- Title
- On moving and (inter) disciplinarity: thinking about Australian French studies in the active voice
- Creator
- Robert, Julie; Rolls, Alistair; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure
- Relation
- Australian Journal of French Studies Vol. 54, Issue 1, p. 3-13
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2017.01
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Our aim in this introduction is to position all the articles that comprise this special issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies within a framework of mobility while highlighting how they each, individually, test and move (beyond) certain frames. We are also writing in response to the annual conference of the Australian Society for French Studies, which we co-convened in 2015 and at which the articles included here were presented. As we began writing, as individuals working in collaboration, the tension between our singular and collective identities became visibly metonymic of the work that is generated in, and generates, French Studies. Clearly, one of us has a deeper understanding of the mobilities at play in Francophone Studies; one of us is more interested in the evolution of our disciplinarity, as French lecturers, in light of student mobility and flexible modes of delivery; and one of us cannot move in any direction without seeing Baudelaire. And yet in 2015 we came together, as every year, with our colleagues from Australia and around the world with a clear sense of what it means – to all of us, despite the nuances of our institutional specificities – to work in French Studies. Thus, we decided to remove our individual “I”s here, however transparent they may be, in order to write this introduction not so much from the perspective of a royal, or even a republican, “we” but rather from that of the first person mobile.
- Subject
- Australian French studies; active voice; Francophone
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1351321
- Identifier
- uon:30685
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-9468
- Rights
- © 2017. Reprinted with permission from Liverpool University Press.
- Language
- eng
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