BA (Hons)/B Litt (Melb), Dip Ed (La Trobe),RSA/Camb CTEFLA, Lic. ès L., Maîtrise ès L., DEA (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies)/MA (Sorbonne)

Associate Lecturer

Career Summary

Adam Russell is currently enrolled at the Sorbonne as a doctoral student in French and Comparative literature, completing a French-Australian PhD (in cotutelle) through the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne and the University of Melbourne.

Adam has been a student at the Sorbonne since 1999, when he first enrolled in a French literature major in the BA degree (Licence ès lettres modernes). After completing his honours degree there (Maîtrise ès lettres modernes), Adam began research for his MA in French and Comparative literature (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) on the topic of the narrative techniques of Gustave Flaubert and Jane Austen. Adam is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship.

The title of his doctoral thesis (‘The reception of Jane Austen in France in the early nineteenth-century’) is indicative of the interdisciplinary nature of his research. His dissertation research uses the subject of the first French translations of Jane Austen’s novels to test the applicability of the conceptual framework of narratology within the field of Translation Studies. The cross-disciplinary approach of his research encompasses the history of publication, Jane Austen studies, history and stylistics of the novel, translation studies, narratology, as well as archival research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France using little known primary sources. Adam is currently preparing to publish on the narrator in La Famille Elliot, the first French translation of Austen’s Persuasion.

Adam is a founding member of Société Baudelaire with his Parisian supervisor Professor Pierre Brunel (Paris IV-Sorbonne).

Adam has extensive experience as a language tutor in France’s extremely demanding post-baccalauréat preparatory classes (CPGE) at both Henri IV and Louis-le-Grand.