Dr Victoria Souliman
Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Email: Victoria.Souliman@une.edu.au
Biography
Victoria Souliman is a lecturer in French studies at the University of New England, Australia. She completed her PhD in Art History at the University of Sydney and Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 in 2019. Her research focuses on issues of national identity, expatriatism and women’s agency in the artistic exchanges between Australia, France and Britain in the early 20th century. Prior to joining UNE in 2020, she lectured in Art History at the University of Sydney.
Qualifications
PhD in Art History and Anglophone Studies (cotutelle)
Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France / The University of Sydney. Australia
Thesis: National Identity, Expatriatism and Women’s Agency in the Artistic exchanges between Australia and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s
Masters in Anglophone Studies and Visual Arts
Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France
Bachelor of Arts in Anglophone Studies
Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France
Awards
2020 - Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Tutorials (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - The University of Sydney)
Grants
2014-2017 Contrat Doctoral
Three-year doctoral fellowship Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
Research Interests
- Methods of teaching and learning French language and Art History
- Comparative modernisms, especially across French, British and Australian visual cultures
- Contemporary international art, with a particular focus on post-colonial and feminist issues
- Questions and definitions of identity and borders in visual art
- Migration studies
Publications
Souliman, V. (2021) ‘“Nobody’s Darlings”? Edith May Fry and Australian Expatriate Art in the 1920s’ in Bénédicte Miyamoto and Marie Ruiz, Art and Migration: Revisioning the Borders of Community, Manchester University Press, ISBN: 978-1-5261-4969-5
Souliman, V. (2017) ‘British Modernism from an Australian Point of View: Clarice Zander’s 1933
Exhibition of British Contemporary Art’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 17:1, 84-96, DOI:10.1080/14434318.2017.1336190
Souliman, V. (2014) ‘Les Antipodeans : quand l'artiste australien s’assume en tant que figure de l’Autre’, Histoire de l’Art, 75:2, 243-54
Conferences
December 2020 'The Art Student of the Quartier Latin is a Poor, Joyless Creature: Alice Muskett in Paris 1895-1897' ASFS annual conference (Australian society for French studies) 'Dis/connexion', online
December 2019 ‘When an Englishman’s Home is Her Castle: Clarice Zander’s 1941 Exhibition’
AAANZ annual conference (art association of Australia and New Zealand) ‘Encounters’, Auckland, New Zealand
December 2017 ‘Investigating Australia’s Acquisitions of Modern Art: A Vehicle of National
Identity?’ AAANZ annual conference (art association of Australia and New Zealand) ‘Arts and its Directions’, Perth, Australia
June 2017 ‘And perhaps, in the corner, a lubra’ 6th Euroacademia International Conference – Identities and Identifications: Policized Uses of Collective
identities, Florence, Italy
May 2016 'Modernity and National Identity: the case of Clarice Zander’s 1933 Exhibition of British Contemporary Art' Conference Tradition and/or modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660 – 1940), Radboud University
Nijmegen, Netherlands
February 2015 ‘Annette Messager and Francis Bacon: Envisioning the body’ VIEW Art History Conference, London, England
February 2014 ‘Australian Art in the Late 1960s: the end of Australian Provincialism’ VIEW Art
History Conference, London, England
Memberships
- Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)
- Australian Society for French Studies (ASFS)
