He then came to Canada for a Master Degree in French literature which he completed in 2005. It is during this academic year that he became interested in the Francophone Caribbean Literature and its relation to myths, spirituality and cultural memory.

He is currently in at the end of the second year of his PhD, working especially on the relations between history, memory and myths, but also on the relations between society and literature in the French Caribbean Islands , and on the consequences of slavery on cultural memory and especially its religious and spiritual aspects.

Sébastien's areas of study also include contemporary French literature, francophone and Anglophone science-fiction and fantastic literatures and magical realism

Abstract: Spirituality and slavery in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba sorcière… : from ritual adaptation to universal magic.