Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan

Work Phone	(02) 4921 5550
Fax	(02) 4921 6949
Email	Marie-laure.Vuaille-barcan@newcastle.edu.au
Position	Senior Lecturer School of Humanities and Social Science The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office	MCG41, McMullin

Biography

Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan was born in Lyon, France. Since 1995 she has been a French lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Since her studies in didactics of languages and cultures, she has taken a keen interest in developing various techniques of teaching French as a foreign language, adapted to the Australian students.

She has also developed a passion for the many challenges raised by literary translation, especially the transfer of culture-specific items. Her PhD, completed in 2007, focused on the translation into French of the Australian novel “Southern Steel”, by Dymphna Cusack, in which she analyses the issues of translation with the insight from recent translation theories and explains the original ambitions of an author who, even if she is often underrated nowadays, holds a significant position within the Australian literary tradition.

Marie-Laure’s first book, based on her PhD and entitled Transfert de Langue, Transfert De Culture: La Traduction en français de “Southern Steel”, de l'Australienne Dymphna Cusack, has just been published by Peter Lang.

She is currently working with Dr Alistair Rolls and other colleagues from the University of Adelaide on an analysis of the translation of Australian crime fiction into French.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Newcastle, 2007
Diplome d'Etudes Superieures Specialisees, University of Lumiere, Lyon II, France
Maitrise, University of Lumiere, Lyon II, France
Licence de Lettres (BALitt), University of Lumiere, Lyon II, France

Research

Research keywords

Foreign language acquisition
Literary analysis
Translation theory

Research expertise

French language in society

Languages

English
French

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
200599	Literary Studies Not Elsewhere Classified	70
080699	Information Systems Not Elsewhere Classified	15
200399	Language Studies Not Elsewhere Classified	15

Teaching

Teaching keywords

French culture
French language
French literature

Teaching interests

Literary translation techniques (English - French)
Didactics of French as a Foreign Language
Development of computer materials for enhancing skills acquisition in French (Specific project: computer support of grammar review in French)