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4.08/20/2025

Inspires confidence and independent thinking.

4.05/21/2025

Inspires confidence and independent thinking.

5.03/31/2025

Creates a collaborative learning environment.

4.02/27/2025

Always fair, encouraging, and motivating.

5.02/5/2025

Great Professor!

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About Joseph

Dr Joe Hardwick serves as a Lecturer in French in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, part of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Queensland and completed his PhD there in 2002 with a thesis entitled Romans et theses: French "existentialist" fiction, literary history and literary modernism. His academic interests focus on French cinema, French “existentialist” literature, narrative theory, queer theory, and cultural studies. Specific areas of expertise include the homme fatal in French cinema by directors such as Claude Chabrol, François Ozon, Anne Fontaine, Alain Guiraudie, Eric Lartigeau, and Claire Denis; queer cinema and literature in French across the Francophone world; and the mobile protagonist in French cinema, encompassing wanderer characters and loiterly figures. Current research projects examine mobility, marginality, and identity in le jeune cinéma français; representations of gay and bisexual male characters in French cinematic love triangles; and the transition from secondary to university French language learning.