Dr Julie Rodgers

French Studies, Motherhood Project, School of Modern Languages
Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor, Postgraduate Co-Ordinator
Biography
Research Interests
Research Projects
Project | Role | Funding Body / Program | Description | Start Date | End Date | Award (€) | |
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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 | |
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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] |
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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] |
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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. [DOI] [Details] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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2022 | ''Mais qui va garder les enfants?' Postfeminist Retraditionalism in La Vie d'une autre''
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] [Details] |
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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'
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 [Details] |
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2020 | 'Deviant Care: Chanson douce and the Killer Nanny'
Rodgers, J (2020) 'Deviant Care: Chanson douce and the Killer Nanny'. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 :381-395 [DOI] [Details] |
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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] [full-text] [Details] |
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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] |
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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] [full-text] [Details] |
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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] [full-text] [Details] |
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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] |
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2016 | 'French Canadian Literature'
Julie Rodgers (2016) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 76 :82-89 [Details] |
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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] |
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2013 | 'French Canadian Literature'
Julie Rodgers (2013) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 73 :77-81 [full-text] [Details] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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2012 | 'French Canadian Literature'
Julie Rodgers (2012) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 72 :170-174 [DOI] [Details] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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2010 | 'French Canadian Literature'
Julie Rodgers (2010) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 71 :215-221 [Details] |
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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] |
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2008 | 'French Canadian Literature'
Julie Rodgers (2008) 'French Canadian Literature'. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 70 :230-235 [Details] |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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2022 | Transgression(s) in twenty-first century women's writing in French edited by Kate Averis, Egle Kackute and Catherine Mao.
Julie Rodgers (2022) Transgression(s) in twenty-first century women's writing in French edited by Kate Averis, Egle Kackute and Catherine Mao. Book Review [DOI] [Details] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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2009 | Comparing Migration.
Rodgers, J (2009) Comparing Migration. LIVERPOOL: Book Review [Details] |
Encyclopedia Entry
Year | Publication | |
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2011 | Girls and Puberty.
Julie Rodgers (2011) Girls and Puberty. Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
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2010 | Maternal Abject (Kristeva).
Julie Rodgers (2010) Maternal Abject (Kristeva). Encyclopedia Entry [DOI] [Details] |
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2010 | New French Feminisms.
Julie Rodgers (2010) New French Feminisms. Encyclopedia Entry [Details] |
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2012 | Faculty Enrichment Award | Government of Canada | |
2022 | Prix de la délégation du Québec à Londres | British Association of Canadian Studies | |
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 | |
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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 | |
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Franco-Irish Literary Festival | Executive Member | 2013 / |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2022 | Open University | Embedding Mental Health in the Currculum | Education |
Languages
Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
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Italian | Functional | Basic | Basic | |
French | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
Outreach Activities
Description | |
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Invited to speak on the topic of motherhood with Dr Valerie Heffernan. Link |
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Consultation service for articles on Motherhood. |
Reviews
Journal | Role | |
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British Journal Of Canadian Studies | Associate Editor |
Other Activities
Description | |
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External Examiner in French for TU Blanchardstown. |
Teaching Interests
Recent Postgraduates
Graduation | Student Name | University | Degree | Thesis | |
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2018 | Egle Kackute | Maynooth University | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Migrant Motherhood |
Internal Collaborators
Name | Institute | Country | |
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Valerie Heffernan |