Dr Julie Rodgers
French Studies, Motherhood Project, School of Modern Languages
Associate professor - Head of Subject
Biography
I graduated with a BA Hons in French and English from Trinity College Dublin in 2000. I obtained a First Class with Distinction in Spoken French and was awarded the Prix de l'Ambassade for first place in the French finals (TCD). Following a year as lectrice d'anglais at the University of Lille 1, I returned to Trinity to begin a Ph.D on Quebec Women's Writing under the supervision of Professor Emeritus David Parris (and funded by TCD). Since completing my Ph.D, I have lectured in French language and literature at Maynooth as well as one semester at Liverpool University. My research areas include the following: Contemporary Women's Writing in French; Contemporary Women's Cinema in French; Quebec Literature; Migrant Writing; and, Maternal Narratives. I am the former secretary of ADEFFI (Irish Association for French Studies) and former president of ACSI (Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland). I currently serve on the board of the Franco-Irish Literary Festival. I also hold a PGDHE from Maynooth University and am interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning at third level. I am a native of the inimitable city of Derry and like to return there regularly. I also have strong attachments to the small town of Lorient in Brittany (France) where I spent several years as a jeune fille au-pair and a teaching assistant. In 2019, I was awarded a Flaherty Scholarship from ICUF (Ireland Canada University Fund) for my work on Quebec literature. In 2021, I was awarded a D'Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship which I held at Concordia University.
Research Interests
Motherhood, Maternal Maternal Health, Contemporary French and Francophone Women's Writing, Feminism, Contemporary French and Francophone Film, Quebec Literature and Culture.
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco' In: Single Parents: Representations and Resistance in an International Context. London : Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71311-9 | |
| 2021 | Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Understanding and Recognising Voluntary Non-Motherhood' In: Maternal Theory: Essential Readings. York : Demeter. | |
| 2021 | Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Choosing to be Childfree in Lucie Joubert's L'Envers du landau' In: Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century. London : Routledge. [Link] | |
| 2018 | Julie Rodgers (2018) 'Double Voices and Splintered Selves: The Dual Dialectic of Anorexia in Ying Chen' In: Starvation, Food, Obsession and Identity: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women's Writing. Oxford, Bern : Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b10998 | |
| 2017 | Julie Rodgers (2017) 'Mapping the Migrant Landscape in Gabrielle Roy' In: Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)viewed. Waterloo : Wilfred Laurier Press. | |
| 2016 | Julie Rodgers (2016) 'If you don't have children, you must be...: Linda Lê's A l'enfant que je n'aurai pas and Voluntary Non-Motherhood' In: Women's Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. London : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Julie Rodgers (2016) 'Ying Chen's Fictional Universe' In: Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press. | |
| 2014 | Julie Rodgers (2014) 'Lisa Baraitser and a New Ethics of Mothering' In: Motherhing and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives. Toronto : Demeter Press. | |
| 2013 | Julie Rodgers (2013) 'Towards a Positive Representation of Ageing: Old-Age in the Writings of Gabrielle Roy' In: As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press. | |
| 2013 | Rodgers, J (2013) 'Rewriting the Mother-Daughter Plot: Fete des meres by Florence Emptaz' In: EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIENCE: WOMEN'S WRITING IN FRANCE 2000-2010. FRANKFURT : PETER LANG GMBH. | |
| 2008 | Julie Rodgers (2008) 'Immigration from a Québécois Perspective: Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique (Francine Noël)' In: Canada: Text and Territory. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press. | |
| 2008 | Julie Rodgers (2008) 'Francine Noël: Entretien' In: Canada: Text and Territory. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press. | |
| 2021 | Rodgers, J.A. (2021) 'Understanding the trauma of pervasive pregnancy denial in L'enfant que je n'attendais pas' In: Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture. [Link] [DOI] |
Edited Book
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Rodgers; Gorman (2023) 'On ne peut rien contre une fille qui rêve: Teenage Pregnancy as Maternal Entrapment or Maternal Empowerment in 17 Filles'. MODERN LANGUAGES OPEN JOURNAL, 23 (1). [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Julie Rodgers (2022) ''Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist Retraditionalism in La Vie d'une autre''. Modern and Contemporary France, 30 (1):19-31. [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Rodgers, J (2021) 'Narrating the Final Loss: Scenes from the Maternal Deathbed in Gabrielle Roy's Le temps qui m'a manque and Francine Noel's La femme de ma vie'. Esprit Createur, 61 :40-53. | |
| 2020 | Rodgers, J (2020) 'Deviant Care: Chanson douce and the Killer Nanny'. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 :381-395. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Rodgers J. (2019) 'The emergent posthuman landscape in Ying Chen’s La rive est loin'. Quebec Studies, 68 :101-120. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Julie Rodgers (2019) 'Telling the Untellable: Negotiating Maternal Bereavement in Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée'. Irish Journal of French Studies, 19 :165-185. https://doi.org/10.7173/164913319827945729 [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Julie Rodgers, Elise Hugueny-Léger (2019) 'Untimely Mourning: Representing Child Death and Parental Mourning in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Culture'. Irish Journal of French Studies, 19 :1-10. https://doi.org/10.7173/164913319827945783 [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Rodgers, J. (2019) 'Tearing up the rulebook: Feminist mothering in Kay Mellor's in the Club'. Journal Of Popular Television, 7 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Rodgers, J (2018) 'On the Margins of Motherhood: Choosing to Be Child-Free in Lucie Joubert's L'Envers du landau (2010)'. Women: A Cultural Review, 29 :75-96. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2016 | Julie Rodgers (2016) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 76 :82-89. | |
| 2015 | Julie Rodgers (2015) 'Ying Chen and Nomadic Figurations of the Subject'. Quebec Studies, 59 :51-70. | |
| 2013 | Rodgers, J (2013) 'IN DEFENCE OF SHOPPING: A CONSIDERATION OF THE PLEASURABLE, PLAYFUL AND EMPOWERING POTENTIAL OF CONSUMERISM IN SELECTED WORKS BY GABRIELLE ROY'. Nottingham French Studies, 52 :97-112. [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Julie Rodgers (2013) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 73 :77-81. [Full-Text] | |
| 2012 | Julie Rodgers (2012) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 72 :170-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/yearworkmodlang.72.2010.0170 | |
| 2012 | Julie Rodgers (2012) 'Comment peut-on être Moi quand on est Mère: Une étude de la maternité dans Un enfant à ma porte de Ying Chen'. International Journal of Canadian Studies, 45-46 :403-417. [Full-Text] | |
| 2012 | Julie Rodgers (2012) 'Contesting the Mommy Myth: Un heureux evenement (Eliette Abecassis) as Maternal Counternarrative'. Irish Journal of French Studies, 12 :43-64. [Full-Text] | |
| 2012 | Julie Rodgers (2012) 'Body Politics in Truismes: The Tyranny of Slenderness'. Dalhousie French Studies, 98 :29-39. [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Julie Rodgers (2011) 'Illness and its Metaphors: Conceptualizing Cancer in Une mort tres douce'. Irish Journal of French Studies, 11 :47-62. [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Julie Rodgers (2011) 'La dualité de l'être chez Ying Chen'. Dialogues Francophones, 17 :81-91. | |
| 2010 | Julie Rodgers (2010) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 71 :215-221. | |
| 2009 | Julie Rodgers (2009) 'La relation mère-fille dans La femme de ma vie de Francine Noël'. Francofonia, 57 :89-99. [Full-Text] | |
| 2008 | Julie Rodgers (2008) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 70 :230-235. | |
| 2007 | Julie Rodgers (2007) 'Redefining Quebec Identity in Francine Noël's Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique'. The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 22 :115-127. |
Book Review
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Honors and Awards
Outreach Activities
| Organisation | Type | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTE | Civic Society | Invited to speak on the topic of motherhood with Dr Valerie Heffernan. [Link] | |
| The Irish Independent | Civic Society | Consultation service for articles on Motherhood. |
Teaching Interests
Contemporary Women's Writing; Narratives of Mothering; Quebec Literature, Culture and Cinema; Contemporary French Cinema; Feminism.