SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk

SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies)

@semfsuk.bsky.social

The official Bluesky of the Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS). Visit us at https://www.semfs.org.uk/ . For our peer-reviewed journal, 'Early Modern French Studies', see https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yemf20

112 Followers | 156 Following | 6 Posts | Joined: 27.07.2025 | 1.7893

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#CfP Call for Papers for the @semfsuk.bsky.social Annual Conference: ‘Freedom’ / ‘La Liberté’ (6-8 July 2026, University of Glasgow). Please submit proposals by 28 November 2025 to eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk, and remember to join SEMFS first!: semfs.org.uk/join/

21.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to SEMFS member Marina Perkins, whose new monograph 'Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne’s Essais' is out now! www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

02.09.2025 09:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Take a look at SEMFS member Emma Gilby's latest book, 'Descartes and the Non-Human', at www.cambridge.org/core/element...

07.08.2025 10:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

Have you listened to this episode of BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' on Molière yet? Featuring Melvyn Bragg alongside three SEMFS members: Professors Jan Clarke, Joe Harris, and Noel Peacock. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

01.08.2025 09:11 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

From 'Nature on Stage', to 'Ethics in La Fontaine', to a lively conference dinner in sunny Manchester - some snaps of our 2025 annual conference.

28.07.2025 09:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

The schedule from our annual conference earlier in July 2025, on the theme of 'Nature.'

27.07.2025 18:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@semfsuk is following 20 prominent accounts

@bluewes

@caitlindahl

Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie
@kirsteenmm

Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696

Allison Adler Inglis-Taylor
@allisonadler

PG Modern European political and diplomatic history. Owned by setters Tess & Cora.

Niall Oddy
@nialloddy

Early modernist, working on travel and cross-cultural encounter. Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun. Learning Polish. May post cat pics

NM Betancur
@nmbetancur

art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture

Marissa Perez
@lepidoptrist

pre-doctoral art history fellow @yale British and French empire, natural materials (pearls, feathers, "exotic" plants, etc), the "tropics," and circulation of all of these between the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Atlantic world. Early modern to 19thc.

Elsbeth
@historecluse

Historian of epidemics, exhibitions, hospital medicine, the state, taxes, civilization and, currently, US economic thought.

Katie Murphy
@manymanyplies

Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2026: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.

Christopher Burlinson
@cmburlinson

A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.

@danalungu

Pilar Botías Domínguez
@pilarbotias

Lecturer at University of Córdoba (Spain) | Restoration & 18thC literature | Masquerade, female wit, gender politics, literary translation | Research group HUM-682 | BSECS, SEDERI & WSG member

Joanna Barker
@barkerjoannam

Jack Nunn
@jacknunn1

Writing a PhD on anthology-making in late medieval and early Renaissance France #FirstGen https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/jack-nunn

Volker Schröder
@marphurius

Associate prof of French (emeritus) at Princeton. Working mostly on 17th-cy literature and culture, with a focus on bibliography, including manuscripts and prints. Research blog: anecdota.princeton.edu. Also on Mastodon: @Marphurius@hcommons.social

Katherine Stratton
@katherines

PhD Researcher in French at St Andrews interested in horsemanship and education in early modern France.

@shielsmc

Teacher. Global citizen. Bluestocking

Michael Moriarty
@michaelmoriartyfr

Emeritus Professor of French, University of Cambridge

Jérôme Brillaud
@jeromebrillaud

My research is on early modern kitchen gardens in France and England. Associate Prof/SL at U. of Manchester. Certified permaculturist.

Renaissance Society of America
@rsaorg

The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA26 to join the Annual Meeting conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.