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Associate Professor Bonnie Thomas
BA (Hons), PhD W.Aust., CELTASenior Lecturer (French Studies) 
Arts Building, Room: 2.15
Ph: (+61 8) 6488 2171
Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1182
Email: bonnieth@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Teaching and Research InterestsI teach in a variety of courses including beginners and intermediate French, francophone Caribbean and African literature and French intellectuals. My particular research interests lie in Caribbean literature, history and memory, gender identity and teaching and learning issues. Selected PublicationsBooks
Breadfruit or Chestnut?: Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel, Lexington Books, USA. (http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739115839)
Chapters in books
"Utopia and Dystopia in Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia and Fleur de Barbarie" in John West-Sooby (ed.), Nowhere is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias, University of Delaware Press, 2008, pp. 180-192. (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udpress/nowhere.htm) Refereed articles"Collaborative Learning and Mixed Level Classes: A Case Study in French", Babel, 41, 2007, pp. 13-23.
"Promoting Collaborative Learning with IdeaNet: A Francophone Literature Case Study", CATLyst, 1, May 2007, pp. 22-27.
"L'Identité antillaise selon Patrick Chamoiseau", Dalhousie French Studies, 77, 2006, pp. 87-96.
"Memory, Nature and Exile in the Work of Gisèle Pineau", Essays in French Literature, 43, 2006, pp. 237-254.
"Identity at the Crossroads: An Exploration of French Caribbean Gender Identity", Caribbean Studies, 32(2), 2004, pp. 45-62.
"Intercultural Encounters and Personal Identity: Errance in the Life and Work of Maryse Cond", Essays in French Literature, 41, 2004, pp. 171-184.
"Mangroves and Marginality: The Use of Landscape as a Metaphor for French Caribbean Identity", Landscapes, 2(3), 2004
(ISSN: 1448-0778, http://139.230.167.13/scapes/journal/volumes/vol2_3.html).
"Reflections on the French Caribbean Woman: The femme matador in Fact and Fiction", Kunapipi, 26(1), 2004, pp. 98-110.
"Gender Identity on the Move: Gisèle Pineau's La Grande Drive des esprits", The French Review, 76(6), 2003, pp. 1126-1136.
"Moving Away From Stereotypes: Gisèle Pineau's L'Espérance-macadam", Essays in French Literature, 40, 2003, pp. 201-222.
"Multimedia and the Acquisition of French: Expanding the Horizons of Language Learning" in Alison Bunker & Geoff Swan (eds.), Focusing on the Student, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, 2002, pp. 59-64.Current projectsI am currently working on 2 book projects - one focusing on remembrance and reconciliation in the works of Guadeloupean author Gisèle Pineau; the other on memory in contemporary works of French Caribbean autobiography. I am also working on a teaching and learning project relating to peer tutoring. MembershipsSociety for Caribbean Research.
Australian Association of Caribbean Studies.
Society of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.
Australian Society of French Studies.
American Association of Teachers of French.
Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA).
Australian Historical Association. Complete CV |
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