Poster for the talk featuring a French imperial soldier attacking cholera with a phenol cannon.
Will be presenting some of my work on phenol disinfection, cholera policy and socio-environmental violence this Thursday at 7pm BST!
Info: www.chstm.org/group/health...
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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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I’m very honored to be featured on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in #FrenchStudies Podcast. I discuss my monograph “Grrrl Writing” on @virginiedespentes.bsky.social with Prof. Gina Stamm, whom I thank for hosting me
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newbooksnetwork.com/grrrl-writing
A promotional graphic for Contemporary French Civilization, a journal published by Liverpool University Press. On the left, white text on a dark blue marbled background reads: “Devoted to all aspects of civilization and cultural studies in France and the Francophone world.”
Most read in Contemporary French Civilization:
Voice-over and sharing bodies in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse (2016) by Athena Fokaidis.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/CFC-Alice-Diop
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
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📢Job Alert: The Department of French and Francophone Studies at @batescollege.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time, two-year visiting assistant professor position, to begin July 2026. Details: apply.interfolio.com/180432 #teachingjobs #francophonestudies #Frenchstudies
📢Job Alert: The Department of French & Francophone Studies at Dickinson College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor. Five-course teaching load (mix of language & content courses) dickinson.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/d... #FrenchStudies #FrancophoneStudies #teachingjobs
Great to see #PeterLangOxford's books making it to Australia for #ASFS! Wishing our Australian authors and editors a wonderful conference! #FrenchStudies @valentinagosetti.bsky.social
📢Job Alert: Somerville College proposes to appoint a 12-hour Stipendiary Lecturer in French for the 2026-27 academic year to support the College’s needs whilst Simon Kemp, the College’s Tutorial Fellow in French, is on leave. Details: isw.changeworknow.co.uk/somerville_c... #Lecturer #Frenchstudies
📢Job Alert: The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in French & Medieval Studies to begin Aug. 16, 2026 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... #frenchstudies #medievalstudies #teachingjobs
Visa delivered, contracts signed, plane booked: I'm starting as a Hallsworth Research Fellow (2025-2028) at @manchester.ac.uk next week! I'll be looking into smell and socio-environmental inequality in 19th c. Paris.
Loads of exciting stuff upcoming :))
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My book cover is finalized. I took this photo on a lunch break at the Maison d'Izieu.
Stay tuned, the book is scheduled to come out in June 2026!
iupress.org/978025307582...
#France #FrenchStudies @iupress.bsky.social
Social media banner announcing the new issue of French Studies Bulletin. On the left, blue text reads: “New Issue Out Now – Featuring the R. Gapper Undergraduate Prize-Winning Essay 2024”. Beneath are the logos of Liverpool University Press and the Society for French Studies. On the right, the journal cover is shown, with the title French Studies Bulletin in red and details of the latest issue (Volume 46 Number 4, October 2025), including article titles.
The new issue of French Studies Bulletin is now available, featuring Imogen Whalley’s R. Gapper Undergraduate Prize-winning essay on repetition and innovation in medieval French literature. Available online: bit.ly/FSB-Vol-46-4
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Take a look at the Contemporary French Civilization 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time.
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🎉 Contemporary French Civilization celebrates 50 years!
Marking this milestone, the editorial team reflects in a special blog post—and explore the 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time.
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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.
📑 Most read in the latest issue of French Studies
Susan Harrow’s review of ‘Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature’ by Helen Craske.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/FS-Helen-Craske
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Banner announcing a special issue of Contemporary French Civilization. On the left, white text on a blue abstract background reads: “SPECIAL ISSUE: From author films to operational images: French and francophone documentary practices in the new millennium.” At the bottom left is the Liverpool University Press logo and the text “Liverpool University Press, Founded 1899.” On the right, a blue journal cover displays the title Contemporary French Civilization in large white letters. Smaller text notes: “An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of French-speaking cultures throughout the world.”
A new special issue of Contemporary French Civilization examines French & francophone documentary cinema in the new millennium. Essays explore aesthetic, ethical & political debates shaping the field.
Browse the issue online at🔗 bit.ly/CFC-Vol-50-3
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies
Promotional banner for the French Studies Bulletin, a quarterly supplement published by Liverpool University Press for the Society for French Studies. The left side features a blue marbled background with the text: “Publishing articles, conference reports, and news from the postgraduate community and the Society for French Studies.” Below are the Liverpool University Press logo and the Society for French Studies logo. On the right, the cover for the latest issue is shown, featuring a cream background with the title “French Studies Bulletin” in large red serif type, a thin red horizontal line, and black serif text beneath.
📣 Most read in the latest issue of French Studies Bulletin
‘Walking through the Land of Old Age with Marianne Ahrne and Pépo Angel’ by Sophia Millman.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/landofoldage
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@rebeccaromney.com —there’s the Peacock edition of Jane Austen….and then there’s this… behold these covers. 👇😂
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📢Job Announcement: Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages (French). Tenure-track position, in-person classes, beginning August 27, 2026. Details: bit.ly/4m3nmmi #teachingjobs #frenchstudies #francophonestudies
'A bilingual, Open Access journal questioning the presence of French language and culture across borders, with (post)colonial encounters and decolonial perspectives' written on a purple banner with a blue and pink gradient background with the Francospheres cover to the left.
📖 Most read in Francosphères this week: 'Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce: Paradoxes of identity and visibility in the littérature-monde paradigm' by Lorenza Starace
Read it #OpenAccess on the LUP website: bit.ly/Franc-Starace @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies #intersectionality
After "Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image" (@livunipress.bsky.social, 2010), here's Andy Stafford's new book on photo-texts, published by Legenda @themhra.bsky.social www.mhra.org.uk/publications... - Félicitations, Andy! #phototexts #photography #frenchstudies
📢Job Announcement: The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at @baylor.bsky.social invites applications for the position of Lecturer in French. Deadline: 15 October. Details > apply.interfolio.com/169000 #teachingjobs #frenchstudies #francophonestudies #teachingfrench
📢Job Announcement: The School of Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics at @unioflimerick.bsky.social seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in French for a period of one year, from September 2025. Closing date: 17 July. Details > universityvacancies.com/university-l... #teachingjobs #frenchstudies
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.
NEW | Volume 79.3 examines the contested authorship of Labé’s sonnets, Racine’s Phèdre through Sappho, and Paris’s transformation under Haussmann, alongside fresh studies in literary history, language & African urbanism.
Explore the issue: bit.ly/FS-79-3
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Graphic for a new journal issue: Background is a dark and bright blue image of marbleised paint. A journal cover for 'Contemporary French Civilization' sits to the right, the journal's title is a fresh white modern font and the cover is a navy blue. White text to the left reads 'Special Issue, Discourse and Society in the Global French-Speaking World'. The Liverpool University Press logo sits in the bottom left, it features a minimalist swoosh which represents the Liver Bird, text underneath reads 'Liverpool University Press Founded 1899', the logo is white.
📢 New special issue of Contemporary French Civilization: Discourse & Society in the Global French-Speaking World.
Explore research on language, identity & power across francophone contexts.
Online at: bit.ly/Discourse-and-Society
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #DiscourseAnalysis #FrenchStudies
Graphic for the journal CFC Intersections: Black classic font overlaid on a warm white background reads 'CFC Intersections a new publishing outlet for scholarship related to intersectionality in French and Francophone Studies'. Behind this sits a close up of a stone mosaic in dark and light teal blue and a stone tone. The Liverpool University Press logo sits in the top left corner, it is white and features a minimalist swoosh that represents the Liver Bird, text blow reads 'Liverpool University Press established 1899.' The journal cover sits to the right, it features the same mosaic design with 'CFC Intersections' overlaid in the centre in a warm white blocky font.
📑 This week’s most read article from CFC Intersections:
'The limits of White hospitality in Marie Darrieussecq’s ‘La Mer à l’envers’', by Amanda Vredenburgh.
Available to read online at: bit.ly/White-Hospitality
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies #intersectionality
Job announcement: The Department of World Languages & Cultures in Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences invites applications for a full-time, visiting faculty position to start Aug. 1, 2025. Details: merceruniversity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/extern... #teachingjobs #frenchstudies
Job announcement: @alleghenycollege.bsky.social invites applicants for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor of French for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years. Details > sites.allegheny.edu/human-resour... #teachingjobs #teachingfrench #frenchstudies #francophonestudies
Job announcement: A 2-year teaching and research lectureship in French & Francophone Studies (full-time) at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @lcsleeds.bsky.social (grade 7) - open specialism. Closing date: 20 May jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #frenchstudies #francophonestudies #teachingjobs
Dr. Mensimah Thompson-Kwaffo: Meet The First Woman to Earn PhD in French from University of Ghana: The Department of French at the University of Ghana, Legon, has announced a historic academic milestone: Dr. Mensimah… #DrMensimahThompsonKwaffo #PhD #WomenInAcademia #UniversityOfGhana #FrenchStudies
