Virginie Martel has been a professor of education (social studies didactics) at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Lévis campus, since 2005. She is mainly interested in didactic issues related to reading/literacy and the various learning sources that enable informative and narrative documents to be treated with critical distance in the history classroom. She co-founded LIMIER (www.lelimier.com), a research group on illustrated literacy (traditional and digital). She is also an associate researcher at CRIPFE and a member of the Groupe de recherche en littératie médiatique multimodale (www.litmedmod.ca) and the Chaire de recherche UQAM en LMM.
