Beth Kearney

Beth Kearney is an early career scholar of contemporary literature. She is preparing a monograph on the use of photography in experimental memoir by women authors of the Francosphere. She is also researching contemporary literature (autobiography, fiction, and everything in between) that challenges national and cultural scripts of gender identity. She has published on these topics and others in several outlets, both public-facing (Asymptote, The Conversation, MAI Journal) and academic (L’Esprit créateur, Francosphères, The Australian Journal of French Studies, Modern & Contemporary France). She teaches French Studies at the University of Queensland.