School of Languages and Cultures

Dr Beth Kearney

French Discipline
Casual Academic
School of Languages and Cultures
portrait of Beth Kearney at the Great Court

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Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (17)
Theses (2)
Newspaper Articles (6)

Book Chapter

Kearney, Beth and Thomas, Bonnie (2024). History or Herstory: Photography in Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, soleil noir (2021). Women’s historical fiction across the globe. edited by Karunika Kardak and Catherine Barbour. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

Campbell, Francoise and Kearney, Beth (2024). Introduction: Ambivalence as agency in contemporary francophone narratives of selfhood. Francospheres, 13 (2 (Special issue)), 65-75. doi: 10.3828/franc.2024.6
Kearney, Beth (2024). Lydia Flem. The Literary Encylopedia.
Kearney, Beth (2024). Happening again: why an abortion story matters. Mai.
Kearney, Beth (2024). Review of Andrea Oberhuber. Faire œuvre à deux: Le livre surréaliste au féminin. Montréal, QC: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2024. L'Esprit Créateur, 64 (3), 113-114. doi: 10.1353/esp.2024.a941901
Kearney, Beth (2024). Francophone and French studies: literature, 2000 to the present day. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 84 (1), 65-92. doi: 10.1163/22224297-08401043
Barnes, Leslie and Kearney, Beth (2024). Portrait of a lost paradise: diasporic delusions in Linda Lê's Héroïnes. L'Esprit Créateur, 63 (4), 112-124. doi: 10.1353/esp.2023.a919693
Kearney, Beth (2023). Rev. of Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives Edited by Marleen Rensen and Christopher Wiley. Auto/Biography Studies, 39 (1), 1-5. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2254156
Kearney, Beth (2023). “L’Histoire se lit dans la rue”: Urban streetscapes as sites of a fragmented identity in Colette Fellous’s Avenue de France. Australian Journal of French Studies, 60 (2), 136-148. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2023.13
Kearney, Beth and Thomas, Bonnie (2022). Uncovering Adrienne Fidelin: disorderly subjectivity in Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, soleil noir (2021). Francosphères, 11 (2), 227-245. doi: 10.3828/franc.2022.17
Kearney, Beth (2022). Review of Autofiction: a female Francophone aesthetic of exile, by Antonia Wimbush, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2021, 272 pp.. Modern and Contemporary France, 31 (3), 432-433. doi: 10.1080/09639489.2022.2123789
Kearney, Beth Fenn (2021). 'Je suis amoureuse de la forêt, comme du fleuve': partage et merveilleux dans la collaboration photolittéraire de S. Corinna Bille et Suzi Pilet. La Revue internationale de Photolittérature (3).
Kearney, Beth (2020). 'Un gouffre d'où il était illusoire d'essayer de sortir': sociopoétique de la ville napolitaine dans L'amie prodigieuse d'Elena Ferrante. Sociopoétiques (5).
Kearney, Beth Fenn (2020). « Un dimanche à Mytilène » : topographies de l’exotisme dans Dons des féminines (1951) de Valentine Penrose. Postures, 31.
Kearney, Beth Fenn (2020). The Nemesis of an Infamous Hungarian Countess: Hybris and Faustianism in La Comtesse sanglante (1962) by Valentine Penrose. MuseMedusa, 8.
Kearney, Beth (2019). « Traversé de fantômes ». La hantise intermédiale d’ Y penser sans cesse de Marie NDiaye et de Denis Cointe. Sens public.
Kearney, Beth (2018). L'art féministe de Niki de Saint Phalle. Dire, 27 (3), 18-24.
Kearney, Beth (2018). Camille Claudel as modern di Butades. MuseMedusa, 6.

Theses

Kearney, Beth (2024). Unfixing self: twenty-first century women’s phototexts in French. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/bba0a6a
Kearney, Beth (2020). Figures de femmes chez Valentine Penrose : à la croisée du saphisme littéraire et du roman gothique. M.A. Thesis, Département des littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal.

Newspaper Articles

Kearney, Beth (2024, 09 01). Get specific: facing life in all its gritty detail Australian Book Review
Kearney, Beth (2024, 07 19). Beth Kearney reviews Consent by Vanessa Springora Asymptote
Egan, Frances and Kearney, Beth (2023, 01 11). How autofiction turns the personal into the political The Conversation
Kearney, Beth (2017, 08 12). Fictitious Realities Memo Review
Kearney, Beth (2017, 04 22). Bill Henson Memo Review
Kearney, Beth (2017, 01 28). Ramesh Nithiyendran Memo Review