Dr Louise Maurer
Research interests
Relationship between image and language: in particular
- Image literacy and types of discourse on images, including the creation
of image and text files as well as a CD-Rom to facilitate learning http://arts.anu.edu.au/languages/French/Orsay/index.htm
- Teaching culture in language: http://www.anu.edu.au/cedam/goodpractice/
- Interdisciplinary cross-cultural research
Culture in language: in particular
- mediation between cultures
- inter and cross cultural representations.
Selected Publications:
2003 Louise Maurer “Ce que peut apporter une pluralité
d’approches concernant la lecture de l’image plastique là
où un modèle linguistique à visée totalitaire
échoue” in Les Cahiers de L’Atelier de Recherche
sur le langage de l’Image (ARLI), Revue de l’Ecole Nationale
Supérieure de Cachan. 69-83
2003 Louise Maurer ‘Teaching French culture in language use”
chapter written in collaboration with Chantal Crozet, in Lo Bianco &
Crozet (eds), Teaching Invisible Culture, Classroom practice and Theory
Melbourne, Language Australia.
2002 Peter Brown, Chantal Crozet, Anthony J. Liddicoat and Louise Maurer,
‘French in Australia an overview of policies and practices’.
In K Sahli (ed.) French in and out of France: Language Politics, International
Antagonism and Dialogue, Peter Lang, Berne & New York, 2002. 263-290
2001 Louise Maurer, ‘Crossing the boundaries of language, culture,
genre and art forms’ In Killick, Parry & Phipps The Poetics
and Praxis of Languages and Intercultural Communication, conference
proceedings, vol 1 and 2, published jointly by University of Glasgow,
French and German Publications and Leeds Metropolitan University. 2001,
285-291.
2000 Louise Maurer, Piera Carroli and Roger Hillman ‘Teaching
literature across cultures and across artforms’, in Teaching languages,Teaching
cultures Liddicoat A& Crozet C (eds), Language Australia, 2000,
89-103.
2000 Louise Maurer, Jane Warren ‘Représentations de soi
et de l’autre dans des entretiens avec des intermédiaires
culturels australiens et français’, in Mots/Les langages
du politique no 64 décembre 2000, 77-97.
Courses
Core language & culture courses : Introductory French I and II,
Intermediate French I and II, Advanced French I and II.
Design and Participation in Courses offered to students of French,
Italian and German with a European focus and a cross-cultural dimension
to the study of modern European languages and art forms :
- Contemporary European Narrative (1999 and 2002): Literary and Visual,
with a focus on Michel Tournier the Erl-King and the paintings of Anselm
Kiefer.
- Language and Identity in a European Context (2000), with a focus on
language and identity in a cross-cultural perspective.
- Selected Topics in French Studies (2001) « Identité
et écriture de l’interculturel dans trois romans d’auteurs
contemporains : Claire Etcherelli Elize ou la vraie vie (taught
by Dr Muller), Jean-Marie Le Clézio La Quarantaine,
et Leïla Sebbar Shérazade»
Joint research projects undertaken with other institutions
Frontières culturelles/A study of xenophobic and xenophilic representations
in French and Australian public discourse (1998-2000) Coordinators of
the project, in France Prof Geneviève Zarate and in Australia
Prof Peter Cryle, University of Queensland.
Australian Coordinator for Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme
/ Handbook of Plurilingualism and Pluriculturalism (2004-2005) under
the direction of Geneviève Zarate, Professeur des Universités,
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris.
