
Dr Melanie Maillot
Lecturer Level B French
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
My research interests include:
• 20th-century and 21st-century French and Francophone literature
• Poetry, 1850 to today
• Women's writing
• Bodily experiences and corporeality in literature
• Phenomenology and post-structuralism (Maurice Blanchot, Martin Heidegger, Roland Barthes)
• History, languages and literatures of regional France, particularly Alsace and Lorraine regions.
My first monograph project focuses on the poetry of French-Egyptian writer Andrée Chedid and Algerian poet Jeanne Benguigui. Its aim is to show how neutral writing ('écriture du neutre') is used to trigger a reflection on being and existence, thus making the poetic experience a form of meditation in itself. By proposing a textual analysis at the intersection of continental philosophy, eastern philosophy, and literary theory, it seeks to demonstrate that poetic writing and the reading of Chedidian and Benguiguian poetry generate and intensify self-reflection.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2022 - ongoing Lecturer in French Studies The University of Adelaide 2018 - 2021 French Tutor The University of Adelaide 2017 - 2018 French Tutor The University of South Australia -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2020 Award Women in French Graduate Travel Award Women in French United States 2019 Award Women in French Graduate Essay Award Women in French United States 2018 Award Australian Journal for French Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize Australian Society for French Studies Australia -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review French Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review German Can read and understand spoken Italian Can read, write, speak and understand spoken Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian Can read and understand spoken -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2021 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2018 Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne France Master's degree in Sociolinguistics and didactics of foreign languages 2017 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III France Master's degree in Comparative Literature 2015 Université de Strasbourg France Bachelor of Arts -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2021 Maillot, M. (2021). La poétique de la menstruation selon Emma Santos et Séverine Daucourt. Women in French Studies, 29(1), 32-45.
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(1), 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). Représentations de la mère nature: Une lecture écoféministe de la poésie de Jeanne Benguigui. Australian Journal of French Studies, 56(3), 335-347.
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.
Date | Project | Funding Body | Amount |
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2018 | Poetics of Neutrality and the Question of Being in the Poetic Work of Andrée Chedid and Jeanne Benguigui | Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (International) | $183,000 (Tuition Fee Offset + Stipend) |
Date | Course Title | Code |
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2022, Semester 1 | French IIA Language (intermediate) | FREN 2201 |
2022, Semester 1 | Beginners' French IA | FREN 1002 |
2022, Semester 2 | French IIB Language (intermediate) | FREN 2202 |
2022, Semester 2 | French IIB Culture (intermediate) | FREN 2204 |
2022, Semester 2 | Beginners' French IB | FREN 1003 |
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Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2022 - ongoing Member The Society for French Studies United Kingdom 2020 - ongoing Member British Comparative Literature Association United Kingdom 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 2018 - ongoing Project Manager of the Raining Poetry in Adelaide festival Public Community Engagement J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice Australia -
Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice
Date Title Type Institution Country 2021 - ongoing Co-Editor Editorial The Saltbush Review Australia
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