Dean (Learning & Teaching)
Biography
Professor Julie Robert is Dean (Learning & Teaching) of the Arts, Education and Law (AEL) Group. She completed her undergraduate studies in History and French at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada prior to undertaking doctoral studies in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Julie has nearly two decades of teaching experience in French language, Francophone literature and cultural studies, and supervising undergraduate research in a study abroad setting. Before Griffith, she taught and held leadership positions in learning and teaching at the University of Technology Sydney.
Julie’s accomplishments in learning and teaching include an Australian Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for her work to strengthen the link between foreign language curriculum and pedagogy, study abroad and employability and Faculty Enrichment Grants from the Canadian government. She has led major curriculum renewal projects focused on multidisciplinary and dual degrees and initiated a range of L&T projects across undergraduate, postgraduate and micro-credential studies.
Julie is a scholar of French and French-Canadian literature and culture and the medical humanities. Her work investigates the social and cultural uses of private bodies for public ends, notably in philanthropic, public health and nation-building contexts. More recently she has been researching many facets of alcohol, drinking and abstinence cultures. She is the author of Curative Illnesses: Medico-National Allegory in Québécois Fiction (McGill-Queen’s 2016) and Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).