Nigel Spencer is a writer, translator, and professor of English living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
As Advisor to the Minister of Education of the Republic of Guinea, he was responsible for researching and re-instituting the teaching of English at the high school and university levels from 1985 to 1987.
Most of his career has been spent as a professor of English including: the State University of New York at Plattsburgh 2005; Champlain Regional College 1974–2006 (Co-ordinator of the first-year programme 1976–78, 1988–89).
Université de Sherbrooke (first known bilingual Comparative Canadian Dramaturgy course) 1976; Teaching Fellow, University College, University of Toronto 1968–71; Since 1997, he has worked increasingly as a translator of stories, poems, plays, songs and journalism: He has written the subtitles for numerous films including "A Season in the Life of Emmanuel", "Raoul Wallenberg:The Angel of Budapest", "Illuminations: Marie-Claire Blais" (in which he also appears), various documentaries for Bravo!
Évelyne de la Chenelière, Marie-Claire Blais, Alain Dubuc, Mario Bolduc, Time Magazine, Jacques Claessens, Pauline Michel, Jean-Pierre Rogel.