2007
B.A. in Literary Studies
Completed at Universite Laval with training in textual analysis and interpretive method.
About
Martin Lepage is a Montreal-based institutional analyst, AI governance strategist, and writer working where institutional design, public meaning, and operational accountability meet.
His academic formation spans 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. That trajectory trained close reading, conceptual discipline, and sensitivity to how categories shape what institutions can see.
He has also worked in research operations, archives, AI-assisted quality evaluation, and clinical trial coordination. These roles demanded audit-ready documentation, multi-stakeholder judgment under pressure, and defensible decision pathways. The governance practice is grounded in that operational reality, not in abstract policy language alone.
The through-line is legitimacy: how authority becomes credible, how systems distribute consequence, and how language can either clarify or conceal responsibility. The work treats governance as a lived relation between decision, evidence, institution, and affected people.
Martin Lepage
Governance strategist and writer. PhD, Religious Sciences. Working across institutions, language, and consequence.
Current work
Current work focuses on institutional analysis, AI governance systems, public writing, and autodidact app development for decision traceability and documentation workflows.
Research and practice interests
Timeline
From literary and religious studies to archives, clinical coordination, and AI governance implementation.
2007
Completed at Universite Laval with training in textual analysis and interpretive method.
2009
Graduate work at Universite Laval focused on symbolic and archetypal representation in narrative forms.
2010-2017
Contributed to teaching and research across sociology, sexology, and religious studies at UQAM.
2017
Completed at UQAM with doctoral research on queer ritual negotiations in Montreal neopagan communities.
2019-2021
Worked in preservation workflows where archival control, classification, and retrieval discipline were central.
2022
Evaluated AI-assisted customer service systems for escalation quality, judgment consistency, and output reliability.
2023-2025
Led research-support and documentation workflows at Clinique medicale L'Actuel in Montreal.
2025-2026
Integrated high-compliance trial operations with governance design, risk framing, and decision documentation.
Contact
Email is the clearest channel. A concise first message with your context, objective, and timeline usually produces the fastest useful reply.
Inquiry path
For governance architecture, evidence design, escalation pathways, and institutional accountability work.
Inquiry path
For conferences, panels, workshops, and guest lectures on governance, legitimacy, culture, and institutional analysis.
Inquiry path
For commissioned essays, interviews, book conversations, editorial collaboration, and media requests.
Inquiry path
For publication dialogue, collaborative research, scholarly outreach, and archive-related inquiries.