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Fernande Saint-Martin was born in Montreal on March 28, 1927. She was educated at the University of Montreal where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in 1947 and a BA in philosophy in 1948 and completed her studies at McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies in 1951 and a master’s degree in French literature in 1952. In 1968, she wrote a thesis in art history that could not be filed because the university refused Program Ph.D.’s submitted by the art history department. However, she got a Ph.D in literature with a thesis on Samuel Beckett in 1973. From 1972 to 1977 she headed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal. She then taught at Laval University and in 1979, at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Fernande Saint-Martin was awarded the Molson Prize for her work in semiotics in 1989 and chaired the Women’s Circle and journalists Congress of French-Canadian writers. She is a member of the Canadian-French Academy since 1974, the Royal Society of Canada in 1982 and the Union of writers and Quebec writers. .
Fernande Saint-Martin on the Difference Between Semiotics and Visual Semiotics
