Rebecca du Plessis

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

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

So sad to read. I'd like to think people could just live their lives in peace. The 80-year-old WI member mentioned in this piece – heartbreaking www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NEED

Royal Shakespeare Company programme for Hamlet with Luke Thallon as Hamlet on front cover

Still absorbing this astonishing production I saw yesterday.

French Studies journal, issue 79.1. Newly designed front cover with new publisher, Liverpool University Press.

Internal page of French Stdudies 79.1 showing layout with half page of text and half-page illustration of an 18th-century map of the world and caption.

Delighted to pick up copies of the newly redesigned French Studies this weekend. Thank you to colleagues at @livunipress.bsky.social for the smooth transition and for seeing through the redesign and printing with high production values. @frenchstudies.bsky.social

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Vintage Oxford–Cambridge boat race poster with text in London Underground-style Gill Sans.

Some Gill Sans for you. My love language.

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Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:

If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.

Also wondering if using polenta instead of almonds would work for this. Might give it a try anyway

A John Lewis haberdashery, no less

Winter solstice sunset from a street with cars and tree in foreground.

Farewell to the setting sun. Happy winter solstice!

Merci, Gisèle.

Plus thermals and fleece

This afternoon I’m proofreading a book on Rilke in Paris

Controversially, no strong opinion on the Oxford comma. You do you. Whatever the text needs for clarity / whatever the client requires.

Hello, please could I be added to this when you can (PM)?

YouTube video by SpeechModification How to Pronounce Defense and Offense 2 Correct Ways

Niche language content alert. In case anyone else out there has wondered about the specifically NFL-context US pronunciation DEE-fense and OFF-ense. Just me then? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGK_...

Will actually be in the same room as Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati this afternoon… aaaaaaaaa

Two years’ break from Twitter = total overwhelm on joining Bluesky

#terrier #snow #dogs

Is this the wholesome anti-Twitter I have been waiting for?