Rate My Professor Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan

Research specializations of Dr Vuaille-Barcan include French language and culture, French literature, literary translation theories and practice (especially English to French), foreign language acquisition, translation theory, literary analysis, and digital humanities. She investigates the impact of the translator's style on original texts, collaborative translation projects such as those in French crime fiction collections, and employs computational analysis like stylometry to identify translators' stylistic fingerprints. Current projects explore French newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement compared to Australian and American media. Key publications feature co-edited works such as Translating National Allegories: The Case of Crime Fiction (2018), Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série noire (2018), her translation Acier Austral (Southern Steel) (2015 with Dymphna Cusack), Masking Strategies: Unwrapping the French Paratext (2011 with Alistair Rolls), chapters on 'Boris Vian l'adaptateur adapté' (2020), and 'Transfert de langue, transfert de culture' (2012). She has earned awards including the 2017 Faculty of Education and Arts Dean's Award for Excellence, 2015 Faculty Dean's Team Award for Research Supervision Excellence, 2007 Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, and 2007 Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Vuaille-Barcan serves as President of the Alliance Française de Newcastle, fostering French language and culture, and has guest-edited the Australian Journal of French Studies (50, 2013).