Rate My Professor Charlotte Mackay

Dr. Charlotte Mackay is a Lecturer in European Languages (French and Francophone Studies) within the Faculty of Arts at Monash University. She holds a PhD in French and Comparative Literature, awarded jointly through a Cotutelle program by the University of Melbourne and Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) on 30 July 2021. Her doctoral thesis, titled "From Afropea to the Afro-Atlantic: A Study of four novels by Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome," serves as the foundation for her first monograph, Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome, published in January 2025 by Peter Lang in the Imagining Black Europe series. Having lived, studied, and traveled extensively across the Francophone world, including in Quebec, France, New Caledonia, and Cameroon, she brings firsthand experience to her academic pursuits.

Mackay's research centers on Sub-Saharan Francophone literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, diaspora and Black Atlantic paradigms, gender, trauma, memory studies, and ecocriticism, with a focused interest in the works of women authors from West and Central Africa, particularly Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano and Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome. Notable publications include "De la grande Histoire dans la petite: Mémoire du traumatisme anticolonial chez Léonora Miano" (Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, October 2025), "La menace multiforme et mutante: violence, écologie, genre et résistance dans Cœur du Sahel (2022) de Djaïli Amadou Amal" (Convergences Francophones, 2025), and "Des 'Liens de sang aux larmes de sang': Entretien avec l'écrivain néo-calédonien Yannick Jan" (The French Australian Review, February 2025). She currently leads the European Languages Decolonial Working Group at Monash University to decolonise, diversify, decentre, and indigenise European language and cultural studies, and serves as Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since June 2024. Her influence extends through organising events such as the Women in French Australia Seminar Series (2024), Graphic Narrative Symposium (2025), and Monash University Annual European Languages Lecture (2025), alongside invited public lectures like at the Forum de la Francophonie (March 2025). Major awards encompass the Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Black European Studies (2021), Liverpool University Press’ 2022 Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewers, Australian Society for French Studies School Liaison and Community Outreach Funds (2022 and 2023), and Faculty seed funding for decolonising initiatives (2024).