We warmly congratulate both authors. We would like to thank all entrants and their institutions. A reminder about how we judge the Prize is available on our website. Information on the next iteration of the prize will be available in November 2026.
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...
The Jury adjudged ‘From Dragons to Divinators: Re-Imagining Muslim Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle’, by Saaleha Iqbal (University of Leeds), to be the runner up.
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Isabel Maloney (University of Cambridge), for her essay, entitled ‘The Communard Family in Léon Cladel’s Censored Short Fiction’.
Registration for the 2026 SFS Postgraduate Conference is now open. The conference will take place on Friday 29th May 2026 at KCL.
The deadline for registration is 8 May 2026.
See link below for more info:
www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...
Banner promoting French Studies: A Quarterly Review (Volume 80, Number 2, April 2026). On the left, 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.” On the right is the journal cover listing article titles and authors. Along the bottom are the logos for Liverpool University Press and the Society for French Studies.
📖 Most read article in French Studies this week:
Autofiction in the Feminine by Shirley Jordan
Available to read at: bit.ly/Autofiction-in-the-Feminine
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#FrenchStudies
We warmly congratulate both authors. We would like to thank all entrants and their institutions. A reminder about how we judge the Prize is available on our website. Information on the next iteration of the prize will be available in November 2026.
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...
The Jury adjudged ‘From Dragons to Divinators: Re-Imagining Muslim Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle’, by Saaleha Iqbal (University of Leeds), to be the runner up.
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Isabel Maloney (University of Cambridge), for her essay, entitled ‘The Communard Family in Léon Cladel’s Censored Short Fiction’.
Thank you to all those participating in this year's annual conference who have already registered.
⏰For anyone who has not been able to do this, we are extending the window for registration until next Thursday 2 April 2026.⌛️
Link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/shop/tickets...
Thank you to all those participating in this year's annual conference who have already registered.
⏰For anyone who has not been able to do this, we are extending the window for registration until next Thursday 2 April 2026.⌛️
Link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/shop/tickets...
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 the deadline for submissions for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference is this Friday 20 March 2026 🖇️📜👇
A reminder that the deadline for submissions for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference is this Friday 20 March 2026 🖇️📜👇
🐦🐦⬛🦆 Reminder to our annual conference delegates that you can get a discounted "early bird" rate if you register before this Friday 13th March 2026 🐣🦜🪶 Link below:
A reminder that there's about a month left to send in applications for the Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant. See below for details: 👇
A reminder that there's about a month left to send in applications for the Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant. See below for details: 👇
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
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
#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.
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)