Dr Joe Hardwick’s research interests include: French cinema; French “existentialist” literature; narrative theory; queer theory; and cultural studies.
His current research projects include:
He also teaches courses in French language, cinema, literature and cultural studies
Journal Article: Undressed to kill: knowing, reading and connecting in Alain Guiraudie’s homme fatal thriller L’Inconnu du lac (2013)
Hardwick, Joe (2022). Undressed to kill: knowing, reading and connecting in Alain Guiraudie’s homme fatal thriller L’Inconnu du lac (2013). French Screen Studies, 23 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/26438941.2022.2035506
Journal Article: Reframing the periphery: narrative authority and self-reflexivity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine
Hardwick, Joe (2015). Reframing the periphery: narrative authority and self-reflexivity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine. Australian Journal of French Studies, 52 (2), 127-138. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2015.11
Journal Article: Transports prives: Claire Denis's Vendredi soir and the mobile urban woman in French cinema
Hardwick, Joe (2010). Transports prives: Claire Denis's Vendredi soir and the mobile urban woman in French cinema. French Cultural Studies, 21 (3), 192-201. doi: 10.1177/0957155810370384
Journal Article: Wander lust: genre, sexuality and identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On
Hardwick, Joseph B. (2009). Wander lust: genre, sexuality and identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On. Cultural Studies Review, 15 (1), 33-42. doi: 10.5130/csr.v15i1.2052
Journal Article: The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The critical construction of le jeune cinéma français
Hardwick, Joe (2008). The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The critical construction of le jeune cinéma français. Modern and Contemporary France, 16 (1), 51-65. doi: 10.1080/09639480701802666
Genre, Generation and Subjectivity in French and Australian "youth" Cinema
(2004) UQ Early Career Researcher
(2000–2002) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Raul Ruiz's Filmmaking: An Alternative to the Central Conflict Theory
(2021) Doctor Philosophy
The Fictional Construction of Iran for a Western Readership: from Montesquieu to Nafisi
(2016) Doctor Philosophy
ANIMA/ANIMUS: DEPARDIEU AND THE PROJECTION OF MASCULINITIES
(2007) Doctor Philosophy
Hardwick, Joe (2022). Undressed to kill: knowing, reading and connecting in Alain Guiraudie’s homme fatal thriller L’Inconnu du lac (2013). French Screen Studies, 23 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/26438941.2022.2035506
Reframing the periphery: narrative authority and self-reflexivity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine
Hardwick, Joe (2015). Reframing the periphery: narrative authority and self-reflexivity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine. Australian Journal of French Studies, 52 (2), 127-138. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2015.11
Transports prives: Claire Denis's Vendredi soir and the mobile urban woman in French cinema
Hardwick, Joe (2010). Transports prives: Claire Denis's Vendredi soir and the mobile urban woman in French cinema. French Cultural Studies, 21 (3), 192-201. doi: 10.1177/0957155810370384
Wander lust: genre, sexuality and identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On
Hardwick, Joseph B. (2009). Wander lust: genre, sexuality and identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On. Cultural Studies Review, 15 (1), 33-42. doi: 10.5130/csr.v15i1.2052
The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The critical construction of le jeune cinéma français
Hardwick, Joe (2008). The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The critical construction of le jeune cinéma français. Modern and Contemporary France, 16 (1), 51-65. doi: 10.1080/09639480701802666
Soi-disant: Life Writing in French
De Nooy, Juliana, Hardwick, Joseph B. and Hanna, Barbara E. eds. (2005). Soi-disant: Life Writing in French. 1st American ed. Monash Romance Series, Newark DE: University of Delaware Press.
Hardwick, Joe (2020). House of mirrors: narrative seduction and the power of fiction in François Ozon's Dans la maison (2012). Still loitering: Australian essays in honour of Ross Chambers. (pp. 99-120) edited by Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang.
Hardwick, Joe (2020). House of mirrors: narrative seduction and the power of fiction in François Ozon's Dans la Maison (2012). Still loitering: Australian essays in honour of Ross Chambers. (pp. 99-122) edited by Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls. Oxford, United Kingdown: Peter Lang.
Hardwick, Joe (2016). Regards troublants. Texte, intertexte et cadrages generiques dans Nettoyage a sec d'Anne Fontaine (1997). Genre, Text and Language: Melanges Anne Freadman. (pp. 299-316) edited by Véronique Duché, Tess Do and Andrea Rizzi. Paris, France: Classiques Garnier.
So over the rainbow? The singular plurality of Martineau and Ducastel's Drole de Felix
Hardwick, Joe (2011). So over the rainbow? The singular plurality of Martineau and Ducastel's Drole de Felix. Hexagonal variations: Diversity, plurality and reinvention in contemporary France. (pp. 101-117) edited by Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls. New York, United States: Rodopi.
Writing the self in French: (P)actes autobiographiqes
Hardwick, Joseph B., De Nooy, Juliana and Hanna, Barbara E. (2005). Writing the self in French: (P)actes autobiographiqes. Soi-disant: Life Writing in French. (pp. 1-11) edited by J. De Nooy, J. Hardwick and B. E. Hanna. Newark DE: University of Delaware Press.
Be my guest: Invitation to a re-reading of Simone de Beauvoir's L'invitee
Hardwick, J. B. (1999). Be my guest: Invitation to a re-reading of Simone de Beauvoir's L'invitee. Variete: Perspectives in French Literature, Society and Culture: Studies in honour of Kenneth Raymond Dutton, Emeritus Professor, The University of Newcastle, Australia. (pp. 249-260) edited by Marie Ramsland and Kenneth R. Dutton. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang.
Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette histoire! a narratological study of Sartre's La Nausée
Hardwick, Joseph (1992). Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette histoire! a narratological study of Sartre's La Nausée. In the Place of French: Essays on and Around French Studies in Honour of Michael Spencer. (pp. 83-98) edited by Peter Cryle, Anne Freadman and Jean-Claude Lacherez. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Hubbell, Amy, Hardwick, Joe, Barnett, Jenny Davis and Hanna, Barbara E. (2023). Un.siting French Studies. Australian Journal of French Studies, 60 (2), 113-121. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2023.11
Gemma King, Jacques Audiard, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021
Hardwick, Joe (2022). Gemma King, Jacques Audiard, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59 (4), 447-449. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2022.33
Hardwick, Joe (2022). Undressed to kill: knowing, reading and connecting in Alain Guiraudie’s homme fatal thriller L’Inconnu du lac (2013). French Screen Studies, 23 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/26438941.2022.2035506
Dealing with difference: The transition to university french
Hanna, Barbara, Hardwick, Joe and Cowley, Peter (2020). Dealing with difference: The transition to university french. Babel, 55 ( 1 & 2), 22-29.
Hardwick, Joe (2019). Double binds and double movements: masculinity, mobility and fraternal rivalry in Pascal Alex Vincent's Donne-moi la main (2008). French Cultural Studies, 30 (1), 44-52. doi: 10.1177/0957155818810662
Hardwick, Joe (2018). Review of Felicity Chaplin, La Parisienne in Cinema: Between Art and Life, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Australian Journal of French Studies, 55 (3), 330-331. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2018.28
Hardwick, Joe (2017). The transnational and the transformative: Haim Tabakman's Tu n'aimeras point and the shifting profile of French cinema in the Twenty-first Century. Australian Journal of French Studies, 54 (1), 84-95. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2017.07
Hardwick, Joe and Hubbell, Amy (2016). Tyrannies of Distance, Perils of Proximity: Time, Space and Virtuality in the French and Francophone World. Australian Journal of French Studies, 53 (1-2), 3-18. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2016.01
Reframing the periphery: narrative authority and self-reflexivity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine
Hardwick, Joe (2015). Reframing the periphery: narrative authority and self-reflexivity in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine. Australian Journal of French Studies, 52 (2), 127-138. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2015.11
Le je(u) de l'actrice : role-play and rebirth in Roch Stephanik's Stand-by (2000)
Hardwick, Joe (2013). Le je(u) de l'actrice : role-play and rebirth in Roch Stephanik's Stand-by (2000). Essays in French Literature and Culture, 50, 35-50.
Pratt, Murray, Stephens, Elizabeth, Rolls, Alistair, Hardwick, Joe and Hainge, Greg (2011). Larry Schehr. Australian Journal of French Studies, 48 (3), 348-352. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.48.3.348
Transports prives: Claire Denis's Vendredi soir and the mobile urban woman in French cinema
Hardwick, Joe (2010). Transports prives: Claire Denis's Vendredi soir and the mobile urban woman in French cinema. French Cultural Studies, 21 (3), 192-201. doi: 10.1177/0957155810370384
Wander lust: genre, sexuality and identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On
Hardwick, Joseph B. (2009). Wander lust: genre, sexuality and identity in Ana Kokkinos's Head On. Cultural Studies Review, 15 (1), 33-42. doi: 10.5130/csr.v15i1.2052
(Rétro) projections: French cinema in the twenty-first century. The bodily and the political
Hardwick, Joe (2008). (Rétro) projections: French cinema in the twenty-first century. The bodily and the political. Australian Journal of French Studies, 45 (3), 185-196. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.45.3.185
The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The critical construction of le jeune cinéma français
Hardwick, Joe (2008). The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The critical construction of le jeune cinéma français. Modern and Contemporary France, 16 (1), 51-65. doi: 10.1080/09639480701802666
Hardwick, Joe (2007). Fallen angels and flawed saviours: marginality and exclusion in La Vie de Jésus and La Vie rêvée des anges. Studies in French Cinema, 7 (3), 219-230. doi: 10.1386/sfc.7.3.219_1
Hardwick, Joe (2005). Rules of engagement: Cross-cultural glances in critical writing on recent French and Australian 'youth' films. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19 (1), 73-84. doi: 10.1080/1030431052000336306
Soi-disant: Writing, screening, theorizing the self in French (vol 41, p g 1, 2004)
De Nooy, J., Hardwick, J. and Hanna, B. E. (2005). Soi-disant: Writing, screening, theorizing the self in French (vol 41, p g 1, 2004). Australian Journal of French Studies, 42 (1), 5-5.
Bodies that loiter: Genre, generation and subjectivity in Les 'Corps Ouverts'
Hardwick, J (2004). Bodies that loiter: Genre, generation and subjectivity in Les 'Corps Ouverts'. Australian Journal of French Studies, 41 (3), 75-87. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.41.3.75
Soi-disant: Writing, screening, theorizing the self in French
de Nooy, J., Hardwick, J. and Hanna, Barbara E. (2004). Soi-disant: Writing, screening, theorizing the self in French. Australian Journal of French Studies, 41 (3), 1-9. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.41.3.1
Speaking ill: The language of sickness in Albert Camus' The Plague
Hardwick, J. B. (2001). Speaking ill: The language of sickness in Albert Camus' The Plague. Inter-Cultural Studies: A Forum on Social Change & Cultural Diversity, 1 (2), 40-48.
Keeping it together and falling apart in Simone de Beauvoir's La Femme rompue
Hardwick, J. B. (1999). Keeping it together and falling apart in Simone de Beauvoir's La Femme rompue. Essays in French Literature, 35-36, 165-177.
Romans et theses : french "existentialist" fiction, literary history and literary modernism
Hardwick, Joseph Brian. (2002). Romans et theses : french "existentialist" fiction, literary history and literary modernism. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland.
Genre, Generation and Subjectivity in French and Australian "youth" Cinema
(2004) UQ Early Career Researcher
(2000–2002) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
Raul Ruiz's Filmmaking: An Alternative to the Central Conflict Theory
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The Fictional Construction of Iran for a Western Readership: from Montesquieu to Nafisi
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
ANIMA/ANIMUS: DEPARDIEU AND THE PROJECTION OF MASCULINITIES
(2007) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
STRATEGIES OF CULTURAL TRANSFER IN SUBTITLING AND DUBBING
(2007) Doctor Philosophy — Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2019) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Solutions to the problems of western civilisation in the novels of Michel Houellebecq
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Gender and the family in contemporary Chinese-language film remakes
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Casanova's Celebrity: a Case Study of Well-knownness in 18th-century Europe
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Interculturality and "Les arbres en parlent encore" by Calixthe Beyala
(2014) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
A textual analysis of female consciousness in twenty-first century Chinese women directors' films
(2011) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2008) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors: