Research strengths

Staff in the Department of French Studies have expertise in a large number of research areas and are currently working on a range of specific research projects and publications. The Department also has strong interdisciplinary links with many research clusters across the School of Languages and Cultures, the Faculty of Arts and the University, including: Medieval Studies; Comparative Literature; Modernity and the City; Islam and the West; and South-East Asian Studies

The Department has an annual program of research seminars which include University of Sydney staff, postgraduate students and visiting scholars from other Australian and international universities.

Research areas

• Theatre and Cinema studies
• Popular culture
• European cinema
• Contemporary French feminist discourse and theory
• History of French feminism
• Systemic functional Linguistics
• French narrative and cultural history from the 17th century to the 20th century
• Colonisation, decolonisation and the 'postcolonial' French-speaking world
• Gay and lesbian studies
• Sociology of literature and culture
• Medieval French Literature and Art
• Intercultural Communication
• Discourse analysis
• Translation studies