OUR TEAM
Our small full-time staff oversees production of the Festival and runs the Blue Metropolis Foundation’s social and educational programs. They’re assisted by external collaborators, freelance programmers for both the Festival and the educational programs, advisory committees made up of volunteer professionals, the all-important volunteers who work during the Festival, and of course the Board of Directors.
The Festival stages 200 activities in several languages every edition and offers year-round educational programs dedicated to fostering academic perseverance, the love of reading, and social harmony.

BLUE METROPOLIS IN-HOUSE STAFF
WILLIAM ST-HILAIRE
President – Executive Director and Artistic Director
MARIE-ANDRÉE LAMONTAGNE
Director General, Programming and Communications
DAVID BRADFORD
Programmer at Large and Strategic Consultant, Outreach
CÉLINE FERNANDES
Director, Communications and Digital Strategy – Deputee Director General
FRÉDÉRICK GAUDIN-LAURIN
Director, Educational Programming and Research, and Coordinator, Public Financing and Festivalgoer Services
FLORENCE FONTAINE
Programming Coordinator – Webmaster
MAÏLYSS CARVIN
Assistant – Programming & Operations
AYANA MONUMA
Programming Assistant
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS AND SERVICES
LINDA AMYOT Youth Programming
INGRID BEJERMAN Azul and Almemar Programming
SARAH HENZI Indigenous Literatures and English-Language Programming
MATHIEU LAUZON-DISCÖ Fantasy Literatures
HÉLÈNE BUGHIN Social media
FELIPE DEL POZO Media relations (French)
JANIS KIRSHNER Media relations (English)
KATHY NADAL Graphic Design and Artistic Direction
MARIO ALLAIRE Production
LAMBERT LAM-NGOC Website
NICOLAS FERRAZZA Infomation Technology (IT)
DUMONT ST-PIERRE INC. Accounting
VOLUNTEERS RESSOURCES:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
LOUISE-ANN MAZIAK Chair of the Board of Directors
KATHERINE NIKIDIS Vice-President of the Board of Directors,
Head of School, Trafalgar School for Girls
PIERRE-ANDRÉ THEMENS Secretary
Executive Vice Chair, Canadian Centre for Architecture
CHRISTOPHE ROUBINET Treasurer,
Director of Investments and Finances, Filaction
MÉLANIE BERNIER Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, PSP Investments
JOFFREY BIENVENUE CTO, Peerless Clothing Inc.
PETER DANIEL Director, Ilian Consulting and Management INC
YOUSSEF J. FICHTALI Associate, Watson Farley & Williams – Energy, Projects and Infrastructure
DR MAI-KIM GERVAIS Surgical Oncologist, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and Assistant Director, Department of Surgery, Université de Montréal
CLÉMENTINE SALLÉE Global Director, Legal, CPCS Transcom Limited
ANNE WHITELAW Provost and Vice-President, Academic, Concordia University
FRENCH-LANGUAGE
ADVISORY PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE – 2022 FESTIVAL
GUY BERTHIAUME Bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada émérite
OLIVIER BOISVERT Librairie Gallimard
SANDRO CAPELLI directeur, Institut culturel italien, Montréal
DOMINIQUE GARAND professeur, Département des littératures, UQAM, et écrivain
RABÉA KABBAJ attachée de presse Gallimard ltée
PASCALE LAPLANTE-DUBÉ doctorante, professeur de littérature, programmatrice invitée, série L’Imaginaire
MATHIEU LAUZON-DICSO libraire et programmateur invité, série L’Imaginaire
STÉPHANIE LEMÉTAIS Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois
TANIA MASSAULT Éditions Alto
ANNABELLE MIMOUNI agente de programmes éducatifs, Jardin Botanique de Montréal
SOPHIE MONTREUIL directrice générale, ACFAS
ROSTYSLAV NYEMTSEV traducteur
DENISE PÉRUSSE directrice, défis de société, Fonds de recherche du Québec
MONIQUE RÉGIMBALD-ZEIBER conseillère stratégique, Fonds de recherche du Québec
GILDA ROUTY Gallimard ltée
RODNEY SAINT-ÉLOI Écrivain et éditeur, président de Mémoire d’encrier
SIMONE SAUREN Flammarion Canada
DANIELLE SAUVAGE programmatrice invitée, série Âge
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
ADVISORY PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE – 2022 FESTIVAL
RACHEL BERGER, Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Development, The School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University
ALEXANDRA BÜCHLER Director, Literature across frontier/Llenyddiaeth Ar Draws Ffiniau
JASON CAMLOT Professor, Department of English, Concordia University
SIMON DARDICK Co-publisher, Véhicule Press
CHRISTOPHER DIRADDO Writer, Producer
CATHERINE EGO, vice-présidente pour le Québec, Association des traducteurs et des traductrices littéraires du Canada (ATTLC)
CAROLINE GAGNON Goethe Institute
LISA GOLDMAN Co-founder and Contributing Editor, +972 Magazine
PETER MANDELOS Director, Paragraphe Books
ELISE MOSER Writer, Editor
GUY RODGERS Founder, ELAN
LORI SCHUBERT Executive Director, Quebec Writers’ Federation
ROBERT SCHWARTZWALD Professeur au Département d’études anglaises, Université de Montréal
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE
PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE – 2022 FESTIVAL
CELESTE AFONSO, Ronda Leiria Poetry Festival
VICTOR ARMONY PhD, Sociologie, Université du Québec à Montréal
JAIME ABELLO BANFI, Centro Gabo, Cartagena de Indias
GABRIELA ADAMO, Fundación FILBA, Buenos Aires
MARTHA BÁTIZ PhD, Creative Writing in Spanish, University of Toronto
GINA BELTRÁN PhD, School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University
CARLOS BRACAMONTE, Revue Hispanophone
RAFAEL OSÍO CABRICES, Caracas Chronicles
JUAN CRUZ RUIZ, El País de Madrid
ALEJANDRO ESTIVILL Escritor, Cónsul General de México en Montreal
CRISTINA FUENTES LAROCHE, Hay Festival Americas
HUGH HAZELTON PhD, Modern Languages, Concordia University
LUZ MARÍA LEPE PhD, Estudios Amerindios y Educación Bilingüe, Universidad de Querétaro
PILAR LONDOÑO, Feria del libro de Bogotá
CLAUDIA NEIRA BERMÚDEZ. Centroamérica Cuenta
LAURA NIEMBRO, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara
CAROLINA ORLOFF, Charco Press
CLAUDIO PALOMARES-SALAS PhD, Hispanic Studies, Queens
FERNANDO PASCUAL, Publishers Weekly en Español
CECILY RAYNOR PhD, Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities, McGill University
CYNTHIA RODRÍGUEZ, UpaUpa Español
GINNY STIKEMAN, Premio Azul
CECILIA SZPERLING, Nosotras Proponemos, INADI
VICTORIA TORRES PhD, Romanisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln
JOSÉ-ANTONIO VILLALOBOS SARRIA, Colectivo Imagina
THANKS TO THE BLUE METROPOLIS FOUNDATION’S MAJOR PARTNERS WHO SUPPORT THE 2022 FESTIVAL AND OUR 2021-2022 EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS
MERCI AUX PARTENAIRES MAJEURS DE LA FONDATION METROPOLIS BLEU QUI SOUTIENNENT LE FESTIVAL 2022 ET NOS PROGRAMMES ÉDUCATIFS ET SOCIAUX 2021-2022






