Rate My Professor Charlotte Mackay

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).