Contributorsř Biographies

457 Contributorsř Biographies Fiona Barclay is Lecturer in Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling. Her research focuses on the ways in which Franceřs colonial history in North Africa influences conceptions of contemporary French culture and society. She has published on the function of exoticism and the foreign in French representations of North Africa, and is working on a monograph which focuses on literary representations of France as a postcolonial space. Martine Fernandes is Associate Professor of French at the University of South Florida St Petersburg. She is agrégée with a doctorate from UC Berkeley and the Sorbonne-Paris IV. Her main research interests are contemporary French and Francophone novels, first novels, and immigrant literature. She is the author of Les Ecrivaines francophones en liberté (LřHarmattan, 2007). Her interest in Portuguese immigrant writing and culture in France stems not only from her being the daughter of Portuguese immigrants in France, but also from her desire to question current visions of immigration in France and uncover understudied cultural productions. Katherine Gantz is Associate Professor of French at St. Maryřs College of Maryland. Her publications include work in the areas of nineteenth-century Decadent fiction, French cultural studies and American pop culture, as well as in the developing field of French queer theory. Her current project is a discussion of present-day uses of public space in Paris originally designed during the Second Empire. Angela Giovanangeli is a lecturer in French studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are in the area of French regionalisation, European interregional cooperation and French language policies. Kiran Grewal has worked as a lawyer in the areas of immigration, human rights and international criminal law. She is currently a lecturer in the 458 Contributors Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, where her research spans international feminist theory and activism, gender and nationalism, and diaspora and postcolonial theory. Sam Haigh is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Until recently, she worked on the Francophone Caribbean and has written and edited numerous articles, books and journals on the subject. Her current research is on contemporary French representations of disability in photography, fiction, philosophy and politics. Joe Hardwick lectures in French cinema, literature and cultural studies at the University of Queensland. He was guest editor for a special edition of the Australian Journal of French Studies on French cinema in the new millennium in 2008 and was curator of the French new New Wave retrospective at the Australian Cinémathèque in Brisbane in 2007. He is currently preparing a monograph on wandering protagonists in le jeune cinéma français. Rada Ivekovic is Professor of Sociology at Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, and Programme Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Her research interests span comparative philosophy, anthropology, politics and gender studies, and she collaborates extensively with research networks in Europe and Asia. Radařs publications include Le Sexe de la nation (Scheer, 2003) and is the author, editor and co-editor of an extensive series of texts considering globalisation and the ideas of nation, language and identity, with a focus on the partition of reason and a commitment to combating inequality and discrimination. Hélène Jaccomard is Professor of French at the University of Western Australia. Her research revolves around the theory and practice of contemporary autobiographies and fiction written in French. The corpora she studies are informed by issues of discrimination due to health and sexual practices (AIDS/HIV testimonials by women) or dual nationalities (including descendants of Arabic migrants in France and French writers with foreign origins). She is currently working on a monograph on Yasmina Rezařs plays. Brigitte Jandey lectures in the Department of International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. She teaches language, literature and French for Business with a focus on intercultural relationships. Her research background is in French literature, in particular women pioneering in French literature, genetic textual analysis and autofiction. In recent years, she has also researched student attrition in first year language studies, and the making of French identity. Vladimir Kapor is Lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. Prior to this position, he lectured at the University of Western Australia, University of Cyprus and University Lille-3 and held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Melbourne. He is author of two monographs, Pour une poétique de l‟écriture exotique (LřHarmattan, 2007) and Local Colour: A .

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