the Self . Her publications include the volume Arts, entre libertés et scandales : études de cas, co-edited with Emmanuelle Sirois and Ève Lamoureux (Nota Bene, 2020). She has also published numerous articles on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thought