Women in French Australia
@wifaustralia.bsky.social
Uniting a community of researchers working on French and Francophone women authors, feminist literary criticism and gender studies in Australia and beyond.
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🎉 Join us for WiF Australia’s End-of-Year Research Showcase & Celebration!
📅 Friday, 28 Nov | 🕓 4–6 PM AEDT | 🌐 Online
🤝 Connect, collaborate & celebrate with colleagues!
✅ Everyone welcome!
DM to receive joining link.
📅 Friday, 28 Nov | 🕓 4–6 PM AEDT | 🌐 Online
🤝 Connect, collaborate & celebrate with colleagues!
✅ Everyone welcome!
DM to receive joining link.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🎉 Join us for WiF Australia’s End-of-Year Research Showcase & Celebration!
📅 Friday, 28 Nov | 🕓 4–6 PM AEDT | 🌐 Online
🤝 Connect, collaborate & celebrate with colleagues!
✅ Everyone welcome!
DM to receive joining link.
📅 Friday, 28 Nov | 🕓 4–6 PM AEDT | 🌐 Online
🤝 Connect, collaborate & celebrate with colleagues!
✅ Everyone welcome!
DM to receive joining link.
🎃 Halloween Special Alert!
In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror.
Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation!
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In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror.
Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation!
🔗 womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
Positionalities Podcast
Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …
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October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🎃 Halloween Special Alert!
In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror.
Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation!
🔗 womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror.
Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation!
🔗 womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
🎉 We invite you to our end-of-year online research showcase & celebration!
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: [email protected]
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: [email protected]
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🎉 We invite you to our end-of-year online research showcase & celebration!
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: [email protected]
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: [email protected]
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase
🎓 Join us for the next WiF Oz Work-in-Progress Seminar
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🎓 Join us for the next WiF Oz Work-in-Progress Seminar
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...
We are thrilled to invite you to the roundtable "La délicatesse comme ruse pour habiter le monde et la planète en écosensibilité?"
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We are thrilled to invite you to the roundtable "La délicatesse comme ruse pour habiter le monde et la planète en écosensibilité?"
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom
🎙️ New podcast episode alert!
Dr Pooja Booluck-Miller speaks with Dr. Julie Fette about her book Gender by the Book, exploring how 21st-century French children’s literature reflects and resists gender norms. Check it out on our website: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
Dr Pooja Booluck-Miller speaks with Dr. Julie Fette about her book Gender by the Book, exploring how 21st-century French children’s literature reflects and resists gender norms. Check it out on our website: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
Positionalities Podcast
Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🎙️ New podcast episode alert!
Dr Pooja Booluck-Miller speaks with Dr. Julie Fette about her book Gender by the Book, exploring how 21st-century French children’s literature reflects and resists gender norms. Check it out on our website: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
Dr Pooja Booluck-Miller speaks with Dr. Julie Fette about her book Gender by the Book, exploring how 21st-century French children’s literature reflects and resists gender norms. Check it out on our website: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...
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Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer
Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on navigating academia, building international connections, and finding your voice in the early stages of your career. Many thanks to @awimbush.bsky.social @josiegoldman.bsky.social @besskearney.bsky.social and Pooja Booluck-Miller for a great conversation!
Great to speak on the @wifaustralia.bsky.social Positionalities podcast about navigating the ECR stage & cultivating community. Thanks to the wonderful hosts Pooja Booluck-Miller, @josiegoldman.bsky.social & @besskearney.bsky.social
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Positionalities Podcast
Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on navigating academia, building international connections, and finding your voice in the early stages of your career. Many thanks to @awimbush.bsky.social @josiegoldman.bsky.social @besskearney.bsky.social and Pooja Booluck-Miller for a great conversation!
Wonderful discussion on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century' led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social and Dan Finch-Race as part of our WiP seminar series! Thank you very much to our speakers and attendees 😊
June 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wonderful discussion on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century' led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social and Dan Finch-Race as part of our WiP seminar series! Thank you very much to our speakers and attendees 😊
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A great start to the @wifaustralia.bsky.social work-in-progress seminar on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century', led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social & Daniel Finch-Race!
June 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A great start to the @wifaustralia.bsky.social work-in-progress seminar on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century', led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social & Daniel Finch-Race!
📢Women in French Australia Work-in-Progress Seminar Series 📢
We are delighted to host the roundtable discussion ‘French Women Writing Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century’ led by Daniel Finch-Race and @christiesmbc.bsky.social on 17 June 09am (BST), 6pm (AEST), 8pm (NZST) on Teams!
We are delighted to host the roundtable discussion ‘French Women Writing Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century’ led by Daniel Finch-Race and @christiesmbc.bsky.social on 17 June 09am (BST), 6pm (AEST), 8pm (NZST) on Teams!
May 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📢Women in French Australia Work-in-Progress Seminar Series 📢
We are delighted to host the roundtable discussion ‘French Women Writing Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century’ led by Daniel Finch-Race and @christiesmbc.bsky.social on 17 June 09am (BST), 6pm (AEST), 8pm (NZST) on Teams!
We are delighted to host the roundtable discussion ‘French Women Writing Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century’ led by Daniel Finch-Race and @christiesmbc.bsky.social on 17 June 09am (BST), 6pm (AEST), 8pm (NZST) on Teams!
📣 Call for proposals 📣
We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists!
More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists!
More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
CFPs, EOIs & News
Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…
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April 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣 Call for proposals 📣
We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists!
More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists!
More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
Women in French Australia stands in solidarity with @cumodernlanguages.bsky.social. See our open letter here:
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
CFPs, EOIs & News
Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Women in French Australia stands in solidarity with @cumodernlanguages.bsky.social. See our open letter here:
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
Many congratulations to our International Liaison co-Officer @wimbush_antonia for the upcoming publication of her book 🥳!
Delighted that my monograph BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives is now in press & published in April with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Available for pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bumidom.... A huge thank you to @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding my project on the BUMIDOM!
BUMIDOM (1963–1982) and its Afterlives
BUMIDOM (1963–1982) and its Afterlives
edinburghuniversitypress.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Many congratulations to our International Liaison co-Officer @wimbush_antonia for the upcoming publication of her book 🥳!
Félicitations to our Communication co-officer, Dr Charlotte Mackay (Monash University), for the publication of her monograph Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome with #PeterLang 🥳!
February 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Félicitations to our Communication co-officer, Dr Charlotte Mackay (Monash University), for the publication of her monograph Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome with #PeterLang 🥳!
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Our special February issue L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels, guest-edited by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Our special February issue L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels, guest-edited by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Delighted to share news of a free in-person workshop I've co-organised in May at the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) to discuss the need for explicitly antifascist pedagogies against the rising tide of far-right support and what that practice would look like.
Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...
Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...
Developing Anti-Fascist Pedagogies
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
February 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Delighted to share news of a free in-person workshop I've co-organised in May at the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) to discuss the need for explicitly antifascist pedagogies against the rising tide of far-right support and what that practice would look like.
Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...
Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...
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Ravie de la publication de ce numéro spécial de @francemodern.bsky.social! Les articles explorent les récits littéraires et filmiques d'avortement de la Belle Epoque à la période contemporaine, ainsi qu'une BD militante des années 1970...
Our special February issue L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels, guest-edited by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ravie de la publication de ce numéro spécial de @francemodern.bsky.social! Les articles explorent les récits littéraires et filmiques d'avortement de la Belle Epoque à la période contemporaine, ainsi qu'une BD militante des années 1970...
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Read now:
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
@emmacayley.bsky.social
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
@emmacayley.bsky.social
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Read now:
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
@emmacayley.bsky.social
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
@emmacayley.bsky.social
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In 2025, we’ll bring you a wealth of new material including:
· A special issue on abortion in February.
· A special issue on the BUMIDOM in August.
· A special section on Le Manifeste conspirationniste, in May t.co/Zne5lZ6xEK @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
· A special issue on abortion in February.
· A special issue on the BUMIDOM in August.
· A special section on Le Manifeste conspirationniste, in May t.co/Zne5lZ6xEK @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/current
t.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
In 2025, we’ll bring you a wealth of new material including:
· A special issue on abortion in February.
· A special issue on the BUMIDOM in August.
· A special section on Le Manifeste conspirationniste, in May t.co/Zne5lZ6xEK @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
· A special issue on abortion in February.
· A special issue on the BUMIDOM in August.
· A special section on Le Manifeste conspirationniste, in May t.co/Zne5lZ6xEK @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined.
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
November 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM
So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined.
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
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A truly fantastic #ASFS2024 so far! Thanks to all the organisers at the University of Melbourne inc. our very own @wifaustralia.bsky.social @awimbush.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 1:16 AM
A truly fantastic #ASFS2024 so far! Thanks to all the organisers at the University of Melbourne inc. our very own @wifaustralia.bsky.social @awimbush.bsky.social
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Follow @wifaustralia.bsky.social ! 🌟
We are delighted to launch our new WiF OZ podcast, hosted by Josephine Goldman and @besskearney.bsky.social 😊!
In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here:
open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...
In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here:
open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...
WiF Australia Podcast
Podcast · WIF Australia · The Women in French Australia podcast is a space for open conversations about feminist criticism, gender studies, and the French-speaking world. It is hosted by early career ...
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December 1, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Follow @wifaustralia.bsky.social ! 🌟
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The call for nominations for the Malcom Bowie Prize, for the best article published in 2024 by an ECR in the broader discipline of French Studies, is now open and will close on 27 February 2025. 🖇️📚
For more information see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...
For more information see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...
Malcolm Bowie Prize
The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.
www.sfs.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 11:53 AM
The call for nominations for the Malcom Bowie Prize, for the best article published in 2024 by an ECR in the broader discipline of French Studies, is now open and will close on 27 February 2025. 🖇️📚
For more information see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...
For more information see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...
We are delighted to launch our new WiF OZ podcast, hosted by Josephine Goldman and @besskearney.bsky.social 😊!
In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here:
open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...
In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here:
open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...
WiF Australia Podcast
Podcast · WIF Australia · The Women in French Australia podcast is a space for open conversations about feminist criticism, gender studies, and the French-speaking world. It is hosted by early career ...
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:12 PM
We are delighted to launch our new WiF OZ podcast, hosted by Josephine Goldman and @besskearney.bsky.social 😊!
In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here:
open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...
In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here:
open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...