Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski

PhD (Sydney), BA (London), MA (Leicester)
Senior Lecturer and Chair of Department
Room 745, A18 Christopher Brennan Building

+61 2 9351 6778

Elizabeth is the Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery project: ‘National Identity and Communications in Early Modern France’ with Professors Margaret Sankey and Angus Martin. The project has a web site which can be accessed via the Department of French Studies site and which contains bibliographies, articles and data bases relating to this project. In the 1990s she was a member of the international research project: ‘Xenophilia and xenophobia in the Franco-Australian sphere of influence’, an international study of representations of our two countries in the contemporary media, coordinated by Geneviève Zarate, partly funded by thE French Embassy and she has continued this research interest through a number of collaborative projects. Her teaching includes the social sciences (Revolution and Social thought; The Second French Revolution), the history of ideas (Intellectual Movements since 1945; nationalism and the far right (Les Avatars du nationalisme français; L’Extrême droite en France) and discourse analysis (Deconstructng French Texts).

Amongst her recent publications: ‘References to National Character in the Encyclopédie: the Western European nations’ in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 12, November 2003, ‘The Significance of Aesthetic Prejudice in French Enlightenment Commentaries on Human Variety, (SSLA journal November 2004); editor and contributor to a forthcoming: collection of articles on La Nausée.

• The intellectual and artistic avant-garde since the late 19th century
• André Malraux, André Suarès, Sartre
• Bourdieu
• Discourse analysis
• National sentiment in the French enlightenment
• War and commemoration in the twentieth century
• The analysis of ideology in French editorials

• Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery project:
  ‘National Identity and Communications in Early Modern France’ with Professors Margaret Sankey and Angus Martin
• ‘The News project’ discourse analysis of the French press. International research project coordinated by Elizabeth Thompson, University of Wollongong
• ‘Modernism and the City’: intra School project; the work of Apolllinaire; the figure of the flâneur

2006, Sartre’s Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext, Alistair Rolls & Elizabeth Rechniewski (eds), Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2006.

1996, Antécédents littéraires de l’existentialisme: Suarès, Malraux et Sartre, Paris, Minard.

Literature and Aesthetics, vol 15, 2, December 2005.

Literature and Aesthetics, vol 17, 2, December 2007.

Australian Journal of French Studies, vol XLIV, 3, Sept-Dec 2007: special issue : “Imagining the Nation in Early Modern France”.

2008, «Gallipoli: invention et réinvention d’une tradition australienne», accepted for publication in Vingtième siècle (27/03/08).

2008, ‘Ideological opposition in news stories: a French case study’, with Alice Caffarel, in Communicating Conflict: Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media, E. Thomson & P. White (eds), Continuum publishing.

2008, ‘Australian War Memorialism and the Politics of Remembrance: from Gallipoli to Long Tan’ with Matthew Graves, in Martine Piquet (ed) Cultures of the Commonwealth, issue 14, Université de Paris-Dauphine, Winter, 2007-2008, pp. 95-106.

2008, “Commemorating Gallipoli: foreign space, national place”, accepted for publication 11/11/07 in Géographies identitaires : lieu, mémoire, ancrages (ed. M.Graves and V. André), Paris: Publibooks Université, forthcoming.

2007, ‘’On a foreign shore’: Gallipoli and the Australian National Imagination”, in Proceedings of AULLA 34 Congress, Feb 5-7, 2007, Cultural Interactions: Australasia, the Old and New Worlds.

2007, ‘Inventing the Nation in Early Modern France’, Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol XLIV, 3, Sept-Dec, pp. 185-194.

2007, ‘Instituting the Citizen in Eighteenth-Century France’, Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol XLIV, 3, Sept-Dec, pp. 273-290.

2007, ‘The Work of the City’, Literature and Aesthetics, July, vol 17, 1, pp. 97-106.

2007, “When and why did the flâneur die? a modern detective story”, in Literature and Aesthetics, December, vol 17, 2.

2007, ‘Private lives and National Citizenship: the moral of Marmontel’s ‘Contes Moraux’, AUMLA, 107: May 2007. pp. 25-40.

2006, ‘The Construction of National Memory in the ‘Era of commemoration’, in Culture and Memory, Modern Greek Studies Association special issue, Sydney, pp. 68-80.2005, ‘Avatars of Contingency: Suarès and Sartre’, in Sartre’s Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext, Alistair Rolls & Elizabeth Rechniewski (eds), pp. 93-104.

2005, ‘Avatars of Contingency: Suarès and Sartre’, in Sartre’s Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext, Alistair Rolls & Elizabeth Rechniewski (eds), pp. 93-104.

2005, ‘Uprooting the Chestnut Tree: Nausea today’, in Sartre’s Nausea: Text, Context, Intertext, Alistair Rolls & Elizabeth Rechniewski (eds), Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 1-27.

2005, ‘Apollinaire: the ‘poet of modern life’’, in Literature and Aesthetics, December 2005, vol 15, n 2, pp 49-58.

2004, ‘The Significance of Aesthetic Prejudice in French Enlightenment Commentaries on Human Variety’, Literature and Aesthetics, vol 14, n2, December, pp. 67-83.

2003, ‘References to National Character in the Encyclopédie: the Western European nations’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 12, Nov 2003 Oxford, pp. 221-237.

• The social sciences (Revolution and Social thought; The Second French Revolution)
• The history of ideas (Intellectual Movements since 1945)
• Nationalism and the far right (Les Avatars du nationalisme français; l’Extrême droite en France)
• Discourse analysis (Deconstructng French Texts)
• General literature and civilisation courses.

• Past candidates
  On Benda and Suarès; on Cécile Brunschvig; on the Vichy regime; on the European Union
• Currently
  On Aragon; on constitutional questions of the Fifth Republic; on nation-building in France and Germany (co-supervision)

• Member of organising committees for recent and current ASFS, AULLA conferences and occasional University of Sydney–based conferences

• Member of editorial board, Australian Journal of French Studies
• Member of editorial board, Eréa - Revue d'etudes anglophones
• Member of editorial board, Explorations: journal of the Institute for the Study of French Australian Relations (ISFAR)