Charlotte Grace Mackay

Charlotte Mackay is a Lecturer in European Languages (French and Francophone Studies). She completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Melbourne and Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) in 2021 through a jointly-awarded Cotutelle degree. Charlotte has lived, studied and travelled throughout the Francophone world - most notably in Quebec, France, New Caledonia and Cameroon. She wrote her doctoral thesis on Francophone literature and specifically the contemporary writing of women authors from Sub-Saharan Africa (West and Central). Her research interests include Sub-Saharan Francophone literature, postcolonial/decolonial, diaspora, Black Atlantic, gender, epistemological, trauma, memory and ecocritical studies. She has a particular interest in the fiction of Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano and in that of Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome. Her first monograph based on her doctoral research is due for publication in late 2024.