We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference is now open. 🔔🔖
The conference will take place at KCL on 29 May 2026.
Deadline for submission is 20 March 2026.
See link for more details:
www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...
Promotional banner for French Studies: A Quarterly Review. On the left, blue text reads: “Publishing articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics, literature, thought and the history of ideas, and cultural studies.” The background features a subtle abstract pattern in pale lavender tones. Along the bottom are the Liverpool University Press logo (Founded 1899) and the Society for French Studies (SFS) logo. On the right is the cover of French Studies.
Most read in French Studies this week:
Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms by Colin Davis.
Read it in the French Studies online archive: bit.ly/FS-Hauntology
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#FrenchStudies #SubscribetoOpen
We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference is now open. 🔔🔖
The conference will take place at KCL on 29 May 2026.
Deadline for submission is 20 March 2026.
See link for more details:
www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...
🐦🐦⬛ Discounted "early bird" rates are available until Friday 13th March 2026. 🦜🪶
👉The final deadline for registration is Friday 27th March 2026.
We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference is now open.🔔
The conference will take place at the University of Leicester, 29 June - 1 July 2026.
See link below to register and check out the provisional programme:
www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...
A reminder that nominations for the 2025 Malcom Bowie Prize, for the best article published in 2025 by an ECR in the broader discipline of French Studies, is currently open and will close on 27 February 2026. 🖇️📚
For more information see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...
The Society for French Studies is now on LinkedIn! 🖇️ You can find us and join our new SFS LinkedIn Group via the link below. We will post SFS news on LinkedIn as on here, but you can also use the group to advertise events and opportunities related to the discipline.
www.linkedin.com/groups/16713...
🐦🐦⬛ Discounted "early bird" rates are available until Friday 13th March 2026. 🦜🪶
👉The final deadline for registration is Friday 27th March 2026.
We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference is now open.🔔
The conference will take place at the University of Leicester, 29 June - 1 July 2026.
See link below to register and check out the provisional programme:
www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...
To showcase research projects at Master’s and PhD level, we are pleased to invite expressions of interest in this year’s Postgraduate Poster Competition, which will be held at this year's annual conference in Leicester. See link below for more info:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/postg...
To showcase research projects at Master’s and PhD level, we are pleased to invite expressions of interest in this year’s Postgraduate Poster Competition, which will be held at this year's annual conference in Leicester. See link below for more info:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/postg...
Wow, check out the number of dix-neuviémiste titles on this list!!! This is such a striking showcase of the exciting and important work going on in our field at the moment! Congratulations to all!
The winner will be announced at the 2026 Annual Conference.
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Jennifer Rushworth, Proust's Songbook: Songs and Their Uses (University of Pennsylvania Press)
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Max McGuinness, Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust (Liverpool University Press)
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Helena Taylor, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (OUP)
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Manon Mathias, Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine (Routledge)
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Doyle D. Calhoun, The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire (Duke University Press)
The Society is delighted to announce the five shortlisted entries for this year's R. Gapper Book Prize:
Applications for this year's SFS Visiting International Fellowship are now open and will close on 31 March 2026. 🌍
For more information about the scheme and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/visi...
Applications for this year's SFS Visiting International Fellowship are now open and will close on 31 March 2026. 🌍
For more information about the scheme and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/visi...
A reminder that nominations for the 2025 Malcom Bowie Prize, for the best article published in 2025 by an ECR in the broader discipline of French Studies, is currently open and will close on 27 February 2026. 🖇️📚
For more information see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/malco...
A wonderful initiative
Important interview free to read here. Congratulations to both Martin and Dave @frenchstudies.bsky.social
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
The Society for French Studies is now on LinkedIn! 🖇️ You can find us and join our new SFS LinkedIn Group via the link below. We will post SFS news on LinkedIn as on here, but you can also use the group to advertise events and opportunities related to the discipline.
www.linkedin.com/groups/16713...
Finally, our colleagues over at @frenchstudies.bsky.social have published a new issue of the French Studies Bulletin, which includes an interview with Jean d’Amérique on “C’est l’humanité qui est en danger en Haïti”: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/fsb 10/11
Graphic to promote the journal 'French Studies': Navy blue text reads ‘Publishing articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics, literature, thought and the history of ideas, and cultural studies’. Journal cover for French Studies sits to the right of the text. The cover is a warm cream with a rich red uppercase font for the journal's title. A red line sits under the title and under that the table of contents is listed in a small black font. The Liverpool University Press logo sits in the left corner, it features a dark red minimalist swoosh which represents the Liver Bird, text underneath reads Liverpool University Press founded 1899. The Society for French Studies logo sits alongside. The logo is made up of a coral-coloured circle, a blue square, and a gold triangle which overlap to create a purple colour. In the background sits a soft lilac graphic with light grey lines running in different directions.
We are pleased to share that David Evans is the new General Editor of French Studies, succeeding Martin Crowley after seven years. We thank Martin for his leadership.
An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
A reminder that the closing date for submissions for the R. Gapper PG Essay Prize is next Monday 1 December 2025: 👇🔔
Photo of Simon Gaunt
The grant commemorates the late Professor Simon Gaunt – a world-leading scholar who transformed the theoretical landscape of medieval studies – and his commitment, supportiveness and capacity to inspire as supervisor and mentor for postgraduate students.
Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 7th April 2026.
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
