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Cinema, French, Multilingualism, Museums, Francophone, Film, Sign Language, Multiculturalism, Transnationalism
Australia

Biography

Dr Gemma King is ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in French at the Australian National University. Her research investigates language, power and cultural representation on screen and in museums. Her first book Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema was published with Manchester University Press in 2017 and her second book, Jacques Audiard, appeared in MUP's French Film Directors series in 2021. From 2023-2026, she is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow with the project Sign on Screen, about the portrayal of sign languages in film and television.

Activities

Employment (7)

The Australian National University: N/A, AU

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The Australian National University

Australian National University: Canberra, ACT, AU

2020-01 to present | Senior Lecturer in French (Literature, Languages and Linguistics)
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Australian National University: Canberra, ACT, AU

2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30 | DECRA Fellow (School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics)
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Australian National University: Canberra, ACT, AU

2016-07 to 2019-12 | Lecturer in French (Literature, Languages and Linguistics)
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2012-02 to 2016-06 | Tutor, Guest Lecturer, Research Assistant, Social Media Manager (French)
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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2013-09 to 2014-01 | Lectrice (Langues Etrangères Appliquées)
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Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne: Creteil, Île-de-France, FR

2012-10 to 2013-01 | Vacataire (Anglais)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Deaf Connect: Canberra, ACT, AU

2022-01 to 2023-06 | Certificate IV in Auslan (Auslan)
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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2012-02-13 to 2015-02-13 | PhD (cotutelle) (Cinema)
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2012-02-01 to 2015-02-01 | PhD (cotutelle) (French)
Education
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2006-02-27 to 2009-11-13 | BA (Hons) (French)
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Professional activities (7)

Australian Society for French Studies: Canberra, ACT, AU

2021-12 to present | President
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Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum Collective: Houston, TX, US

2021-04 to present | Steering Committee Member
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Australian National University: Canberra, ACT, AU

2023-12 | Programs that Enhance Student Learning (Vice Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Education)
Distinction
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Australian Awards for University Teaching: Melbourne, AU

2021-02 | Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
Distinction
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Université PSL: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2020 to 2020 | Research Fellow (International Relations)
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Higher Education Academy: York, North Yorkshire, GB

2019 | Senior Fellow
Distinction
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Australian National University: Canberra, ACT, AU

2018 | Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence
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Funding (2)

DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award)

2023 to 2026 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
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Gemma King

Humanities Research Centre RSHA Internal Fellowship

2021-07 to 2021-12 | Grant
Humanities Research Centre (Canberra, AU)
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Works (30)

Screening race, streaming Frenchness: Women of colour on French Netflix

French Screen Studies
2024-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Loïc Bourdeau; Gemma King
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'Between Montreal and Los Angeles: Centrifugal and centripetal forces in the transnational cinemas of Jean-Marc Vallée and Denis Villeneuve’

Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National
2024-03 | Book chapter
Contributors: Gemma King
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Gemma King

Diplomacy and resistance: How Dune shows us the power of language – including sign language

2024-03-05 | Journal article | Author
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The Australian National University

Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From La Famille Bélier and Marie Heurtin to La Révolution

Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France
2024-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783031391941
Part of ISBN: 9783031391958
Part of ISSN: 2634-615X
Part of ISSN: 2634-6168
Contributors: Gemma King
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'Sign language and cinéma-monde in Marie Heurtin: On Deaf cinema and troubling the notion of French national language'

Journal of Romance Studies
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Gemma King
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Gemma King
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Cinéma-monde, Jacques Audiard’s Les Frères Sisters and the limits of national cinemas

French Screen Studies
2023 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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Transnational French cinema and the multilingual film

Transnational French Studies
2023-10-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781789622713
Part of ISBN: 9781789622560
Contributors: Gemma King
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Gemma King

"The boundary has been moved”: Hollywood cinéma-monde, film borders and the multilingual assassin in Sicario and Inglourious Basterds

Contemporary French Civilization
2022-04-21 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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Alexis Bergantz, French Connection

2021 | Book review | Author
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Contributors: Gemma King
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The Australian National University

Multilingual Pilgrimages

Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s)
2021 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781789622720
Part of ISBN: 9781789628111
Contributors: Gemma King
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The Australian National University

Jacques Audiard

Manchester University Press
2021-06-08 | Book
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Gemma King
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Achille, Etienne, Forsdick, Charles and Lydie Moudileno. Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France. Liverpool University Press, 2020

Contemporary French Civilization
2021-04 | Book review
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Gemma King
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French Studies: Film Studies

2020 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Felicity Chaplin; Gemma King
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The Australian National University

The Door of the Journey of No Return: A Cinema of (Up)rooting and Decentring in Rachid Bouchareb’s Little Senegal

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
2020 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781474466516
Contributors: Gemma King
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The Australian National University

Le métro-maison et l’art de la transmédiation dans L’Ecume des jours : de Vian à Gondry

Boris Vian, adaptateur adapté
2020-03 | Book chapter
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Gemma King

Denis Villeneuve's multilingual cinema: Decentring space, time and language in Arrival

Multilingualism in Film
2019 | Book chapter | Author
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The Australian National University

Translingualism and race passing in Samba

Esprit Createur
2019 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Gemma King
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The Australian National University

Introduction: Truth and representation in French and francophone studies

Australian Journal of French Studies
2019-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0004-9468
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Gemma King
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Multiculturalism obscured: Paris museum cultures and the Musée de l’Institut du monde arabe

Australian Journal of French Studies
2019-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0004-9468
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Gemma King
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Merry Christmas in No Man’s Land: European borders, language barriers and front lines in Christian Carion’s Joyeux Noël

Cinema-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French
2018 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781474414982
Contributors: Gemma King
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The Australian National University

In Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, language is power

2018-09-10 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Gemma King
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The Australian National University

No laughing matter? Navigating political (in)correctness in Intouchables

Francosphères
2018-06-13 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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Introduction: Migration across media in the francophone world

French Cultural Studies
2018-01 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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Contemporary French cinema and the langue de passage: from Dheepan to Welcome

French Cultural Studies
2018-01-12 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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Decentring France: Multilingualism and power in contemporary French cinema

Manchester University Press
2017-09 | Book
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Gemma King
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'En français, s’il te plaît': The linguistic battlegrounds of Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet)

Contemporary French Civilization
2017-01 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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Langues désancrées: le rôle du français dans London River (Rachid Bouchareb)

Genre, Text and Language, Classiques Garnier Paris
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISSN: 2103-5636
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Gemma King

Decentring France: Multilingualism and the French language in Philippe Lioret’s Welcome

De la genèse de la langue à Internet: Variations dans les formes, les modalités et les langues en contact
2015 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3034317986
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Gemma King

Code-switching as power strategy: Multilingualism and the role of Arabic in Maïwenn’s Polisse

Australian Journal of French Studies
2015-05 | Journal article
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Gemma King
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The power of the treacherous interpreter: Multilingualism in Jacques Audiard's Un prophète

Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series: Themes in Translation Studies
2014 | Journal article | Author
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The Australian National University