Natalie Edwards

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Natalie Edwards is an award-winning teacher, researcher and supervisor in French and Francophone literature. She specialises in transnational and migrant literature, multilingual writing and women's writing.

She has published 3 monographs, 12 edited volumes and over 40 journal articles and book chapters on contemporary literature in French. She currently holds an ARC DP in transnational French-Australian literature. She has also published on pedagogical innovations in languages, in both undergraduate curricula and postgraduate research.

Natalie is former Acting Head of School of Humanities, former Deputy Dean, Research, for the Faculty of Arts, and former Deputy Dean, People and Culture, for the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics at the University of Adelaide. She served 2015-2021 as Director of Graduate Studies for Arts, overseeing approximately 350 PhD and MPhil students in Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Music. She won the Australian Council for Graduate Research's 2020 Graduate Research Leadership Award for her innovations in this area.

Natalie is currently President of the Australian Society for French Studies. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of PMLA.

She teaches all levels of French language and courses in Contemporary French and Francophone literature and culture. She is an expert in digital approaches to teaching, which was recognised by the Stephen Cole the Elder Award (the University of Adelaide's premier teaching award), a national-level Australian Award for University Teaching, and Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

My Research
Career
Publications
Grants and Funding
Teaching
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Professional Activities
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My current projects include:

Transnational Selves: French Narratives of Migration to Australia (ARC DP 2019-2021)

This project investigates the history of French-language writing by migrants to Australia. It explores literature written by migrants from the 19^th century to the present day in order to write the history of this significant body of literature. This project aims to generate new understandings of how migrant writers construct identity in a language different from the main language of their host nation, and to highlight the complexity and multiplicity of Australian identity. Click here to view the project website. Funded by the Australian Research Council.

The Future of the Humanities PhD

This project examines the ways in which the PhD is being reimagined in the Humanities. As Judith Butler recently wrote in an article entitled 'The Future of Humanities PhDs,' "too many of us remain attached to an academic culture that reproduces the same graduate curriculum and training without regard for the shrinking academic market that awaits most of our students." This volume brings together scholars who have innovated graduate research pedagogy: creating opportunities for internships, public humanities projects and industry engagement, and developing innovative approaches to the PhD thesis and to components of research training.

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2021 - ongoing	Professor of French	University of Adelaide
2017 - ongoing	Associate Professor of French Studies	University of Adelaide
2014 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer in French Studies	University of Adelaide
2012 - ongoing	Lecturer in French Studies	University of Adelaide
2005 - 2012	Assistant-Associate Professor of French	Wagner College

Awards and Achievements

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
2020	Award	Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership	Australian Council for Graduate Research	Australia	$3,000
2018	Fellowship	Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy	Advance HE	United Kingdom	-
2018	Fellowship	Society for French Studies UK Visiting International Fellowship	Society for French Studies UK	United Kingdom	-
2016	Research Award	Women's Research Excellence Award	-	-	$5,000
2016	Teaching Award	Australian Award for University Teaching	Office for Learning and Teaching	Australia	10,000 AUD
2015	Fellowship	Visiting Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London	-	United Kingdom	-
2015	Teaching Award	Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching	-	-	$8,000
2015	Teaching Award	Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching	-	-	-
2015	Teaching Award	Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching	-	-	-

Education

Date Institution name Country Title
2005 Northwestern University USA PhD
Research Interests

Comparative Literature Studies Feminist Theory Gender Studies Literature in French Postcolonial Studies Visual Cultures

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2005	Northwestern University	USA	PhD

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Edwards, N. (2024). Pia Petersen, Translingualism and Disruption. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 28(2), 217-229. DOI
2023	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2023). Privileging the Peripheral: Representations of the Regional in French-Australian Writing. French Studies Bulletin, 44(167-168), 36-39. DOI
2022	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, A. C. (2022). Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau. Auto/Biography Studies, 36(3), 543-558. DOI
2022	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2022). Resisting Linguistic Rules in French-Australian Writing. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(1), 60-72. DOI
2022	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2022). Contemporary French-Australian Travel Writing: Transnational Memoirs by Patricia Gotlib and Emmanuelle Ferrieux. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(2), 171-184. DOI
2022	Edwards, N. (2022). Gender and Generation: Elena Ferrante, Annie Ernaux and the Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Romance Studies, 40(3-4), 180-194. DOI
2021	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2021). The Teaching Research Nexus: French-Australian Migrant Literature in the First-Year French Classroom. The French Australian Review, (70), 69-91.
2021	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2021). Wenz reinvented: The making and remaking of a French-Australian transnational writer. Australian Literary Studies, 36(1), 1-20. DOI
2020	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2020). French-Australian writing: Expanding multilingual Australian literature. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 20(2), 1-10.
2020	Bourdeau, L., Edwards, N., & Wilson, S. (2020). The care (re)turn in French and francophone studies introduction: Caring relations. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57(3), 287-292. DOI Scopus1
2020	Edwards, N. J., & Hogarth, C. (2020). French migrant writing in Australia: Australianness in two female memoirs from the 2000s. The French Australian Review, 67, 46-63.
2019	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2019). Introduction: Translingual writing in French, beyond the language of adoption. Esprit Createur, 59(4), 1-11. DOI Scopus4
2019	Edwards, N. (2019). Translingual life writing: Vassilis alexakis, Hélène Cixous, Lydie Salvayre. Esprit Createur, 59(4), 124-136. DOI Scopus1
2018	Edwards, N. (2018). Autofiction and the law: legal scandals in contemporary French literature. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 22(1), 6-14. DOI
2018	Edwards, N., Hogarth, C., Célestin, R., & DalMolin, E. (2018). Editors' Introduction: Interrogating Scandal. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 22(1), 1-5. DOI WoS1
2018	Edwards, N. (2018). Linguistic Rencontres in Kim Thúy’s Mãn. PORTAL : Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 15(1/2), 6-19. DOI Scopus2
2018	Edwards, N., Hogarth, C., & Mccann, B. (2018). Mobility and migration in France and the francophone world. Australian Journal of French Studies, 55(1), 3-5. DOI Scopus1
2018	Edwards, N., Hogarth, C., & King, G. (2018). Introduction: Mobility across media in the Francophone world. French Cultural Studies, 29(1), 3-7. DOI Scopus1
2018	Edwards, N. J. (2018). Ecrire entre deux langues/Writing Between Two Languages. The French Australian Review, 64, 90-96.
2018	Edwards, N. (2018). Mobile objects in Sophie Calle’s Fantômes and Prenez soin de vous. French Cultural Studies, 29(1), 70-78. DOI Scopus1
2018	Edwards, N. (2018). The Journey Home: Annie Ernaux’s Retour à Yvetot. Women in French Studies, 7(1), 344-361. DOI
2018	Edwards, N. (2018). Mobile Women in Virginie Despentes’s Apocalypse Bébé. Australian Journal of French Studies, 55(1), 6-16. DOI
2017	Edwards, N. (2017). Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures.. FRENCH STUDIES, 71(1), 135-136. DOI
2017	Edwards, N. (2017). ‘En Australie, je parle une langue minoritaire‘: Catherine Rey‘s Une femme en marche as Australian Life Writing in French. Life Writing, 14(4), 455-463. DOI
2017	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2017). Autobiography in the Language Classroom. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 32(1), 55-65. DOI Scopus4
2016	Edwards, N., Whitehouse, D., Milne, A. -L., & Lyamlahy, K. (2016). Book Reviews. Francosphères, 5(1), 125-133. DOI
2016	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2016). Fishermen and little fish: migration and hospitality in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s ‘The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa’. Portal, 13(2), 1-10. DOI
2015	Edwards, N. (2015). Obliged to sympathise: infanticide in "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime" and "A perdre la raison". Australian Journal of French Studies, 52(2), 174-187. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2015	Edwards, N. (2015). The Bilingual Cockatoo: Writing Italian Australian Lives. LIFE WRITING, 12(2), 233-237. DOI
2015	Edwards, N. (2015). Deliberately barren? The rejection of motherhood in contemporary French women's life writing. Australian Journal of French Studies, 52(1), 24-36. DOI WoS1
2014	Edwards, N. (2014). Review of Névine El Nossery and Anna Rocca, eds. Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: enracinements et renégociations. Sarrebruck: Editions Universitaires Européens, 2011. 258 pp.. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 38(1). DOI
2014	Edwards, N. J. (2014). Review of Women Matter / Femmes Matière: French and Francophone Women and the Material World, edited by Maggie Allison, and Imogen Long, Peter Lang, 2013.. Contemporary French Civilization, 39(3), 422-433.
2014	Edwards, N., & Hubbell, A. (2014). Self and stuff: accumulation in francophone literature and art. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 38(2), 2-1-2-5. DOI
2014	Edwards, N. (2014). Accumulation and archives: Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 38(2), 11 pages. DOI
2014	Hargreaves, A., Martin, F., in't Veld, L., Fauvel, M., Levy, G., Shryock, R., . . . Benedicty, A. (2014). Reviews. Contemporary French Civilization, 39(3), 411-433. DOI
2012	Edwards, N. (2012). Feminist manifesto or hardcore porn? Virginie Despente's transgression. The Irish Journal of French Studies, 12(1), 9-26. DOI
2011	Edwards, N. (2011). Photography and autobiography in Hélène Cixous's Photos de racines and Annie Emaux and Marc Mariées L'Usage de la photo. French Review, 84(4), 704-715. WoS1
2011	Edwards, N. J., Hogarth, C. W., & Hubbell, A. L. (2011). Introduction: Women's Self-Narrative Across the Francophone World. Women in French Studies, 11-13.
2009	Emerging Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices ed. by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier (review) (2009). Women in French Studies, 17(1), 182-183. DOI
2008	Edwards, N. (2008). The perversity of whiteness: Paule Constant's white spirit as a gendered rewriting of Joseph Conrad's heart of darkness. Women in French Studies, 16(1), 73-84. DOI
2008	Edwards, N. (2008). Using short-term study abroad to further undergraduate research. Council on Undergraduate Research, 29(2), 14-17.
2007	Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27 by Simone de Beauvoir (review) (2007). Women in French Studies, 15(1), 152-154. DOI
2007	White Spirit by Paule Constant (review) (2007). Women in French Studies, 15(1), 156-157. DOI

Books

Year	Citation
2020	Edwards, N. (2020). Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves. New York, NY; USA: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
2016	Edwards, N. (2016). Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French (Vol. 3). Switzerland: Peter Lang. DOI Scopus4
2015	Edwards, N. J., McCann, B., & Poiana, P. (Eds.) (2015). Framing French Culture. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
2015	Edwards, N. J., McCann, B., & Poiana, P. (Eds.) (2015). Framing French Culture. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
2011	Edwards, N. (2011). Shifting subjects: plural subjectivity in contemporary francophone women's autobiography. Delaware, USA: University of Delaware Press.
2011	Edwards, N., Hubbell, A., & Miller, A. (Eds.) (2011). Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Scopus7
2011	Edwards, N., Hubbell, A., & Miller, A. (Eds.) (2011). Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Scopus7

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2020	Edwards, N. J., & Christopher, H. (2020). Making the case for languages in postgraduate study. In J. Fornasiero, S. M. A. Reed, R. Amery, E. Bouvet, K. Enomoto, & H. L. Xu (Eds.), Intersections in Language Planning and Policy: Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures (Vol. 23, pp. 151-162). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI
2019	Edwards, N., & Hogarth, C. (2019). Building Bridges from Language to Civilization through Gisèle Pineau’s Un Papillon dans la cité. In N. Meyer, & J. Johnston (Eds.), Rethinking the French Classroom New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women (pp. 8 pages). New York, NY; USA: Routledge.
2019	Edwards, N. (2019). Lucie Joubert’s Ironic Rejection of Motherhood in L’envers du landau. In L. Bourdeau (Ed.), Horrible Mothers Representations across Francophone North America (pp. 93-106). Lincoln , Nebraska , U.S.A: University of Nebraska Press.
2017	Edwards, N. (2017). Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison. In E. Johnson, & E. Brezault (Eds.), Memory as Colonial Capital Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English (pp. 61-76). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI
2017	Edwards, N. (2017). Pussy: The Feline and the Feminine in Cixous’s L’ Amour même dans la boîte aux lettres. In E. Hall, F. Chevillot, E. Hoft-March, & M. Penalver Vicca (Eds.), Cixous depuis 2000/Cixous after 2000. (pp. 179-190). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. DOI
2015	Edwards, N., McCann, B., & Poiana, P. (2015). The doubling of the frame - Visual art and discourse. In N. Edwards, B. McCann, & P. Poiana (Eds.), Framing French Culture (1 ed., pp. 3-25). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
2015	Edwards, N. (2015). Annie Ernaux's phototextual archives: Ecrire la vie. In N. Edwards, B. McCann, & P. Poiana (Eds.), Framing French Culture (1 ed., pp. 177-191). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. DOI
2014	Edwards, N. (2014). Autofiction in the dock: The case of Christine Angot. In A. Angelo, & E. Fulop (Eds.), Protean Selves: First-Person Narrators in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Fiction (1 ed., pp. 68-81). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013	Edwards, N. (2013). Rape and repetition: Virginie Despentes and the rewriting of trauma. In N. El Nossery, & A. Hubbell (Eds.), The Unspeakable: representations of trauma and francophone literature and art (1 ed., pp. 211-229). United Kingdomm: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013	Edwards, N. (2013). 'Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte' Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's Shameless Bodies. In E. Johnson, & P. Moran (Eds.), The female face of shame (1 ed., pp. 61-73). United States: Indiana University Press.
2013	Edwards, N. (2013). Babykillers: Véronique Olmi and Laurence Tardieu on Motherhood. In A. Damle, & G. Rye (Eds.), Women's writing in twenty-first-century France: life as literature (1 ed., pp. 98-110). United Kingdom: Cardiff University of Wales Press.
2011	Edwards, N., Hubbell, A., & Miller, A. (2011). Introduction: Textual and visual selves. In N. Edwards, A. Hubbell, & A. Miller (Eds.), Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Comic Art in French Autobiography (pp. 1-28). USA: University of Nebraska Press. Scopus3
2011	Edwards, N. (2011). The absent body: Photography and autobiography in Hélène Cixous's photos de racines and Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie's L'usage de la photo. In N. Edwards, A. Hubbell, & A. Miller (Eds.), Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography (pp. 79-99). Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska. Scopus3
2010	Edwards, N. (2010). Christine Angot's second-person autobiography. In N. Edwards, & C. Hogarth (Eds.), This "Self" Which is Not One: Women's Life Writing in French (pp. 149-160). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Date	Project Number / Name	Investigators	Funding Body	Amount
2019 - 2021	Transnational Selves: French Narratives of Migration to Australia DP190102863	A/Prof. Natalie Edwards & Dr. Christopher Hogarth	Australian Research Council (ARC)	$120,000

Date	Course Title	Course Level / Code
2021	Beginners' French IA & IB	Level 1, FREN 1002 & 1003
2021	French for Grape Growers, Wine Makers & Wine Lovers	FREN 3215OL
2021	French IIIB & IIISB Culture: L'écriture féminine	Level 3, FREN 3213 & 3214

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019	Principal Supervisor	Geographies of Francophone Pacific Literature - Mapping Place, Writers and Writing	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Freya Anne Davies-Ardill

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2020 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Muslim Women's Identity in a Changing World: the Fiction of Leila Aboulela	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Najla Fahad Alyabis
2020 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	Self-Deception and Wilful Ignorance: ‘Self-induced, purported ignorance?’	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Ms Margaret Leila Penhall-Jones
2018 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Poétique du neutre et question de l'Être dans l’oeuvre poétique d'Andrée Chedid et de Jeanne Benguigui	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Melanie Maillot
2018 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	Collaborative Orchestrations in Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous and Mathieu Briand’s Et In Libertalia Ego	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Debra Anne Hoadley
2018 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Narratives of Child Abduction in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe Volume 1: Novella Volume 2: Exegesis	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mrs Anj Foley
2017 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Australian Alcohol Advertising, Gender Stereotypes, and Alcohol-Involved Sexual Assault	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Laurence Cobbaert
2017 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	Working Through the Holodomor Discursively: Memory, Trauma and Representations of Ukrainian Genocide Victims from the 1950s until the Early Twenty-First Century	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Elise Westin
2015 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Parole De Narrateurs: Figures De L'Enonciation Dans Le Recit Francais Moderne	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Marianne Braux
2014 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Les Instants De Recueillement Et De Souvenir: La Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale Et Le Cinema Francais De 1995 A Nos Jours	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Lisa Harper Campbell

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2019 - ongoing	President	Australian Society for French Studies Executive Committee	Australian Society for French Studies	Australia
2013 - ongoing	Treasurer	Australian Society for French Studies	Australian Society for French Studies	Australia
2012 - 2013	Member	Australian Society for French Studies- Postgraduate Officer	Australian Society for French Studies	Australia
2009 - 2011	Board Member	Women in French association	Women in French association	United States

Editorial Boards

Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
2020 - 2023	Member	PMLA Advisory Committee	Modern Language Association	United States
2018 - ongoing	Member	Editorial Board, University of Wales Press' French and Francophone Studies series	University of Wales Press	United Kingdom

Offices Held

Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
2019 - 2021	Director	Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide	Australia
2015 - 2012	Director of Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion	Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide	-
2015 - ongoing	Director of Graduate Studies	Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide	-

Email: natalie.edwards@adelaide.edu.au