Acknowledgements

Not only about journeys, this book has been a journey, and a transformative one. I am very grateful to colleagues who have sustained me on that journey, in particular Barbara Hanna, co-author of Chapter 7, whose ideas helped launch the project, Greg Hainge who helped steer it when the way forward was unclear and offered invaluable insights and inspiration, and to fellow travellers Peter Cowley, Joe Hardwick, Amy Hubbell and Geoff Wilkes, who provided food for thought along the way.

The School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland (UQ) has been the home base for the project and I would like to thank sincerely the school as a whole for the considerable material and personal support it has provided during both rough times and smooth sailing. UQ’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities contributed a valuable six-month fellowship to bring the project to fruition, and indeed offered fellowship itself, both of which I appreciated greatly.

Conferences in Australia, Britain and France provided opportunities for discussing and refining ideas, and I am grateful to the organisers and to conference participants from around the world for their comments and insights. Early versions of some chapters/sections were published as journal articles and I would like to acknowledge UTS ePress for permission to reprint material from the following two articles:

• de Nooy, Juliana. 2012. ‘The Transcultural Self: Mapping a French Identity in Contemporary Australian Women’s Travel Memoirs’. Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 9 (2). doi.org/10.5130/portal.v9i2.1613.
• Hanna, Barbara E and Juliana de Nooy. 2006. ‘The Seduction of Sarah: Travel Memoirs and Intercultural Learning’. Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 3 (2). doi.org/10.5130/portal.v3i2.117.

Liverpool University Press for permission to reprint material from:

• de Nooy, Juliana. 2016. ‘Distant (Be)longings: Contemporary Australian Memoirs of Life in France’. Australian Journal of French Studies 53 (1–2): 39–52. doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2016.04.

and Taylor and Francis for permission to reprint material from:

• de Nooy, Juliana. 2015. ‘Postfeminist Worldmaking in Australian Memoirs of Life in France’. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 62 (1): 55–61. doi.org/10.1179/2051285615Z.00000000050.
• de Nooy, Juliana. 2015. ‘Encountering Language Difference in Australian Memoirs of Living in France’. Life Writing 12 (1): 25–42. doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2015.982493.

I would also like to thank Penguin Random House Australia and Penguin Random House for permission to reproduce the covers of the Australian and US editions of Sarah Turnbull’s Almost French in Chapter 7.

Beth Battrick of Teaspoon Consulting provided expert editing, which was greatly appreciated.

And finally, thank you to my family for your patience, encouragement and understanding throughout the journey.