Past Winners

Previous winners of the Australian Society for French Studies grants, prizes and awards are:

AJFS/ASFS Postgraduate Essay Prize

2021: Emma McNicol, Monash University, “The Pessimism Problem in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe and La Vieillesse“.

2020: Josephine Goldman, University of Sydney, “Fragmenting, Repeating, Rebuilding: The Chaotic Cyclones of Gisèle Pineau’s L’Espérance-macadam“.

2019: Marianne Braux, University of Adelaide, “Écriture de soi et identité énonciative dans Mémoire de fille d’Annie Ernaux“.

2018: Mélanie Maillot, University of Adelaide, “Représentations de la mère nature: Une lecture écoféministe de la poésie de Jeanne Benguigui“.

2017: Belle Joseph, Australian National University, ““Vivant de dignité de douleurs et d’alarmes”: Personalism in André Ulmann’s Poèmes du camp“.

2016: Sarah Martin, Macquarie University, “Carrying Across, But Only So Far: Reflections on Translational Visibility, Selectivity, and Canonicity”.

2015: Kim Hajek, University of Queensland, “‘Je lis ça comme je lirais un roman’: Reading Scientific Works on Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-Century France”.

Colin Nettelbeck Prize

2022: Anne Roberts, James Cook University: “Liberté, Egalité, Diversité in 21st-Century New Caledonia”.

2021: Beth Kearney, University of Queensland: “The Role of Photography in Contemporary Women’s Life Writing in French”.

School Liaison and Outreach Fund

2022: Charlotte Mackay and Loveena Narayanen, with The Association of French Teachers in Victoria and the Forum de la Francophonie, “Club littéraire for VCE Secondary School Teachers of French”.