Jacqueline Dutton is Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She serves as Head of Arts Discovery - New Futures, the flagship program for commencing Arts students, and has held positions as Head of Languages and Convenor of French Studies. Her research specializations include Francophone and postcolonial studies, utopian literature, postcolonial cultures, travel writing, Francophonie, littérature-monde, jazz in French culture, French wine culture, and internationalisation of the curriculum in Arts foundation subjects. Dutton leads the French Wine Culture research project, analysing wine as a product of regional, national, and international geopolitics. She collaborates on international initiatives such as the CONVEXT project, digitising historical resources for winemaking cultures with partners at the University of Burgundy, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Dijon, and the UNESCO Chair of Cultures and Traditions of Wine.

Dutton has an extensive publication record in French studies. Key works include her edited volume Wine, Terroir and Utopia: Making New Worlds (Routledge, 2018, with Peter J. Howland), Le Rêve tasmanien: Utopia at the end of the earth (2016), Jazz Adventures in French Culture (2006), and contributions to volumes on transnational French studies and utopian paradigms. Selected articles are 'Internationalisation of the curriculum in an Arts foundation subject: A collaborative autoethnography' (2024), 'Perception and Acceptability of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Viticulture and Wine by Consumers from Mexico and Australia' (2024), 'Pourquoi terroir? Reflections on French influences on Australian winemakers' senses of place' (2023), 'Geographical Turns and Historical Returns in Narrating French Wine Culture', 'The Translingual Turn and French Literary Prize-winners: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (2021)' (2024), 'Shadow zones: dark travel and postcolonial cultures' (2015), 'J.M.G. Le Clézio: A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village' (2013), 'Francophonie and its Futures: Utopian, Digital, Plurivocal' (2011), 'Imagining Australia: Avatars of the Utopian Paradigm in French Writings on Australia' (2003), and 'Feeding Utopian Desires: Examples of the Cockaigne Legacy in French Literary Utopias' (2002). Her scholarship advances understandings of cultural history, memory, and transcultural products in contemporary French and Francophone contexts.

Professional Email: jld@unimelb.edu.au