Rate My Professor Marie Biquette

Ms Marie Biquette serves as a Lecturer at Curtin University’s Mauritius campus, the Charles Telfair Institute, within the Global Curtin portfolio. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, where she teaches courses such as COMS2001 Asian Media in Transition. Her teaching focuses on media, cultural studies, communication, and English. Biquette has contributed to curriculum development, co-designing the unit “Culture to Cultures” and a cultural immersion trail for first-year students alongside colleagues Chaya Seewoonarain and Zaid Timol.

Biquette engages students through interactive sessions, including a lecture on the impact of Information Systems and AI on culture for BCom students, and an official training on public speaking for 2019 JCI Mauritius National Public Speaking Championship candidates. Academically, she co-authored a chapter in the 2023 Routledge publication 'Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia' with Nirvana Lavictoire and Professor Toni Dobinson. She holds a Master's degree from the Erasmus Mundus Crossways in Cultural Narratives program (2014-2016). In 2017, she was Lecturer in Communication and English at the Charles Telfair Campus. She has participated in collaborations, such as research involving Curtin Mauritius and other institutions, and contributed to conference proceedings like 'Envisioning the Futures of Education through Research' (2023).