Charlotte Mackay is a Lecturer in European Languages (French and Francophone Studies). She completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Melbourne and Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) in 2021 through a jointly-awarded Cotutelle degree. Charlotte researches Sub-Saharan Francophone literature, postcolonial/decolonial, diaspora, Black Atlantic, gender, trauma, memory and ecocritical studies. She has a specific interest in the writing of women authors from West and Central Africa and has published articles and book chapters on the fiction of Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano and on that of Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome. Her first monograph based on her doctoral research, Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome, was published in Peter Lang's Imagining Black Europe series in 2025. Her current book-length research project investigates literary representations of the Cameroonian War of Independance in the French-language writing of contemporary Cameroonian women writers. Charlotte is passionate about incorporating diverse and marginalised voices into the study of French-speaking societies and cultures. She is the project leader for the European Languages Decolonial Working Group whose objective is to decolonise, diversify, decentre and indigenise European Language and Cultural study at Monash University. 

Charlotte is willing to supervise research projects in any of the following fields:

French and Francophone literature, Sub-Saharan Francophone literature, postcolonial/decolonial, diaspora, Black Atlantic, gender, trauma, memory, fashion and ecocritical literary studies.