Recent PhD research in French

Date	Name	PhD Research
In progress	Helen Frances Sturm	From Treaty to Crisis: Cultural, religious, political and language difference as reflected in the letters of French Marist missionaries working in New Zealand 1836-1854
2017	Ian Fookes	Victor Segalen: Exotisme, Altérité, Transcendance
2016	Sidney Smith	Une pensée-autre du corps: Le sexe et la sexualité dans la fiction contemporaine marocaine en langue française
2014	Ellen Carter	Inside job?: How cultural outsiders write, translate and read cross-cultural crime fiction
2013	Emma Reynolds	(Re)writing pathways: Oral tradition, written tradition, and identity construction in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie = Les chemins de la réécriture: Tradition orale, tradition écrite et construction identitaire en Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie
2011	Ashwinee Pendharkar	Reading/Writing India Across Cultures: Comparative Study of Receptions of Three Indian English Texts Across Three Audiences and Two Languages
2010	Ruth Diver	Enfance et d eracinement: Nathalie Sarraute, Romain Gary
2008	Stéphanie Vigier	La fiction face au passé : Histoire, mémoire et espace-temps dans la fiction littéraire océanienne contemporaine
2008	Lynette Wrigley	S'anéantir ou s'épanouir : avatars d'ascétisme anorexique dans la litterature française du XIXe au XXIe siecle (Self-destruction or Fulfilment: avatars of anorexic asceticism in French Literature from the 19th to the 21st Centuries)
2005	Heath Lees	Mallarmé, music, Wagner : a study in music and poetic language
2004	Trudy Agar	La notion de contreviolence créative dans l'autobiographie postcoloniale franco-algérienne : paroles d'indentité et de résistance chez Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem et Nina Bouraoui (The notion of creative counterviolence in postcolonial Franco-Algerian autobiography: identity and resistance in the writing of Assia Diebar, Malika Mokeddem and Nina Bouraoui)
2003	Karin Speedy	Cross-Cultural Communication in a Postmodern Business Environment: The Role of French Language and Culture in New Zealand-French Business Relations
2002	Catherine Burnet	The Diaries of Geneviève Bréton 1874-1914
2001	Deborah Walker	Auto-réflexivité et construction de la subjectivité dans le cinema français contemporain (Alain Resnais) Self-reflexivity and the Construction of Subjectivity in contemporary French cinema (Alain Resnais)

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