Dr Julie Rodgers

    French Studies, Motherhood Project, School of Modern Languages

    Assistant Professor

    Arts Building
    28
    (01) 708 3719

    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. 

    Research Projects

      Project Role Funding Body / Program Description Start Date End Date Award (€)
    Peadar Kearney IRC GOIPG Blurred Boundaries: Post-Identity in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema PI Irish Research Council (IRC) / Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Peadar Kearney IRC GOIPG Scholarship 2020 01-OCT-20 30-SEP-21 26624.94
    Motherhood Project Investigator /

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2021 'Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco'
    Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco' In: Berit Astrom and Disa Bergnehr (eds). Single Parents: Representations and Resistance in an International Context. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]
    2021 'Understanding and Recognising Voluntary Non-Motherhood'
    Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Understanding and Recognising Voluntary Non-Motherhood' In: Andrea O'Reilly (eds). Maternal Theory: Essential Readings. York: Demeter. [Details]
    2021 ''Acknowledging the Trauma of Pervasive Pregnancy Denial in L'Enfant que je n'attendais pas''
    Julie Rodgers (2021) ''Acknowledging the Trauma of Pervasive Pregnancy Denial in L'Enfant que je n'attendais pas'' In: Laura Lazzari and Natalie Ségeral (eds). Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
    2021 'Choosing to be Childfree in Lucie Joubert's L'Envers du landau'
    Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Choosing to be Childfree in Lucie Joubert's L'Envers du landau' In: Valerie Heffernan and Gay Wilgus (eds). Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge. [Details]
    2018 'Double Voices and Splintered Selves: The Dual Dialectic of Anorexia in Ying Chen'
    Julie Rodgers (2018) 'Double Voices and Splintered Selves: The Dual Dialectic of Anorexia in Ying Chen' In: Petra Bagley, Francesca Calamita and Kathryn Robson (eds). Starvation, Food, Obsession and Identity: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women's Writing. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang. [DOI] [Details]
    2017 'Mapping the Migrant Landscape in Gabrielle Roy'
    Julie Rodgers (2017) 'Mapping the Migrant Landscape in Gabrielle Roy' In: Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas, Caitriona Ni Chasaide (eds). Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)viewed. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press. [Details]
    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'
    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: Florence Ramond Jurney, Karen McPherson (eds). Women's Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]
    2016 'Ying Chen's Fictional Universe'
    Julie Rodgers (2016) 'Ying Chen's Fictional Universe' In: Marie Carrière, Jason Purcell (eds). Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. [Details]
    2014 'Lisa Baraitser and a New Ethics of Mothering'
    Julie Rodgers (2014) 'Lisa Baraitser and a New Ethics of Mothering' In: Petra Bueskens (eds). Motherhing and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives. Toronto: Demeter Press. [Details]
    2013 'Towards a Positive Representation of Ageing: Old-Age in the Writings of Gabrielle Roy'
    Julie Rodgers (2013) 'Towards a Positive Representation of Ageing: Old-Age in the Writings of Gabrielle Roy' In: Joy Charney and Caroline Verdier (eds). As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]
    2013 'Rewriting the Mother-Daughter Plot: Fete des meres by Florence Emptaz'
    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. [Details]
    2008 'Immigration from a Québécois Perspective: Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique (Francine Noël)'
    Julie Rodgers (2008) 'Immigration from a Québécois Perspective: Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique (Francine Noël)' In: Máire Aine Ni Mhainnín, Elizabeth Tilley (eds). Canada: Text and Territory. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]
    2008 'Francine Noël: Entretien'
    Julie Rodgers (2008) 'Francine Noël: Entretien' In: Máire Aine Ni Mhainnín, Elizabeth Tilley (eds). Canada: Text and Territory. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details]

    Edited Books

      Year Publication
    2021 The Truth about (M)Otherhood: Choosing to be Childfree
    Helen Cummings, Julie Rodgers, Judith Wouk (Ed.). (2021) The Truth about (M)Otherhood: Choosing to be Childfree Toronto: Demeter Press. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2021 'Narrating the Final Loss: Scenes from the Maternal Deathbed in Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noël'
    Julie Rodgers (2021) 'Narrating the Final Loss: Scenes from the Maternal Deathbed in Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noël'. Esprit Createur, 61 (1):40-53 [Details]
    2021 ''Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist Retraditionalism in La Vie d'une autre''
    Julie Rodgers (2021) ''Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist Retraditionalism in La Vie d'une autre''. Modern and Contemporary France, [DOI] [Details]
    2020 ''Deviant Care and the Killer Nanny in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce''
    Julie Rodgers (2020) ''Deviant Care and the Killer Nanny in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce''. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 (3):381-395 [DOI] [Details]
    2019 'Telling the Untellable: Negotiating Maternal Bereavement in Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée'
    Julie Rodgers (2019) 'Telling the Untellable: Negotiating Maternal Bereavement in Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée'. Irish Journal of French Studies, 19 :165-185 [DOI] [Details]
    2019 'Tearing up the Rulebook: Feminist Mothering in Kay Mellors' In the Club'
    Julie Rodgers (2019) 'Tearing up the Rulebook: Feminist Mothering in Kay Mellors' In the Club'. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 7 (3):353-369 [DOI] [Details]
    2019 'Untimely Mourning: Representing Child Death and Parental Mourning in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Culture'
    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 [DOI] [Details]
    2019 'The emergent posthuman landscape in Ying Chen’s La rive est loin'
    Rodgers J. (2019) 'The emergent posthuman landscape in Ying Chen’s La rive est loin'. Quebec Studies, 68 :101-120 [DOI] [Details]
    2018 'On the Margins of Motherhood: Choosing to Be Child-Free in Lucie Joubert's L'Envers du landau (2010)'
    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] [Details]
    2016 'French Canadian Literature'
    Julie Rodgers (2016) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 76 :82-89 [Details]
    2015 'Ying Chen and Nomadic Figurations of the Subject'
    Julie Rodgers (2015) 'Ying Chen and Nomadic Figurations of the Subject'. Quebec Studies, 59 :51-70 [Details]
    2013 'French Canadian Literature'
    Julie Rodgers (2013) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 73 :77-81 [full-text] [Details]
    2013 'IN DEFENCE OF SHOPPING: A CONSIDERATION OF THE PLEASURABLE, PLAYFUL AND EMPOWERING POTENTIAL OF CONSUMERISM IN SELECTED WORKS BY GABRIELLE ROY'
    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] [Details]
    2012 'Body Politics in Truismes: The Tyranny of Slenderness'
    Julie Rodgers (2012) 'Body Politics in Truismes: The Tyranny of Slenderness'. Dalhousie French Studies, 98 :29-39 [full-text] [Details]
    2012 'Contesting the Mommy Myth: Un heureux evenement (Eliette Abecassis) as Maternal Counternarrative'
    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] [Details]
    2012 'French Canadian Literature'
    Julie Rodgers (2012) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 72 :170-174 [DOI] [Details]
    2012 'Comment peut-on être Moi quand on est Mère: Une étude de la maternité dans Un enfant à ma porte de Ying Chen'
    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] [Details]
    2011 'Illness and its Metaphors: Conceptualizing Cancer in Une mort tres douce'
    Julie Rodgers (2011) 'Illness and its Metaphors: Conceptualizing Cancer in Une mort tres douce'. Irish Journal of French Studies, 11 :47-62 [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'La dualité de l'être chez Ying Chen'
    Julie Rodgers (2011) 'La dualité de l'être chez Ying Chen'. Dialogues Francophones, 17 :81-91 [Details]
    2010 'French Canadian Literature'
    Julie Rodgers (2010) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 71 :215-221 [Details]
    2009 'La relation mère-fille dans La femme de ma vie de Francine Noël'
    Julie Rodgers (2009) 'La relation mère-fille dans La femme de ma vie de Francine Noël'. Francofonia, 57 :89-99 [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'French Canadian Literature'
    Julie Rodgers (2008) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 70 :230-235 [Details]
    2007 'Redefining Quebec Identity in Francine Noël's Nous avons tous découvert l'Amérique'
    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 [Details]

    Published Reports

      Year Publication
    2011 Using Moodle to Facilitate Discussion in Large Groups.
    Julie Rodgers (2011) Using Moodle to Facilitate Discussion in Large Groups. CTL, Maynooth. [Details]

    Book Review

      Year Publication
    2020 I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing.
    Rodgers, J (2020) I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women's Writing. LONDON: Book Review [Details]
    2018 Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French.
    Rodgers, J (2018) Voicing Voluntary Childlessness: Narratives of Non-Mothering in French. LIVERPOOL: Book Review [Details]
    2014 Mindscapes of Montreal: Quebec's Urban Novel, 1960-2005.
    Rodgers, J (2014) Mindscapes of Montreal: Quebec's Urban Novel, 1960-2005. LIVERPOOL: Book Review [Details]
    2011 Between Languages and Cultures: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy.
    Rodgers, J (2011) Between Languages and Cultures: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy. LIVERPOOL: Book Review [Details]
    2009 Comparing Migration.
    Rodgers, J (2009) Comparing Migration. LIVERPOOL: Book Review [Details]

    Encyclopedia Entry

      Year Publication
    2011 Girls and Puberty.
    Julie Rodgers (2011) Girls and Puberty. Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
    2010 Maternal Abject (Kristeva).
    Julie Rodgers (2010) Maternal Abject (Kristeva). Encyclopedia Entry [DOI] [Details]
    2010 New French Feminisms.
    Julie Rodgers (2010) New French Feminisms. Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

    Honours and Awards

      Year Title Awarding Body
    2012 Faculty Enrichment Award Government of Canada
    2021 Beacon Fellowship ICUF
    2011 Teaching and Learning Small Project Award NDLR
    2013 Prix du Québec Quebec Delegation in London
    2019 Flaherty Scholarship ICUF

    Professional Associations

      Association Function From / To
    Women in French Member 01-JAN-12 /
    Association of Contemporary and Modern France Member 01-AUG-20 /
    ADEFFI Executive Member 01-JAN-12 / 01-JAN-18
    ACSI Executive Member 01-JAN-14 /

    Committees

      Committee Function From / To
    Franco-Irish Literary Festival Executive Member 2013 /

    Outreach Activities

      Description

    Invited to speak on the topic of motherhood with Dr Valerie Heffernan. Link

    Reviews

      Journal Role
    British Journal Of Canadian Studies Associate Editor

    Teaching Interests

    Contemporary Women's Writing; Narratives of Mothering; Quebec Literature, Culture and Cinema; Contemporary French Cinema; Feminism.

    Recent Postgraduates

      Graduation Student Name University Degree Thesis
    2018 Egle Kackute Maynooth University Postdoctoral Research Fellow Migrant Motherhood

    Internal Collaborators

      Name Institute Country
    Valerie Heffernan