Dr Helena Duffy
Lecturer, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MSt, Diplôme d’Études Universitaires Françaises, Higher Education Teaching Certificate, PhD
Contact
| Email: | helena.duffy@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 210 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2415 (or +61 2 6773 2415 overseas) |
Helena Duffy studied at London Guildhall University, Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III), Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and Oxford Brookes University where she obtained a PhD in the literature of contemporary non-native French writers. She taught French language and culture at Further and Higher Education institutions in the UK and in Australia before coming to UNE in 2007.
Helena Duffy’s research activity is centred on twentieth-century French prose with a particular focus on novelists who have adopted French as their language of creative expression in the context of exile.
Areas of Teaching
- French language
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature
Publications
- ‘Duty or/and Freedom in Rodica Iulian’s Le Repentir and Les Hommes de Pavlov’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2000 XXXVI
- 'Writing at the Margin: An Introduction to the Exile Novels by Andreï Makine, Milan Kundera and Rodica Iulian', Yvette Rocheron and Christopher Rolfe (eds), Shifting Frontiers of France and francophonie, pp. 287-306 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004)
- ‘L’écrivain ne se meurt pas. La (Re)naissance d’Andreï Makine’, Murielle Lucie Clément (ed.) `Ecrivains franco-russes (to be published in 2008 by University of Amsterdam Press).