Francoise Grauby

Françoise Grauby is an Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies within the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of Sydney. She completed her studies in France, obtaining a DEA from Aix-Marseille University, and began her teaching career in the 1980s in eastern France, including in a mining region. At the University of Sydney, she has served as Senior Lecturer, Head of French Studies, and Associate Professor, teaching units on French literature, cultural analysis, words, images, and traces in medieval literature, and other topics in French studies.

Grauby's research specializes in nineteenth-century French literature, popular beliefs and medical discourses on the body, literary creation processes, autofiction, and contemporary writers such as Hervé Guibert, Pierre Michon, Catherine Millet, Philippe Djian, and Michel Houellebecq. Her key publications include the monographs La création mythique à l’époque du Symbolisme (Nizet, 1994), Le corps de l’artiste: Discours médical et représentations littéraires de l’artiste au XIXe siècle (PUL, 2001), and Le roman de la création: Écrire entre mythes et pratiques (Rodopi, 2015). She has authored over 45 articles, among them “The Haiku of Urt”: Migrations of Roland Barthes (2011), “Sand’s Way”: The Voices of George Sand’s François the Waif in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (2015), Posture et performance d'auteur: Mises en scène de Houellebecq dans La Carte et le territoire (2018), Distance et proximité de la création: la grand-mère comme figure de la vocation dans À la recherche du temps perdu (2016), and Genre et vocation: La Vocation de Gustave Flaubert de René Dumesnil (1961) (2023). Grauby also wrote the novel Un cheval piaffe en moi (2004) and co-edited works on creative processes and writing workshops with Michelle Royer. Her interests include World Literatures, Literary Theory, Performing Arts, creative writing workshops in France, and discourses on alternative therapies. She has contributed prefaces, reviews, and articles to journals like Literature & Aesthetics and the Australian Journal of French Studies, enhancing French Studies scholarship.

Professional Email: francoise.grauby@sydney.edu.au