ALEXIS BERGANTZ
Biographic Data
| ID | 5705472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ALEXIS BERGANTZ |
| GIVEN NAMES | ALEXIS |
| FAMILY NAME | BERGANTZ |
| SIGNATURE | BERGANTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3739-7342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lady Anne Kerr
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) in 1966. She resigned from the profession and divorced her first husband in…
Of sausages and positronic brains
The Many Lives of the Count de Nérac
This article examines a short-lived and small iteration of sensationalist fiction published in latenineteenth century Australia that centred on New Caledonia and portrayed French characters and French convicts as villains. While rooted in the British genre of war literature and the Australian invasion “ripping yarn”, the corpus under study is unique in that it creates a new type of arch villain in the figure of the escaped convict-cum-French gent…
Australia and New Caledonia
Revisiting Australia’s cultural history
How to review a classic? John Rickard’s Australia: A Cultural History was published 30 years ago in 1988. Now in its third edition, it remains one of the best general national histories of Australi
The Scum of France’
Between the 1860s and the early decades of the twentieth century, escaped and liberated French convicts from the penal colony in New Caledonia arrived on Australian shores, raising concerns about physical as well as moral contamination. This article combines Australian sources with French consular and ministerial archives to examine the impact this little-known episode of trans-imperial history had on the early Australian federal process. The arr…
The Scum of France’
Between the 1860s and the early decades of the twentieth century, escaped and liberated French convicts from the penal colony in New Caledonia arrived on Australian shores, raising concerns about physical as well as moral contamination. This article combines Australian sources with French consular and ministerial archives to examine the impact this little-known episode of trans-imperial history had on the early Australian federal process. The arr…
Revisiting Australia’s cultural history
How to review a classic? John Rickard’s Australia: A Cultural History was published 30 years ago in 1988. Now in its third edition, it remains one of the best general national histories of Australi
The Scum of France’
Between the 1860s and the early decades of the twentieth century, escaped and liberated French convicts from the penal colony in New Caledonia arrived on Australian shores, raising concerns about physical as well as moral contamination. This article combines Australian sources with French consular and ministerial archives to examine the impact this little-known episode of trans-imperial history had on the early Australian federal process. The arr…
The Many Lives of the Count de Nérac
This article examines a short-lived and small iteration of sensationalist fiction published in latenineteenth century Australia that centred on New Caledonia and portrayed French characters and French convicts as villains. While rooted in the British genre of war literature and the Australian invasion “ripping yarn”, the corpus under study is unique in that it creates a new type of arch villain in the figure of the escaped convict-cum-French gent…
Australia and New Caledonia
Of sausages and positronic brains
Lady Anne Kerr
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) in 1966. She resigned from the profession and divorced her first husband in…
History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Alexander von Humboldt Studies (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Appeasement (1 work)