French Studies

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...

Postgraduate Poster Competition The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

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...

Postgraduate Poster Competition The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

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:

Visiting International Fellowships The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

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...

Visiting International Fellowships The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

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...

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...

A wonderful initiative

Whither French Studies? An Interview with Martin Crowley and David Evans | French Studies Bulletin If the article has an Altmetric Attention Score, you will find this displayed below.

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...

French Studies Bulletin Home French Studies Bulletin is included in a subscription to its sister journal French Studies.

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.

The Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

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-...

The winner will receive a cash prize of £1000 and will be invited to next year's SFS conference in Leicester with fees and accommodation costs covered by the Society. 💷 🏨

Painting of Malcom Bowie

The prize was established to honour the memory of Malcom Bowie (1947-2007), not only the most eminent and inspirational Anglophone scholar of French literature and theory of his generation, but a remarkable mentor to countless younger scholars, nationally and internationally.

The Society welcomes nominations from editors of learned journals, editors or publishers of collected volumes, and heads of university departments. Articles may be published anywhere in the world, but must be written in French or English. 🌍👩‍💻

The award includes:
- a cash prize of £250 💸
- expenses-paid travel to the next annual conference of the Society for French Studies 🚅🏛️
- mention in the French Studies Bulletin and on the Society for French Studies website 📚

We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year's R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay prize is Eve Coiley (University of Oxford). We warmly congratulate her and extend our thanks to all institutions that submitted entries.

The award includes:
– a cash prize of £750 💸
– expenses-paid travel to the next annual conference of the Society for French Studies 🚅 🏛️
– mention in the French Studies Bulletin and on the Society for French Studies website 🇫🇷📚

R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

Submissions for this year's R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize – awarded to an essay of outstanding academic merit at postgraduate level – will open tomorrow, 1 November 2025.

For more information about eligibility and how to submit an entry, see the link below:

www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...