Dr Michelle Royer

PhD (UNSW), BA (Paris), MA (Paris)
Senior Lecturer
Room 744, A18 Christopher Brennan Building

+61 2 9306 9480

Research areas

The representation of the body in the contemporary discourse of alternative medicine
Minorities in contemporary French cinema
Social suffering as spectacle in contemporary French cinema

Books

Françoise Grauby & Michelle Royer (eds), Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Processes, Bern, 2001, Peter Lang.
L'Ecran de la passion une étude du cinéma de Marguerite Duras, Brisbane, 1998, Boombana Publications.
Françoise Grauby & Michelle Royer, Recherche mode d'emploi, Australian research centre, UNSW, 1996.

Chapters

“Writing, the Writing Self and the cinema of Marguerite Duras”, in Julie Beaulieu and Rosanna Maule (eds) In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema, Peter Lang, 2008.
“Du paratexte au cinema: la poïétique durassienne et sa mise en scène”, in Stimpson (eds) Marguerite Duras: écritures, écritures, Paris, Minard, 2007, pp.159-169.
“Le Bordeaux et le/la Bouffi(e) : Duras à table”, The Arts of the Table, Monash Romance Studies, 2004, pp.88-99.
'L’Ecriture du vécu: l’oeuvre paralittéraire de Marguerite Duras' in Duras femme du siècle, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2002 pp. 73-86.
'La télévision australienne' in Les télévisions du monde, Corlet Télérama, 1998, pp.383-390.
“Deconstruction of Masculinity and Femininity in the films of Marguerite Duras”, in Threadgold & Cranny-Francis (eds) Masculine/feminine and Representation, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1989, pp. 128-139.

Articles

“Shame and Gaze: embodied social suffering and spectator’s gaze in French cinema”, Embodying Words and Images, Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume XLIV, Number 2, 2007.
“Spatial opposition and the gendered spectacle of social suffering in French films”, Literature and Aesthetics, 2007.
“Shaping and Reshaping WWII: French Cinema and the National Past”, Literature and Aesthetics, 2007.
Michelle Royer, Renate Günther, Marguerite Duras, Carnet Austral, September 2003, p.15-17
Ninette Boothroyd, Michelle Royer, 'Robert Dessaix’s Journey into French', Southerly, 2003, Vol 63, N°1, pp.95-105.
'L'Inde romancée. L'Inde dans le genre romanesque depuis 1947', Carnet Austral, N° 17, Sept. 2002 (book review).
'Produire l'oeuvre au dehors: l'écriture durassienne face au regard de l'autre', n°1, Australian Journal of French Studies ,1998, pp. 88-99.
“Afterthought on reading and sexual difference”, Australian Feminist Studies, n°15, Autumn 1992, pp.81-85.1
“Women in a changing Europe”, Australian Feminist Studies, 1992, n° 15, Autumn pp. 99-105.
“Les films de Marguerite Duras: un corps morcelé”, Journal of Durassian Studies, Vol. 2, Fall 1990, pp. 49-59.
“Les films de Marguerite Duras: un corps morcelé”, Journal of Durassian Studies, Vol. 2, Fall 1990, pp.49-59.
“One block from heaven”, Photofile, Winter 1988, pp. 28-29.

Editing

Robert Dessaix, Corfou, translated by Dr Ninette Boothroyd, Trouville-sur-mer, 2002, Reflet.
Robert Dessaix, Night Letters, lettres de Venise, translated by Dr Ninette Boothroyd, Trouville-sur-mer, 2001, Reflet.
Robert Dessaix, Une mère et sa honte, translated by Dr Ninette Boothroyd, Trouville-sur-mer, 1999, Reflet.
'Produire l'oeuvre au dehors: l'écriture durassienne face au regard de l'autre', n°1, Australian Journal of French Studies, 1998, pp. 88-99.

Teaching

Surpervision

Editor and project coordinator for the translation and publication of Robert Dessaix's books: A mother's Disgrace, Night Letters, Corfu
Project liaison for the publication of Australian literature in French for French publisher 'Le Reflet'
Co-convener of the conference 'Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Processess' 15-16 February, 1999 held at Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney
Australian representative for Société Marguerite Duras
Diploma of Editing and Publishing (Sydney 2001)
Formerly Senior Lecturer and Head of Department at UNSW (1999-2001)