Past Winners
Previous winners of the Australian Society for French Studies grants, prizes and awards are:
AJFS/ASFS Postgraduate Essay Prize
2023: Louise Cain, University of Melbourne, “‘The gaze that looks back: queering hierarchies of viewing in Portrait of a Lady on Fire“.
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
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
2023: Dr Sophie Patrick, Associate Professor Dr Valentina Gosetti, and Dr Irwin Compiegne, “Come and try UNE French! Fostering French-Language Learning in the Regions” and Dr Charlotte Mackay and Loveena Narayanen, “Club littéraire francophone for secondary school teachers of French in Victoria”.
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”.