Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Bonnie completed her PhD in French Studies and History at the University of Western Australia focusing on gender identity in contemporary French Caribbean literature. She currently teaches in the areas of French language and French and francophone literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bonnie also has extensive experience teaching English as a foreign language.
Roles and responsibilities
Deputy Head (Education Admin), School of Humanities
Associate Editor, "Essays in French Literature and Culture"
Editorial Advisory Board Member for "Archipelies", Université des Antilles-Guyane
Funding overview
UWA Multimedia Innovation Grant 2005
UWA Research Grant 2006
UWA Teaching Fellowship 2005, 2008, 2013
UWA Research Development Award 2009
UWA Improving Student Learning Grant 2012
UWA Teaching Relief Grant 2016
UWA Research Accelator Scheme Pilot Project 2019 (CI Ned Curthoys)
Previous positions
Macquarie University, Sydney (2003)
As part of my role at UWA:
Equity and diversity advisor (2008-2011)
Arts faculty CATLyst (Arts representative for the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning) (2009-2010)
Advisory Board Member, Tuart College (2010-2018)
Convenor of French Studies (2013-2018)
Current projects
I am currently working on a project focusing on Haitian writer and publisher Rodney Saint-Eloi.
Teaching overview
Courses taught
- Beginners French (FREN1401/1402)
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Intellectual Thought (FREN2001)
- Francophone Caribbean Literature (FREN3814)
- Theory and Practice of Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FREN4102)
Teaching awards
- Senior Fellowship, Higher Education Academy (2019)
- UWA Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education Excellence in Teaching Award (2018, 2020)
- Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2017)
- UWA Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award – High Commendation (2017)
- UWA Excellence in Teaching Award (2015, 2018)
- UWA Student Guild’s Student Choice Award (2014, 2016, 2017)
- UWA Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Awards (2004, 2009, 2014)
- Finalist, UWA Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Awards (2012, 2016)
- UWA nominee for national Excellence in Teaching Awards (2006, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2020)
- Additional UWA Excellence in Teaching Award nominations (2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)
- Nomination for UWA Faculty of Arts Excellence in Research Supervision (2015)
Research
Francophone Caribbean literature
History, memory and trauma studies
Twentieth-century French intellectual thought
Gender Studies
Teaching and learning
History, memory and trauma studies
Twentieth-century French intellectual thought
Gender Studies
Teaching and learning
Languages
English
French (near-native)
French (near-native)
Research expertise keywords
- Caribbean Literature
- French And Francophone Literature
- Memory And Trauma
- Gender Studies
- Education
- French Caribbean and francophone literature
- Gender issues and French feminism
- History and memory
- Teaching and learning
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Research Output
Un homme en quatre morceaux? Dany Laferrière, Identity and the Académie française
Thomas, B., May 2020, In : The French Review. 93, 4, p. 84-94 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Poetic Healing: Rodney Saint-Eloi's 'Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre'
Thomas, B., Dec 2019, In : The French Review. 93, 2, p. 31-40 1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French by Oana Panaïté, Reviewed by Bonnie Thomas
Thomas, B., 7 Jun 2019, In : New West Indian Guide (NWIG). 93, 1-2, p. 154-155Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Open Access
Culture, Cuisine, and Cannibalism: Maryse Condé's Mets et merveilles
Thomas, B. L., May 2018, In : The French Review. 91, 4, p. 71-82 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Rodney saint-Éloi: Writer and publisher of the “whole-world”
Thomas, B., 1 Nov 2018, In : Small Axe. 22, 3, p. 28-36 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Projects
- 3 Finished
Gisele Pineau: History for the Future
University of Western Australia
1/01/16 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Gisele Pineau: Remembrance and Reconciliation
Griffiths, G., Broomhall, S. & Thomas, B.
University of Western Australia
1/01/09 → 31/12/09
Project: Research
History, Memory and Resilience in Contemporary French Caribbean Writing by Women
1/01/06 → 31/12/06
Project: Research