Sophie Bastien has been teaching for more than thirty years and joined RMC in 2004, after working at Trent University (Peterborough) and the Université de Montréal, where she received her PhD in 2002.
Most of her specialized courses focus on 20th-century French literature: the dramatic and narrative genres, and the Surrealist and Absurdist movements. She also teaches poetry: French poetry from the Middle Ages, Quebec poetry from its origins, and 20th-century poetry in French. As for her survey courses, they address literature in France since the 17th century and in Quebec since the 19th century.
She published a collection of poetry with the Quebec publisher L'instant même: Je viens d'un long silence (2025), edited the dossier entitled La Scène surréaliste published in L'Annuaire théâtral (no. 59, 2016), and co-edited four collective works: Postérité d'Albert Camus (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024), Camus, l'artiste (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015), Le Surréalisme et les arts du spectacle (Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2014), and La Passion du théâtre. Camus à la scène (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2011). Her monograph Caligula et Camus. Interférences transhistoriques won in 2007 the prize from the Association des professeurs de français des universités canadiennes.
She also has seventy journal articles and book chapters to her credit, and has co-organized numerous colloquia. She has served as an adjudicator for federal and provincial granting agencies, international journals, scholarly associations, and universities in Canada, the USA, and abroad. She also is an active member of significant professional associations, and was the president of the Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET) from 2015 to 2018.