About

Scholar, writer, and governance strategist.

Martin Lepage is a Montreal-based scholar, writer, and AI governance strategist. His work brings together AI governance, research, and public writing.

His academic background includes ritual studies, queer theory, media analysis, digital culture, and contemporary spiritualities. He completed a PhD in Religious Sciences at Universite du Quebec a Montreal after earlier degrees in literary studies at Universite Laval.

He has also worked in research operations, archives, AI-assisted quality review, and clinical trial coordination. That mix helps him understand complex institutions while still making documentation useful and practical.

Today his work connects governance, media, and authorship through a shared concern: how legitimacy is built, how authority is explained, and how people live with those systems once they are in place.

Portrait of Martin Lepage

Martin Lepage

Working across ritual studies, media analysis, public writing, and legitimacy-focused systems thinking.

Current work

Current work.

Current work includes AI governance, research on ritual and media, and books in progress.

Research and professional interests

  • AI governance and decision traceability
  • Digital culture, platform ritual, and enchantment
  • Queer theory, gender, and legitimacy
  • Ritual studies and symbolic systems
  • Media analysis, postfeminism, and television
  • Experimental authorship and essay practice

Timeline

How this work took shape.

A short path through study, research, and operations work.

2007

B.A. in Literary Studies

Completed at Universite Laval.

2009

M.A. in Literary Studies

Graduate work at Universite Laval on symbolic and archetypal representations.

2010-2017

Research and Teaching Assistant

Contributed to teaching and research across sociology, sexology, and religious studies at UQAM.

2017

PhD in Religious Sciences

Completed at UQAM with doctoral research on queer ritual negotiations in Montreal neopagan communities.

2019-2021

National Film Board of Canada

Worked in materials and preservation, with an archival and systems-focused workflow.

2022

Lead Quality Evaluator

Assessed AI-assisted customer service environments, escalation logic, and output reliability.

2023-2025

Clinical and Academic Research Coordination

Led research-support and documentation workflows at Clinique medicale L'Actuel in Montreal.

2025-2026

Clinical Trial Coordination and Governance Practice

Combined high-compliance trial operations with AI governance framing, risk mapping, and decision documentation.

Contact

For governance work, research, talks, or editorial work.

Email is the easiest way to reach Martin. The links below point to the wider public profile.

Direct

Best fits

  • AI governance and documentation work
  • Editorial, interview, and media requests
  • Talks, guest lectures, and panels
  • Research collaborations and publication conversations