Peer-reviewed articles
French, C. (2022) Languaging a widened embodied repertoire, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 13(1): 57-74, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2021.2006297, read here.
French, C and Troy, J. (2021) Ngapartji Ngapartji: Intercultural dramaturgies for Indigenous language revitalisation, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2: 25-45: https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20220913073892, read here.
French, C. (2021). Facilitating departures from monolingual discourses, Applied Theatre Research, 9(1): 7-23, doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/atr_00045_1, read here.
Online publications
Roche, G. and French, C. (2022). Global Coalition of Language Rights, Language on the Move, Sydney: Macquarie University, read here.
French, C. (2022). ‘Theatre of the real’: how artists at Perth Fringe World are stripping down to reveal their vulnerabilities, The Conversation, read here.
French, C. (2022). Playing a part beyond allyship with Black Brass, ArtsHub, read here.
Jacobs, R. and French, C. (2021). Women, robots and a sustainable generation: Reading artworks envisioning education in 2050 and beyond, UNESCO Futures of Education, read here.
French, C. (2020). Performing the languages we live, Creative Multilingualism, Oxford: University of Oxford, read here.
Book reviews
French, C. (2018). Review, Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance. By Patrick J. Ebewo, Theatre Research International, read here.
French, C. (2016). Review, The Methuen drama guide to contemporary South African theatre, South African Theatre Journal, read here.
Practice as research
Arts Research Africa and Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2021 to 2022. Research title: ‘Decolonising language ideologies in the body’, creating ‘Breathing through the feet’, overview in blog post here and presentations on the data here and here.
AHRC/ University of Oxford research project Creative Multilingualism and Slanguages, ‘The body, making and (s)languaging’ A workshop for performers and practitioners exploring how and when the performer’s body might disrupt otherwise dominant uses of language, Friday 13 March 2020, Birmingham Rep, overview in my blog post here and evaluation here.
Invited talks
University of Warwick, Education Studies, International Drama in Education Institute (IDIERI) 10, ‘Sustainable multilingual interactions in English-only institutions,’ July 2022, watch here.
University of the Witwatersrand, School of Arts, ‘Decolonising facilitator training,’ co-presented with Sibusiso Mkhize, July 2021, watch here.
Western Sydney University, Centre for Educational Research, ‘Women, robots and a sustainable generation’ co-presented with Rachael Jacobs, May 2021, watch here.
University of Sydney, CREATE Higher Degree Research Huddle, ‘The research, policy, practice continuum: Reading artworks for UNESCO’s Future of Education,’ co-presented with Rachael Jacobs, April 2021.
University of Warwick, Institute of Advanced Studies Seminar Series, ‘Disrupting language ideologies in the collaborating actor’s body’, January 2020.
University of Warwick, Language. Culture. Matters. Applied Linguistics Seminar Series, ‘Performance-making processes as sites for the analysis of language ideologies’, December 2019.
Peer-reviewed presentations
10th International Drama in Education Institute (IDIERI), ‘Catalysts for multilingualism: Critical and sustainable multilingual performance practices’ panel with Kasia Lech and Rachael Jacobs, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, July 2022, watch here.
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Conference, ‘Disinhibiting the body to mobilise multilingualism’, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, November 2021.
AusAct: Australian Actor Training Conference, ‘Decolonising language ideologies in the body: Viewpoints as a multilingual pedagogy’, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, December 2020.
Performing Multilingualism in Europe and Beyond: Migration, Globalisation, Utopia, ‘Methodologies for mobilising languaging in performance-making and rehearsal processes’, University of Kent, September 2019.
9th International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI), ‘Towards translingual praxis: departures from monolingual facilitation’, University of Auckland, New Zealand, July 2018.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, ‘Considering actors’ embodied participation in improvisational activities’, Interdisciplinary Strand, University of Auckland, June 2018, more and abstract.
Theatre and Performance Seminar Series, ‘Facilitating translingual methodologies: beyond the monolingual orientation in applied performance praxis’, University of Warwick, January 2018.
PaR Lab: Pecha Kucha, ‘Performance devising processes as new discursive frames for sociolinguistic research’, University of Warwick, December 2017.
Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), ‘Introducing language ideology’, Applied and Social Theatre, University of Salford, September 2017.
Awards
Institute of Advanced Studies, IAS Award, University of Warwick, ’International Drama in Education Research Institute Local Section: Harnessing Global South-North Exchanges’ with Dr Rachel Turner-King (CI), January – July 2022, more
Institute of Advanced Studies, Research Fund, University of Warwick, July 2020
Research Excellent Framework (REF) PhD Completion Fund, Warwick Graduate School, University of Warwick, April-September 2019
Conference Bursary, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, 2018
TaPRA Bursury, Postdoctoral Researcher, September 2017
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Shared scholarship for doctoral research with The University of Warwick, 2015-2019
Monash Warwick Alliance Joint PhD, acceptance, however declined due to incompatibility with Commonwealth Scholarship (above), 2015
Esmée Fairbairn, England 2016
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, 2015 & 2016
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, highest grade MA dissertation for Applied Theatre, through publication: The British Library archive, 2014
Leverhulme Trust, Research Project Fund, February-June 2014
Propel Arts Youth Arts WA, Y Culture Grant, 2007
Australia Business Arts Foundation, Arts-Business Match Grant, 2007
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Bachelor of Arts Regional Scholarship, 2004-2005