Laura Singeot

Laura Singeot defended her PhD dissertation under the supervision of Professor Françoise Kral (Université Paris Nanterre, CREA) and teaches English at university. She wrote her dissertation on the representations of indigeneity from the first accounts of explorers to contemporary literatures from Australia and New-Zealand, focusing on Mudrooroo’s tetralogy Master of the Ghost Dreaming, and Alan Duff’s trilogy, Once Were Warriors. Her PhD thesis ends on the appearance of new representations and on the study of museology and visual arts, showing how today’s curatorial and artistic practices have redefined the whole relation to indigeneity in the global sphere and even led to a redefinition of culture. She has also published articles on indigenous literatures, James Cook and his first encounters with native populations from the Pacific, museology and Indigenous contemporary art.