Dr Kate Averis

Profile

Kate Averis is Lecturer in European Languages at the University of Western Australia. Her research lies in the field of contemporary European and American literatures in Spanish and French with a focus on women’s writing, translingual texts, transculturalism, translation, gender, feminism, and ageing. Her publications include Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women’s Writing (Oxford: Legenda, 2014), Nancy Huston, guest-edited for Nottingham French Studies, 57.3 (2018), Women’s Ageing in Contemporary Women’s Writing, guest-edited with Maria-José Blanco for the Journal of Romance Studies, 17.3 (2017), Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing in French, co-edited with Eglė Kačkutė and Catherine Mao (Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2021), and Contested Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe, co-edited with Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex (Oxford: Legenda, 2023). She has published numerous articles on the works of Silvia Baron Supervielle, Cristina Bendek, Noëlle Châtelet, Annie Ernaux, Abla Farhoud, Nancy Huston, Linda Lê, Douna Loup, Sylvia Molloy and Laura Restrepo, and is currently preparing a comparative study of recent women’s writing of female ageing in Spanish, French and English and developing a project on translingual women’s writing in the Americas.