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.