DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Hasheem Hakeem is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Coordinator of Elementary French. He holds a dual PhD in Education and French Studies from Simon Fraser University, with a focus on queer literature and theory.

In addition to his experience in assessment development with the British Columbia Ministry of Education, Hakeem has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses in French language and culture, including beginner and intermediate French, advanced grammar, composition, conversation, and an introduction to literary studies. At the University of Calgary, he was responsible for training and mentoring graduate student instructors as well as redesigning the French placement test. His pedagogical approach emphasizes teaching French through multimodal texts, fostering students’ critical literacy skills in both lower and upper-level language courses.

Hakeem is a member of the Steering Committee of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC) Collective as well as the Language Curricula and Gender Working Group at the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs.  

Hakeem’s research primarily focuses on queer and critical pedagogical approaches to French language teaching, discourse analysis, and minoritized instructor identity. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Arborescences, the McGill Journal of Education, la Revue des sciences de l’éducation, Voix plurielles, Cahiers franco-canadiens de l’Ouest, The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and Contemporary French Civilization. His forthcoming co-authored article (with a graduate student) details the curricular redesign of two 200-level grammar-based courses through an equity lens, aiming to create more sustainable French language and culture curricula for a broader audience.