Emerita Professor Jean Fornasiero

  • Awards & Achievements

     

    Chevalier dans l'ordre des palmes académiques (2003); Officier (2015)


    Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

     

  • Publications

     

    2000-2021

     

    BOOKS

    French Designs on Colonial New South Wales, 1803-1810, a critical edition of François Péron’s Memoir on the English Settlements in New Holland, with introduction, translation and notes (co-author:  John West-Sooby), Adelaide, The Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2014, 396p.

     

    Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards, New York, 2015

    http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1937

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/francois-perons-french-lessons-in-the-colonisation-of-australia/story-fn9n8gph-1226872311601

     

    Encountering Terra Australis:  The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, 1800-1803, (co-authors:  Peter Monteath & John West-Sooby), Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2004, 411p.

    Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize, Sydney, 2005

    Revised edition 2010, 426p.

     

     

    EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

    (with Lindl Lawton & John West-Sooby)

    The Art of Science: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804, catalogue of the exhibition of the works of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit, held in the Natural History Museum of Le Havre, touring Australia from 2016-2018, opening at the South Australian Maritime Museum in June 2016, Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2016, 176p.

     

    Littoral (co-author: Vivonne Thwaites), Adelaide, 5 Star Print, 2010, catalogue of the exhibition which opened in Hobart, Carnegie Gallery, April 2010, featuring the marine works of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and responses from contemporary Australian artists, Aadje Bruce, Chris de Rosa, Julie Gough, Beverley Southcott, Toni Warburton, Judy Watson

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/collected-flotsam-and-jetsam-of-sea-culture/story-e6frg8n6-1225906070341

     

     

    EDITED VOLUMES

     i. BOOKS

    Roaming freely throughout the universe’: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science (co-editor: John West-Sooby), Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2021, 334p

    Intersections in Language Policy and Planning: Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures (co-editors: Sarah M.A. Reed, Rob Amery, Eric Bouvet, Kayoko Enomoto and Hui Ling Xu), Bern, Springer International Publishing, 2020, 539p.

    Reflections of a Philosophical Voyager: Nicolas Baudin’s Letter to Philip Gidley King, 24 December 1802, Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2016, 48p.

     

    (with Alistair Rolls & John West-Sooby)

    If I say If: The Poems and Short Stories of Boris Vian, Adelaide, Adelaide University Press, 2014, 412p.

     

    (with Rosemary Lloyd)

    Magnificent Obsessions. Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 231p.

     

    (with Nick Harvey, Greg McCarthy, Clem Macintyre, Carl Crossin)

    A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide, 1876-2012, Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, 2012, 401p.

     

     (with Colette Mrowa-Hopkins)

    Explorations and Encounters in French, Adelaide, Adelaide University Press, 2010, 319p.

     

    ii. SPECIAL NUMBERS OF REFEREED JOURNALS

     

    Practices of Translation (co-editors: Alistair Rolls, Marie-Lure Vuaille-Barcan & John West-Sooby), special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, L, 2, 2013, 146p.

     

    L’Utopie en mouvement (co-editors:  Thomas Bouchet & John West-Sooby), special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLIII, 3, 2006, 134p.

     

    The Baudin Expedition 1800-1804: Texts, Contexts and Subtexts (co-editors Margaret Sankey & Peter Cowley), special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLI, 2, 2004, 206p.

     

    Autour de Michèle Le Dœuff (co-editor: Margaret Sankey), special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XL, 3, 2003, 150p.

     

    TRANSLATIONS

    (with John West-Sooby)

    Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, Painter and Naturalist:  A Forgotten Treasure (English Translation of Cédric Crémière et Gabrielle Baglione, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, peintre et voyageur, un trésor oublié, Paris, Éditions de Conti, 2009), Paris, Éditions de Conti, 2016, 420p.

     

    BOOK CHAPTERS

    “Expédition Baudin – Science et politique. Les enjeux politiques du Voyage aux Terres australes” (co-author John West-Sooby), in Australie / Le Havre —L’intimité d’un lien, Paris MkF éditions, 2021, pp. 22-27

     

    “Nicolas Baudin, François Péron and the Changing of the Guard”, in J. Fornasiero & John West-Sooby (eds), ‘Roaming freely throughout the universe’: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science”, Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2021, pp. 1-7  

     

    “Jacques-Félix Emmanuel Hamelin: A Reluctant Scientific Voyager?”, in J. Fornasiero & J. West-Sooby (eds), ‘Roaming freely throughout the universe’: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science”, Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2021, pp. 249-266

     

    “Intersections: A Paradigm for Languages and Cultures?“ (co-authors: S.M.A. Reed, E. Bouvet, R. Amery, K. Enomoto & H.L. Xu) in Jean Fornasiero, Sarah M.A. Reed, Eric Bouvet, Robert Amery, Kayoko Enomoto, & Hui Ling Xu (eds), Intersections in Language Policy and Practice: Establishing Connections in Languages and Cultures, Bern, Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 3-14

     

    “Behind the Locked Door: Leblanc, Leroux and the Anxieties of the Belle Epoque”, (co-author: John West-Sooby), in Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King & Alistair Rolls (eds), Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp. 27-44

     

                Criminal Moves was short-listed for the International Crime Fiction Prize, 2020; https://www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net/book-prize.html#

     

    Towards a New Historiography: Re-reading the Archives of the Baudin Expedition“ (co-author: John West-Sooby), FrenchAustralian Shared Histories, 2018 Symposium, Imagination, Exploration, Memory, Canberra, National Archives of Australia, 2019

                http://naa.gov.au/naaresources/documents/french-symposium2018/JeanFornasiero-and-JohnWest-Sooby_English.pdf

     

    French version : “Retour aux archives: un nouveau regard sur l'expédition Baudin“ (co-author: John West-Sooby), Colloque Histoires partagées France-Australie,Symposium 2018, Imagination, Exploration, Mémoire, Canberra, National Archives of Australia, 2019

                http://naa.gov.au/naaresources/documents/french-symposium2018/JeanFornasiero_and_JohnWest-Sooby_Frn.pdf

     

    A Contested Coast? The Baudin-Flinders Encounter of April 1802” (co-author: John West-Sooby), in C. Collins & P. Sendziuk (eds), Foundational Fictions in South Australian History, Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2018, pp. 13-27

     

    “25 février 1830. La première d’Hernani”, in Jean-Noël Jeanneney & Jeanne Guérout (eds), L’Histoire de France vue d’ailleurs, Paris, Les Arènes, 2016, pp. 337-347

     

    “Reflections of a Philosophical Voyager” in Jean Fornasiero (ed. and trans), Reflections of a Philosophical Voyager: Nicolas Baudin’s Letter to Philip Gidley King, 24 December 1802, Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2016, pp. 5-16

     

    The Baudin Expedition: Glory, Disgrace and Redemption” (co-author: John West-Sooby), in J. Fornasiero, L. Lawton & J. West-Sooby (eds), The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1803, Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2016, pp. 33-46

     

    Unlocking Mysteries: Charting and Naming the Australian Coasts” (co-authors: Lindl Lawton & John West-Sooby), in J. Fornasiero, L. Lawton & J. West-Sooby (eds), The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1803, Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2016, pp. 101-119

     

    “Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803): From Seafarer to Philosophical Traveller” (co-authors: John West-Sooby & Margaret Sankey), in Ivan Barko and Eric Berti (eds), French Australian Biographies, North Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015, pp. 36-56

     

    “Framing New South Wales or Framing a Narrative?  A Representation of Sydney by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur”, in N. Edwards, B. McCann, P. Poiana (eds), Framing French Culture, Adelaide, Adelaide University Press, 2015, pp. 81-102

     

    “Cross-cultural Inquiry in 1802:  Musical Performance on the Baudin Expedition to Australia” (co-author: John West-Sooby), in K. Darian Smith and P. Edmonds (eds), Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance, and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim, New York/Abingdon, UK, Routledge, Studies in Cultural History series, 34, 2015, pp. 17-35

     

    "Boris Vian, a Life in Paradox" (co-authors: Alistair Rolls & John West-Sooby), in A. Rolls, J. West-Sooby & J. Fornasiero (eds), If I say If: The Poems and Short Stories of Boris Vian, Adelaide, Adelaide University Press, 2014, pp. 1-12

     

    “The Acquisitive Eye:  Nicolas Baudin in the Wake of Bougainville and La Pérouse” (co-author : John West-Sooby), in J. West-Sooby (ed.), Discovery and Empire:  the French in the South Seas, Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, 2013, pp. 69-98

     

    A Tale of Resilience:  the History of Modern European Languages at the University of Adelaide” (co-author:  John West-Sooby), in N. Harvey, J. Fornasiero, G. McCarthy, C. Macintyre, C. Crossin (eds), A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide, 1876-2012, Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, 2012, pp. 133-180

     

    “Cartography as Narrative:  The Maps of the Baudin Expedition” (co-author : John West-Sooby), in R. Gerritsen, R. King & A. Eliason (eds), The Freycinet Map of 1811:  200th Anniversary of the Publication of the First Map of Australia, Canberra, Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, 2012, pp. 20-32

    “Naming and Shaming: The Baudin Expedition and the Nomenclature of Terra Australis” (co-author:  John West-Sooby), in A. Hiatt, A. Scott, C. Wortham (eds), European Perceptions of Terra Australis, London, Ashgate, 2011, pp. 141-158

    Covering up : Translating the Art of Australian Crime Fiction into French(co-author : John West-Sooby), in A. Rolls & M.-L. Vuaille-Barcan (eds) Masking Strategies:  Unwrapping the French Paratext, Bern, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 119-135

    “Music from the Littoral”, in J. Fornasiero & V. Thwaites (eds), Littoral, Adelaide, 2010, pp. 30-35

     

    “Charles-Alexandre Lesueur:  An Art of the Littoral”, in J. Fornasiero & V. Thwaites (eds), Littoral, Adelaide, 2010, pp. 12-19

     

    “Explorations and Encounters in French:  On the Uses of a Theme” (with C. Mrowa-Hopkins), in J. Fornasiero and C. Mrowa-Hopkins (eds), Explorations and Encounters in French, Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, 2010, pp. 21-34

     

    “Doing it by the Book:  Breaking the Reputation of Nicolas Baudin” (co-author:  John West-Sooby), in J. Fornasiero & C. Mrowa-Hopkins (eds), Explorations and Encounters in French, Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, 2010, pp. 135-164

     

    “Wakefield Queens of Crime Go to Paris: The Publishing Adventures of Patricia Carlon and Charlotte Jay”, in A. Rolls (ed.), Mostly French. French (in) Detective Fiction, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 141-156

     

    “Mécènes de l’utopie fin-de-siècle:  le cas de Paul Adam et Emile Zola”, in J. West-Sooby (ed.), Nowhere is Perfect:  French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias, Newark, University of Delaware Press, Monash Romance Studies, 2008, pp. 108-122

     

    “Of Rivalry and Reputation:  Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders“ in M.S. Rivière & K. Issur (eds), Baudin et Flinders dans l’océan Indien:  Voyages, Découvertes, Rencontre, Paris:  L’Harmattan, 2006, pp. 157-177

     

     “An Appetite for Discovery.  The Culinary Adventures of Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin in Terra Australis” (co-author:  John West-Sooby), in A. L. Martin & B. Santich (eds), Gastronomic Encounters, Brompton, SA, East Street Publications, 2004, pp. 21-34

     

    “Nerval se met à table:  les aveux d’un buveur démocratique entre la République et le second Empire”, in John West-Sooby (ed.), Consuming Culture:  The Arts of the French Table, Newark:  University of Delaware Press, Monash Romance Studies, 2004, pp. 108-117

     

    “A Fourierist in South Australia.  The Colonial Adventures of Arthur Young” in S. Williams, D. Lonergan. R. Hosking, L. Deane & N. Bierbaum (eds), The Regenerative Spirit, volume 2:  (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations – Australian Post-Colonial Reflections, Adelaide:  Lythrum Press, 2004, pp. 76-85

     

    “Taming the Unknown:  Representation of Terra Australis by the Baudin Expedition 1801-1803”, (co-author:  John West-Sooby), in A. Chittleborough, G. Dooley, B. Glover & R. Hosking (eds), Alas for the Pelicans!  Flinders, Baudin and beyond.  Essays and Poems, Kent Town:  Wakefield Press, 2002, pp. 59-80

     

     

    REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

     

    “Translating Friendship: Nerval, Tessié du Motay andHeine’s Die Nordsee” (co-author: John West-Sooby), Australian Journal of French Studies, LVII, 1, 2020, pp. 78-92

     

    “The French Revolution and the Politics of Scientific Voyaging” (co-author: John West-Sooby), French Australian Review, 64, Winter 2017, pp. 3-18

    “Matthew Flinders through French Eyes: Nicolas Baudin’s Lessons from Encounter Bay” (co-author: John West-Sooby), Journal of Pacific History, 52, 1, 2017, pp.1-14

     

    “The ‘new and singular bird’ of St Peter Island” (co-authors:  Andrew Black, Phillipa Horton & Justin Jansen), South Australian Ornithologist, 42, 1, December 2016, pp. 1-10

     

    Voyages et déplacements des savoirs. Les expéditions de Nicolas Baudin entre Révolution et Empire” (co-author: John West-Sooby), Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 382, 3, 2016, pp. 23-45

     

    “East or West: to which subspecies does the type specimen of the Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Cacatuidae), belong?” (co-authors: Richard Schodde & Andrew Black), Zootaxa,  4067, 4, 2016, pp. 489493

     

    “The Narrative Interruptions of Science:  the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804)” (co-author: John West-Sooby), Forum for Modern Language Studies, special number on ‘Interrupted Itineraries’, 49, 4, 2013, pp. 457-471

     

    “Translating Nice Try into Bien joué.  Going for the Paris End of Shane Maloney’s Melbourne” (co-author: John West-Sooby), Australian Journal of French Studies, special number on ‘Practices of Translation’, 2, 2013, pp. 206-220

     

    “The Practices of Translation” (co-authors: A. Rolls, M.-L. Vuaille-Barcan & John West-Sooby), special number on ‘Practices of Translation’, Australian Journal of French Studies, L, 2, 2013, pp. 153-156 

    Appellation d’origine contrôlée ? Pour une taxonomie des titres de la Série Noire(co-author: John West-Sooby), special number on ‘Paratext revisited’, Essays in French Literature and Culture, 49, November 2012, pp. 97-116.

     

    “ ‘Strangers on the Shore’:  Musical Exchanges in Terra Australis, 1802”, Explorations, 50, 2011, pp. 4-15

     

    “Deux observateurs de l’homme aux antipodes:  Nicolas Baudin et François Péron”, in M. Jangoux (ed.), Portés par l’air du temps, les voyages de Nicolas Baudin, Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle, 38, 2010, pp. 157-170

     

    “Le philosophe du phalanstère:  quelques retouches au portrait d’Arthur Young (1810-1890)”, Cahiers Charles Fourier, 20, 2009, pp. 23-40

     

    “2008, année  utopique:  Fourier et son héritage”, Australian Journal of French Studies, XLV, 1, 2008, pp. 73-80

     

    “Vers une histoire du fouriérisme à l’île Maurice”, Cahiers Charles Fourier, 18, 2007, pp. 67-77

     

    “Old Quarrels and New Approaches:  Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin” (co-authors Peter Monteath & John West-Sooby), South Australian Geographical Journal, 106, 2007, pp. 1-15

     

    “Hydrographic Reputations:  Matthew Flinders, Nicolas Baudin and Australia’s Unknown Coast” (co-authors Peter Monteath & John West-Sooby), The Hydrographic Journal, 121, July 2006, pp. 17-23

     

    “Aux origines du roman criminel:  Eugène Sue et les mystères de la Seine”, (co-author:  John West-Sooby), French noir, special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLIII, 1, 2006, pp. 3-12

     

    “L’Utopie en mouvement:  retour sur Fourier et le XIXe siècle” (co-authors:  Thomas Bouchet & John West-Sooby), L’Utopie en mouvement, special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLIII, 3, 2006, pp. 219-223

     

    “Les Financiers de l’utopie:  représentations et réalités du mécénat quarante-huitard”, L’Utopie en mouvement, special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLIII, 3, 2006, pp. 322-332

     

    “Poètes et artistes au banquet fouriériste de 1840”, L’Utopie en mouvement, special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLIII, 3, 2006, pp. 292-297

     

    “A Cordial Encounter?  The Meeting of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, 8-9 April 1802”, (co-author:  John West-Sooby), French History and Civilization.  Papers from the George Rudé Seminar, 1, 2005, pp 53-61

    http://www.h-france.net/rude/2005conference/West-Sooby2.pdf

     

    L’Ile mystérieuse dans le maelström de l’Histoire”, Jules Verne, special number of Australian Journal of French Studies, XLII, 3, 2005, pp. 295-302

     

    “Notes in the Margins:  Bougainville, Freycinet and the Baudin Expedition” (co-author:  Peter Monteath & John West-Sooby), Australian Journal of French Studies, XLI, 2, 2004, pp. 186-193

     

    “The Baudin Expedition in Review:  Old Quarrels and New Approaches” (co-authors:  Margaret Sankey & Peter Cowley), Australian Journal of French Studies, XLI, 2, 2004, pp. 4-14

     

    “Introduction” (co-author:  Margaret Sankey), special number on Michèle Le Dœuff, Australian Journal of French Studies, XL, 3, 2003, pp. 237-243

     

    “Baudin’s Books” (co-author:  John West-Sooby), Australian Journal of French Studies, XXXIX, 3, 2002, pp. 215-249

     

     

     

     

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    CategoriesHistory, Literature & Publishing
    ExpertiseFrench exploration in the Pacific; Baudin Expedition to Australia 1800-1804; French-Australian connections; History of Ideas in 19th century France; Utopian Socialism; Translation Studies; French Detective Fiction
    NotesChevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes academiques 2003

    Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize 2005

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