Dr Susan Foley
Senior Research Fellow
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 5976
- Email:
- skfoley@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 326 Bridge
History, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
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Biography
Susan Foley completed a PhD at Murdoch University in 1987. After a brief period at the University of Western Australia, she spent nineteen years at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she taught European history. She returned to Australia in mid-2006.
Research
A specialist in French history, Susan’s research interests lie in cultural and political history, and in gender and women’s history, since the 18th century. Her current projects include a study of the correspondence of Republican leader, Léon Gambetta, and his lover, Léonie Léon; and research into the ‘gendering’ of political identities within Republican families. With Professor Charles Sowerwine, she is also engaged on an ARC-funded project on the evolution of female identity in the nineteenth century.
Publications
Books
- Foley, Susan, Women in France since 1789: The Meanings of Difference, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004
- Grogan, Susan, ed. French History in the Antipodes: Proceedings of the Twelfth George Rudé Seminar on French History, Wellington: Waiteata Press, 2001
Articles and Chapters
- Foley, Susan, (with Charles Sowerwine) ‘“Je ne peux détacher mes yeux ni mon cœur de cette lettre divine:” La Correspondance Amoureuse et Politique de Léonie Léon et Léon Gambetta, 1872-1882.’ In Mireille Bossis (ed.), Archive Epistolaire et Histoire : Actes du Colloque de Cérisy-la-Salle, août 2006, Paris : Editions Connaissances et Savoirs, forthcoming, October 2007
- Foley, Susan. ‘“Your letter is divine, irresistible, infernally seductive”: Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon, and Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Culture,’ French Historical Studies, 30, 2 (2007): 237-67
- Foley, Susan. “‘J’avais tant besoin d’être aimée … par correspondance’: les discours de l’amour dans la correspondance de Léonie Léon et Léon Gambetta, 1872-1882.” CLIO, Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés, 24 (2006): 151-70
- Foley, Susan. ‘“I felt such a need to be loved…in a letter”: reading the correspondence of Léonie Léon and Léon Gambetta,’ French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar, vol. 1. Melbourne: The George Rudé Society, 2005: 256-66. Also available at www.h-france.net/rude/rudeTOC2005.html
- Foley, Susan. ‘In Search of “Liberty”: Politics and Personal Identity in the Travel Narratives of Flora Tristan and Suzanne Voilquin’, Women’s History Review. 13, 2 (2004): 211-31
- Foley, Susan. ‘Masculinism and the Female Muse: Gender and Politics amongst the Republican Elite c. 1860-1880’, in Greg Burgess (ed.), Revolution, Nation and Memory: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar in French History, Hobart, July 2002. Hobart: University of Tasmania Press, 2004, pp. 180-94
- Grogan, Susan. ‘“Playing the Princess”: Flora Tristan, Performance and Female Moral Authority in July Monarchy France’, in Jo B. Margadant (ed.), The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. pp. 72-98
- Grogan, Susan. 2000. ‘Women, Philanthropy and the State: The Société de Charité Maternelle in Avignon, 1802-1917’, French History. 14, 3 (2000): 295-321
Other publications
- Foley, Susan. ‘Flora Tristan’, in Bonnie G. Smith (ed. in chief), Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, October 2007
- Foley, Susan. ‘Flora Tristan,’ ‘Pauline Roland,’ ‘Louise Michel,’ and with Charles Sowerwine ‘Léon Gambetta,’ in John Merriman and Jay Winter (general eds), Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914. Macmillan Reference USA, 2006