STAFF PROFILE
Dr Alexis Bergantz
Position:
Lecturer - French
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
Global, Urban and Social Studies
Phone:
+61 3 9925 8203
Email:
alexis.bergantz@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Alexis Bergantz is Lecturer in French Studies at RMIT University in the School of Global, Urban and Social Sciences.
Before joining RMIT, Alexis taught and designed courses in French Language & Culture and History at the University of Technology Sydney and the Australian National University, where he completed his doctorate in the School of History in 2016. Alexis's research interests broadly span transnational and imperial history, life writing, the Francophone world, and teaching pedagogy.
- Lecturer in French Studies
- Course Coordinator
- Associate Member, Centre for Global Research
- PhD (History), The Australian National University
- MA (History), The University of Sydney
- MA (International Studies), The University of Sydney
- BA (English and French studies), Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg II)
Professional interests:
- Australian Historical Association
- Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations
- European Asia-Pacific Network (Eurasiane)
- Australian Society for French Studies
- LCNAU
French history, Australian history, Cultural history, World history, Imperial history, French-Australian relations and history, French Pacific world, Biography, Cultural history, the Francophone world
- Bergantz, A. (2017). National history and migrant history after the transnational turn: the French in Australia and the articulation of Frenchness In: E-rea, 14, 1 - 11
- Bergantz, A. (2017). The culture and politics of Frenchness in Australia (1890-1914): reflections on a research project In: The French Australian Review, 62, 19 - 33
- Bergantz, A. (2015). A view of the country: a Franco-Australian family's representations of the French countryside (1878-1903) and the question of cultural belonging In: New Zealand Journal of French Studies, 36, 51 - 69
- Bergantz, A. (2014). "I am an Australian, we are freer than anyone in France": Two Australian Girls and their Diaries in France in the late Nineteenth Century In: French History and Civilization: Papers from the George Rude Seminar, 5, 143 - 152