Essays in French Literature and Culture

The journal was established in 1964 by James R. Lawler.[3] In 1975, the journal's editorship passed on to Denis Boak who, in a commemorative issue celebrating the journal's fiftieth anniversary, argues that Essays in French Literature was a "free-standing intellectual endeavour" providing "an extra outlet for young scholars to publish".[4] He was succeeded by Andrew Hunwick in 1995. Hélène Jaccomard took over in 2007.
A growing interest in cultural studies in the field of French studies led to a widening of the scope of the journal and its renaming in 2008. The new title reflects this wider emphasis on culture.
In the context of the crisis in academic publishing,[5] and as one of only two French Studies academic journals in Australia, Essays in French Literature and Culture has shown a remarkable ability to survive thanks to the quality of the articles it stringently selects, and its widening readership which is its only financial means of support.
The journal's importance is acknowledged by the Australian Society of French Studies[6] and Informit database.[7]

• Prof. Hélène Jaccomard, Managing Editor
  
• Associate Professor Bonnie Thomas, Associate Editor
  
• Dr Rosemary Lancaster, The University of Western Australia
  
• Prof. Peter Morgan, The University of Sydney
  
• Prof. Srilata Ravi, University of Alberta
  
• Dr Jean-Marie Volet, The University of Western Australia.

In the first forty years of its existence, the journal published essays spontaneously submitted to the Editors. Since 2007 many issues have been thematic and guest edited by experts in the field. All the contributions go through a thorough double-blind evaluation by independent assessors. Themes recently covered by the journal:

- issue nr 45: Foreign? Writing in French (2008)
- issue nr 46 : Sports (2009)
- issue nr 47 and 48: Landscape and Memory (2010 and 2011)
- issue nr 49: The Paratext (2012)
- issue nr 50: Playtime (2013)
- issue nr 51: Représenter la Grande Guerre: les écrivains et les artistes face à l’épreuve (1914-1920) (2014)
- issue nr 52: Diaspora, Afropolitanism and Congolese Literature (2015)
- issue nr 53: Conflict, dialogue and representation (2016)
- issue nr 54: Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds (France 1939-1945) (2017)
- issue nr 55 : Miscellaneous (2018).
- issue nr 56 : “Mines de rien”. L’Antillaise et l’Afropéenne face aux tropologies, entre mythes et réalités au fil du temps (2019)

Thème: Identité et Environnement

Hélène Jaccomard, Introduction
Nadine Gassie, Les enjeux des repérages situationnels dans la traduction : le cas de Tim Winton et de David Malouf
Jean Anderson et Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Enjeux et défis de la traduction de l’environnement dans des œuvres littéraires australiennes et néo-zélandaises
Adina Balint, Croisements de l’identitaire, du nomadisme et de l’environnement dans la littérature francophone contemporaine du Canada
Kate Averis, Environmental Degradation and Fractured Identities in Nancy Huston’s Canadian Ecotexts Françoise Grauby, Corambé, Nohant, Sand : une écologie de la création
Raji Vallury, Space, Landscape, and the Aesthetic Sensorium in Germinie Lacerteux
Clément Extier, La “terre éventrée” des “provinces dévorées par les horreurs du feu” : anéantissement et reconstruction de l’environnement dans Interrogation de Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Hélène Jaccomard, Sémiologie du bric-à-brac : les objets, marqueurs d’identité, dans l’œuvre de Yasmina Reza
Gillian Dooley, Jane Austen and the Music of the French Revolution

• numéro 58 (2021) French Critical Medical Humanities, Guest editors: Professor Enda McCaffrey, Nottingham Trent University, and Dr Aine Larkin, Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen (closed)
• numéro 59 (2022) Retranslation revisited/La Retraduction revisitée (open)

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index,[8] and EBSCO and ProQuest databases.

• Official website and where the journal can be purchased