Axis “Language, belonging, and plurilingualism”

Sherry Simon

Associate member

Portrait de Sherry SimonAffiliation

Full Professor, Department of French Studies (Concordia University)

Research interests

Translation;linguistic and culturalhybridity; French-English miscegenation in Montreal; cities in translation, history of Mont Royal

Contact information


1400, Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Office S-LB 639-3
Montreal (QC), Canada H3G 1M8
Phone: (514) 848-2424, ext. 7507

sherry.simon [at] concordia.ca (> Email)

Ongoing projects and recent publications


  • Promenades Polyglottes. Le mont Royal et ses langues. Collection Photons, Figura. 2023
  • "Les villes habsbourg 1880-1945, sous l’angle de la traduction"
  • "Recherches sur la langue arabe à Montréal"
  • Promenades Polyglottes. Le mont Royal et ses langues. Collection Photons, Figura. 2023.

Selected publications


Sherry Simon.Translation sites: A Field Guide.Routledge. 2019.

Sherry Simon (dir.).Speaking Memory. How Translation Shapes City Life, Montréal, 鶹-Queen͛s University Press, 2016.

Sherry Simon. "Afficher la langue dans l’art public", in Marc-André Brouillette (dir.),Des textes dans l’espace public / Words in Public Space, Montréal, Éditions du Passage, 2014, p. 68-77 and 143-146.

Sherry Simon. "Introduction", in Michael Cronin (dir.),Translation Studies, vol. VII, n° 2, 2014, p. 119-132.

Sherry Simon. "The City in Translation: «Urban Cultures of Central Europe» ", in Elke Brems, Reine Meylaerts and Luc van Doorslaer (dir.),Known Unknowns of Translation Studies, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2014, p. 155-171.

Sherry Simon. "Yiddish and Multilingual Urban Space in Montreal", in Laurence Roth et Nadia Valman (dirs.),The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures, London / New York, Routledge, 2014, p. 272-285.

Sherry Simon.Villes en traduction: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelone et Montréal, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2013.

Sherry Simon.Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory, New York, Routledge, 2011.

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