DrJosephine Goldman

B.A. (Hons), PhD University of Sydney. 

Dr Josephine Goldman (she/her) is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and an early-career researcher. 

Her PhD, entitled “Diving into heavy waters: Water and gender in contemporary francophone Caribbean and Oceanian art and literature”, explored how cultural and gender identity shape expressions of human-water relationships, focusing on how the material of water holds onto the past and incubates imaginations of Oceanian and Caribbean futures. Her current research focuses on historical and contemporary interactions of water and sound in Francophone Oceanian art and knowledge circulation, especially in histories of nuclear colonialism, with a particular focus on podcasts.

She has published in the Australian Journal of French Studies, Francosphères, Literature & Aesthetics, and French Studies Bulletin, and was a contributed to the 2024 edited volume Francophone Oceania Today (Liverpool University Press).

She is Postgraduate Early Career and Sessional Academic Representative for Australian Society of French Studies; Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Representative for Women in French Australia; and co-founder of the ESTUARY: A Harbour for Salt and Fresh Water Studies, a transnational multidisciplinary network of salt- and fresh-water scholars. She is also co-creator of Positionalities: the Women in French International podcast.