Barthes Studies

There’s no French version of this short text in Barthes’s Œuvres complètes, and it’s not mentioned in Thierry Leguay’s ‘Roland Barthes: bibliographie générale (textes et voix), 1942-1981’.

NB: The version on the TLS website also includes Barthes’s nomination for the ‘overrated’ category (Malraux).
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Includes a response by Roland Barthes. (Thanks to @johnwbuaas.bsky.social for pointing this out.)

The Séminaire annuel de l’équipe Barthes is about to begin again at the École normale supérieure in Paris. The programme of events, which are open to all, is here:
roland-barthes.org/seminaire/

Several of the articles in this 2020 special issue titled Neutral Life/Late Barthes — including Barthes’s ‘Colouring Degree Zero’ — are currently free to read in OA format.

Plus:

Patrick ffrench reviews Claude Coste’s Dictionnaire Roland Barthes;
Michael Wood reviews John Lurz’s The Barthes Fantastic;
Andy Stafford reports on the Global Barthes symposium in Leeds in June.

This year’s volume features:

Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.

Lilac sheet of paper with blue handwriting: Volume 11 — pagination 1. Editorial 1 2. Thompson 2-23 3. Marsellus 24-47 (The next line is cut off but you can just about make out 48-75 on the right.)

Volume 11 of Barthes Studies is nearly ready — I’m doing proofs and pagination — and will be published on 12 November (Barthes’s birthday).

Thank you! Happy to be of service.

Close up of the number 11 in white on a black clock face.

Volume 11 of Barthes Studies — an un-themed general issue — will be published on 12 November 2025.

We’re open to submissions for future volumes; contact details are here:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/

Contributors: Brian Blanchfield, Kate Briggs, Victor Burgin, Bryan Counter, Anfisa Doroshenko, Nicholas P. Greco, Sunil Manghani, Michael Regan, Ruiqi Wang, Rudolphus Teeuwen, and Katarina Zdjelar. Reviews by David F. Bell and Armine Kotin Mortimer + a conference report from Tokyo by Andy Stafford.

Volumes Visit the post for more.

Volume 10 of Barthes Studies is now available online. All articles are free to read. This year’s volume is a special issue titled ‘Preparations’, guest-edited by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...

Thank you for thinking of me!

The Scottish Literary Review (@scotlit.bsky.social) has published a study of the work of the late Callie Gardner. Callie was the first Reviews Editor of Barthes Studies and their Cardiff PhD thesis became the wonderful Poetry & Barthes book in 2018.

muse.jhu.edu/article/930914

Sometimes finding just an image is all I can manage.