Teaching
I teach over all levels of undergraduate and graduate study at Monash University.
Undergraduate
French Studies
Within the French program I teach or have taught
- a lecture course on French bande dessinée to ab initio French students as part of ATS1061 and ATS1062
- a course on French culture and film in the twenty and twenty-first centuries, looking (among other things) at La Bataille d’Alger, La Rafle and Les Intouchables, as part of ATS2063–2064 and ATS2065–2066.
- a seminar course on the idea of equality for ATS3067 and ATS3069.
I also taught the French and literary studies elective ‘Whatever Happened to Truth? French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture’ (ATS3077).
Literary Studies
I lectured on Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, realism and naturalism for ATS1903: Introducing literature: Ways of reading in the Literary Studies major.
Literary theory
I co-ordinate and teach into the literary studies unit Literary Theory (ATS3189).
Literature and modernism
I co-ordinate and teach into the literary studies capstone unit Literature and modernism (ATS3421).
Romanticism
I lectured on Romantic theology for the unit ‘Literature and Romanticism’ (ATS2422).
Cultures of Remembrance
I taught a couple of seminars on Georges Perec for the LLCL school-wide unit Cultures of Remembrance (ATS3040).
Religion and Theology
Religions and the modern world
I contributed a lecture dealing with some issues around secularism, atheism and humanism to the unit ATS1040 – Religions and the modern world.
Honours
I have helped teach the literary and theoretical section of the LCL Honours workshop (ATS4653), with seminars on an introduction to literary theory, author theory, and deconstruction.
As Honours co-ordinator I had the privilege each year of meeting a new set of motivated and excited students taking their first steps researching a topic they are passionate about. This has to be one of the most rewarding parts of my job.
Postgraduate
I have offered a seminar on the actuality of the death of the author for the PhD coursework unit ‘Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview’ (APG6724).
Previous teaching
In the past I have taught and examined a range of French authors and schools in the late nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Zola, Proust, Gide, Breton, Artaud, Cocteau, Jarry, Beckett, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Genet, Robbe-Grillet, Apollinaire, Duras, Perec, Houellebecq, Bataille, Blanchot, Resnais, Varda, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Nancy and Badiou.
At Masters level I have taught seminars on Perec, Deleuze and Derrida.
In the past I have particularly enjoyed teaching an eight-week undergraduate seminar course covering a range of texts and topics in thought and literature from the ancient Greeks to the present day. This course was expanded to become the book From Plato to Postmodernism.
I also taught and examined translation from French into English at undergraduate level for a number of years.