Great to speak on the @wifaustralia.bsky.social Positionalities podcast about navigating the ECR stage & cultivating community. Thanks to the wonderful hosts Pooja Booluck-Miller, @josiegoldman.bsky.social & @besskearney.bsky.social womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...

Happy to announce that my PhD thesis - ‘Diving into Heavy Waters: Water and Gender in Contemporary Francophone Caribbean and Oceanian Art and Literature' - was recognised as Highly Commended in the 2025 Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize from the Australian Association of Pacific Studies ! #AAPS2025

Sharing my article on nuclear colonialism in light of the Australian LNP's spruiking of nuclear energy this election campaign. I reflect on the powerful work of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Mililani Ganivet and Marie-Hélène Villierme and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner: theconversation.com/as-dutton-ch...

Excited to share my contribution to the current issue of The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, focused on scholarship published in 2023 on 21st century francophone literature. So wonderful to see how much amazing work is being published in our field! brill.com/view/journal...

Thrilled to see Francophone Oceania Today liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... in print! Thank you to Marie-Hélène for your amazing art, explored in my chapter "Opaque Visions of Polynesia: Word and Image Interactions in Marie-Hélène Villierme’s Visages de Polynésie, Faces of Polynesia"

We are delighted to launch our new WiF OZ podcast, hosted by Josephine Goldman and @besskearney.bsky.social 😊! In the first episode, Beth and Josie talked to our founding President @christiesmbc.bsky.social about being a mum in academia. You can listen to it here: open.spotify.com/show/3EOWoce...