Chris was born and raised in the Cardiff docks area of Wales, one of the oldest multicultural areas of the UK. He grew up speaking English and Welsh, and at age nine began to learn French. Thereafter, he has studied and developed differing levels of competence in several other languages, including Spanish and Wolof, with which he occasionally works. He went to the University of Bath to study a BA in Modern Languages and European Studies, and as part of his degree lived in Italy and France. Upon graduation, he moved to the US to pursue graduate study. Following his first year of work at Graduate School there, Northwestern University sponsored him to undergo an extensive study program in Senegal, which became the focus of his... Read more
About me
Chris was born and raised in the Cardiff docks area of Wales, one of the oldest multicultural areas of the UK. He grew up speaking English and Welsh, and at age nine began to learn French. Thereafter, he has studied and developed differing levels of competence in several other languages, including Spanish and Wolof, with which he occasionally works. He went to the University of Bath to study a BA in Modern Languages and European Studies, and as part of his degree lived in Italy and France. Upon graduation, he moved to the US to pursue graduate study. Following his first year of work at Graduate School there, Northwestern University sponsored him to undergo an extensive study program in Senegal, which became the focus of his doctoral thesis. He obtained his PhD in French (and Italian) in 2005 from Northwestern, and began working in a New York City liberal arts college soon after. In 2011 he decided to move to Australia, and in 2012 began a role as Lecturer of French in the University of South Australia. He is now a member of UniSA: Creative, where he has taught and co-ordinatesd courses in the Creative Writing and Literature major within the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Creative Industries degrees. He has published especially on the intersection of literature from France, Italy and Senegal. Alongside Professor Natalie Edwards of the University of Adelaide, he is a prolific editor; they have now published ten different books and special issues of journals together (most recently with Journal of Australian Studies and Journal of Literary Mutlilingualism). On January 1, 2019 they began work as joint Chief Investigators on a three-year (later extended to five) Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project (190102863) entitled "Transnational Selves. French Narratives of Migration to Australia". In 2020, he was awarded fellowships at Cardiff University's School of Modern Languages and Translation and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London's School of Advanced Study. He is currently a member of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at UniSA. His monograph Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego appeared in October 2022 in Routledge's Auto/Biography Studies series.
About me
Australian Society for French Studies,Society for French Studies (UK),American Association for Teachers of Italian (AATI),African Literature Association (North America), International Auto/Biography Association (IABA)
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Doctor of Philosophy in French and Italian Northwestern University
Bachelor of Arts in European Studies University of Bath UK
Lecturer in French, Italian and English: Northwestern University (2000-2005).
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature: Wagner College, NYC (2006-2011)
Lecturer of French: University of South Australia (2012-2017)
Lecturer of Comparative Literary Studies (specialization in Francophone, Anglophone, Italian) (2017- 2019)
Senior Lecturer in Literature (2020-present)
French Life Writing about Australia.Travel Writing in French. Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa (especially Senegal),Africans in Francophone and Italophone Literature, Francophone Intellectual History, MIgration in World Literature, French Studies (especially issues surrounding Gender and Autobiography),Postcolonial Studies (Francophone, Italophone and Anglophone),Italian Studies,Comparative Literature
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Transnational Selves: French narratives of migration to Australia, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022
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Entries on five Senegalese intellectuals (Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Alioune Diop, Abdoulaye Sadji, Ousmane Socé Diop and David Mandessi Diop) in the highly-renowned Dictionary of African Biography, edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075
Research
French Life Writing about Australia.Travel Writing in French. Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa (especially Senegal),Africans in Francophone and Italophone Literature, Francophone Intellectual History, MIgration in World Literature, French Studies (especially issues surrounding Gender and Autobiography),Postcolonial Studies (Francophone, Italophone and Anglophone),Italian Studies,Comparative Literature
Visiting Scholar at the School of Modern Languages and Translation, Cardiff University, February-April, 2020 https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/modern-languages
VIsiting Fellow at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, April-June 2020 https://www.sas.ac.uk/institutes/institute-modern-languages-research
Vice-President of the Australian Society for French Studies, 2017-2019.
Treasurer of the Australian Society for French Studies, 2019-present
https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/about/executive-committee/
Chair of Organizing Committee for 2016 Australian Society for French Studies annual conference hosted inaugurally by UniSA, entitled "Mobilities and Migrations/Les flux migratoires" and which received funding from the Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/events/previous-asfs-conferences/
http://www.unisa.edu.au/Research/Hawke-EU-Centre-for-Mobilities-Migrations-and-Cultural-Transformations/News/Media-Release3/#.WmlNlkux-u4
http://www.unisa.edu.au/Research/Hawke-EU-Centre-for-Mobilities-Migrations-and-Cultural-Transformations/News/Media-Release31/#.WubIxUHfHYU
External engagement & recognition
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Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Bristol | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Connecticut | UNITED STATES |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Wagner College | UNITED STATES |
External engagement & recognition
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AssessorAustralian Research Council Discovery |
2021 |
AssessorAustralian Research Council Discovery |
2020 |
International Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Modern Languages ResearchUniversity of London |
2020 |
Invited Guest LecturerCardiff University |
2020 |
Invited Speaker to an Established Lecture ProgramUniversity of Bath |
2020 |
Vice President/TreasurerAustralian Society for French Studies |
2020 |
International Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Modern Languages ResearchUniversity of London |
2019 |
Invited Guest LecturerCardiff University |
2019 |
Invited Speaker to an Established Lecture ProgramUniversity of Bath |
2019 |
Invited Speaker to an Established Lecture ProgramUniversity of South Hampton |
2019 |
Invited Speaker to an Established Lecture ProgramUniversity of Puerto Rico (Mayaguez) |
2019 |
Vice President/TreasurerAustralian Society for French Studies |
2019 |
Visiting FellowshipInstitute for Modern Languages Research (IMLR) |
2019 |
Invited Guest LecturerCardiff University |
2018 |
MemberInternational Auto/Biography Association (IABA) |
2018 |
MemberSociety for French Studies, United Kingdom |
2018 |
MemberAmerican Association for Teachers of Italian (AATI) |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Society for French Studies (Vice-President) |
2018 |
MemberSociety for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, United Kingdom |
2018 |
MemberAfrican Literature Association (North America) |
2018 |
MemberLife Narrative Research Group, Flinders University |
2018 |
MemberAssociation of Professional Italianists (South Africa) |
2018 |
Vice President/TreasurerAustralian Society for French Studies |
2018 |
Vice President/TreasurerAustralian Society for French Studies |
2017 |
World Literature. Comparative Literature. Literary Theory. French Language. French and Francophone Literature. Italian Language/Literature. African Literature.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
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New adult: marketing ploy or crucial contribution to the romance genre | Current |
Translating liberal colonialism through Carlo Lucarelli¿s Albergo Italia | Current |
Who is the Anthropos? Writing an existentialist novel in the Anthropocene | Current |
Practicing allyship through writing: challenges of intersectionality in young adult fiction featuring LGBTQIA+ stories | Completed |
Talking about family photographs and the Australian Baby Boomers' legacy. Opening the shoeboxes: snapshots, memories and narratives | Completed |
The abject and affective body: écriture féminine in Enright's novels | Completed |
Unmasking the provocatrix: engaging the clandestine literacies of l'écriture kinesthésique to neuroqueer creative writing research | Completed |
Unveiling the subaltern: an investigation through recent Iranian women's writing | Completed |
Violets, white feathers and the sisterhood of peace: South Australian women's activism in World War One | Completed |
Voices in the vines/peeling the layers: exploring hybrid ethnography | Completed |