Alexandra KURMANN

Alexandra Kurmann is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. She was awarded her doctoral thesis by the University of Melbourne in 2014. As well as her monograph and a 2010 interview with Linda Lê available online, she has published on Lê’s work in: Experience and Experiment: Women’s Writing in France 2000-2010; New perspectives of the Vietnam War; Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge;  Skepsi, Genre, Text and Language, Essays in French Literature and Culture and has a study of Vietnamese-Australian, -Canadian and -French literature forthcoming in Comparative Literature.  Her fields of research are Vietnamese literature of the diaspora in French and English, German exile writing, and Ingeborg Bachmann Studies.

Her works :

Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê. Imagining the Ideal Reader. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.