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Charlotte G Mackay Author

Charlotte G. Mackay is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at Monash University in Australia. She completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at The University of Melbourne and Sorbonne Université/Paris-IV in 2021. Her research focuses on contemporary literature written by women writers of Sub-Saharan origin, with a particular focus on Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome. She has published peer reviewed articles and book chapters on both writers and her scholarship is committed to questioning dominant narratives of people, place and power.