Wallace Kirsop FAHA (born 4 November 1933) is an eminent Australian scholar in French studies and in book trade history.
From early in his career at Monash he insisted on a syllabus that moved beyond the normal bounds of French language and literature to include social and cultural history.
[4] In 1980-1981 he held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge University speaking on "Books for Colonial Readers: The Nineteenth Century Australian Experience".
He was the founding editor of the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations's Explorations journal[1] and was a board member of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
[4] Following his retirement he was appointed Honorary Professorial Fellow at Monash and as at 2018 he was "an Adjunct Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics" at the same university.