Past Winners
Previous winners of the Australian Society for French Studies grants, prizes and awards are:
AJFS/ASFS Postgraduate Essay Prize
2024: Hannah Doyle, University of Adelaide, “Ma soeur, il est parti ! ma soeur, il m’abandonne ! » : La mise en scène de l’abandon dans les élégies de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore”.
2023: Louise Cain, University of Melbourne, “The Gaze That Looks Back: Queering Hierarchies of Viewing in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu“.
2021: Emma McNicol, Monash University, “The Significance of Socialism in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe“.
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
2024: Sophie Tallis, Australian National University: “From Monstrous Feminine to Liminal Resistance: Girlhood Bodies on French Screens”.
2023: Madeline Roycroft, University of Melbourne: “Decentring French Opera”.
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
2025
Leslie Barnes, Ashok Collins, Julia Gorham, Solène Inceoglu, Gemma King and Ann-Sophie Lévidis (ANU), “French Outreach Day at ANU”
Lucie Froidevaux (University of Melbourne), school visits from Cornish College and University High
2024
Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan (University of Newcastle), “Enhancing French Language Teaching in Newcastle”
Charlotte Mackay (Monash University) and Loveena Narayanen and Philippe Vallantin (Association of French Teachers of Victoria), Francophone Book Club
2023
Sophie Patrick, Valentina Gosetti, and Irwin Compiegne (University of New England), “Come and try UNE French! Fostering French-Language Learning in the Regions”
Charlotte Mackay (Monash University) and Loveena Narayanen, “Club littéraire francophone for secondary school teachers of French in Victoria”
2022:
Charlotte Mackay (Monash University) and Loveena Narayanen (Association of French Teachers in Victoria and the Forum de la Francophonie), “Club littéraire for VCE Secondary School Teachers of French”