Melanie Maillot
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
French tutor and Ph.D. candidate in French Studies.
My thesis focuses on poetics of neutrality and the question of Being in the complete poetic work of two Francophone writers, Andrée Chedid and Jeanne Benguigui, respectively Franco-Egyptian and Algerian. I am supervised by Associate Professor Natalie Edwards and Dr Peter Poiana.
My research interests include poetry of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, women's writing, philosophy (particularly Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot and post-structuralism), feminist theory, ecocriticism and animal/vegan studies.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2018 French Tutor The University of Adelaide 2017 - 2018 French Instructor The University of South Australia -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2020 Award Adelaide Graduate Award The University of Adelaide Australia — 2020 Award Women in French Graduate Student Travel Award Women in French United States — 2019 Award Women in French Graduate Student Essay Award Women in French United States — 2018 Achievement AJFS Postgraduate Prize Australian Society for French Studies Australia — 2018 Scholarship Awardee of the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship The University of Adelaide Australia — -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak and understand spoken French Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review German Can read Italian Can read, write, speak and understand spoken -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2018 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2016 - 2018 Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne France Master's degree in Sociolinguistics and didactics of foreign languages 2015 - 2017 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III France Master's degree in Comparative Literature 2012 - 2015 Université de Strasbourg France Bachelor of Arts -
Certifications
Date Title Institution name Country 2015 Computing and Internet Certification (C2i) University of Strasbourg France -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2020 Maillot, M. (2020). Réflexion métaphysique en lien aux représentations non-normatives du corps dans les poèmes d’Andrée Chedid et de Jeanne Benguigui. Women in French Studies, 28, 59-69.
2020 Maillot, M. (2020). L’univers de la prédation dans La vraie vie d’Adeline Dieudonné: une matérialisation des valeurs socioculturelles constitutives de la pensée spéciste. Zizanie, 4(1), 82-101. 2019 Maillot, M. (2019). La plage comme espace de l’écriture intime dans La vie pieds nus d’Alan Pauls. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 29(1), 19-40. 2019 Maillot, M. (2019). Representations of mother nature: An ecofeminist reading of the poetry of Jeanne Benguigui. Australian Journal of French Studies, 56(3), 335-347.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2020 Maillot, M. (2020). Écrire selon les règles : la menstruation comme mode d’écriture chez Emma Santos. In South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Jacksonville, Florida, USA. 2020 Maillot, M. (2020). Déconnexion entre le corps et le sujet dans les poèmes d’Andrée Chedid et de Jeanne Benguigui. In Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference. Online. 2019 Maillot, M. (2019). Non-normative representations of the body in the poems of Andrée Chedid and Jeanne Benguigui. In University of Adelaide Arts Postgraduate Research Conference. University of Adelaide, Adelaide. 2019 Maillot, M. (2019). Bon sang! Représentations littéraires de la menstruation comme protestation. In Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference. University of New England, Sydney. 2018 Maillot, M. (2018). Ecoféminisme dans la poésie de Jeanne Benguigui. In Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference. University of Western Australia, Perth. -
Theses
Year Citation 2018 Maillot, M. (2018). Ecriture créative et interculturalité dans l'enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère en Australie. (Master's Thesis, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France). 2017 Maillot, M. (2017). Faust en scène chez Goethe, Gounod et Sayers : expression et création de la morale dans les arts du spectacle. (Master's Thesis, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, France).
Awardee of the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
- French IB, Online Summer School (2021)
- French for Viticulture and Oenology students (2020)
- French IB (2019, 2020)
- French IA (2019, 2020)
- Culture class on Australiana literature by French writers (2020)
- Culture class on autobiography (2019)
- French IISB: Language Laboratory (2018)
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Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2020 - ongoing Member British Comparative Literature Association United Kingdom 2020 - ongoing Member South Atlantic Modern Language Association United States 2020 - ongoing Member Women in French Association United States 2018 - ongoing Member Australian Society for French Studies Australia -
Community Engagement
Date Title Engagement Type Institution Country 2020 - ongoing Community Volunteer Public Community Engagement Australian Refugee Association Australia 2020 - ongoing Volunteer Translator Public Community Engagement Ted Translators — 2018 - ongoing Project Associate - Raining Poetry in Adelaide Public Community Engagement J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice Australia
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