Natalie Edwards

So pleased to host the Society of French Studies and promote the value, impact and importance of research in modern languages @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Sign the Petition Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

Life Writing as World Literature A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life wri…

I love working on migration whilst I'm in transit, and wrote this on trains and during a long lay-over at Hong Kong airport: Caribbean Life Writing as World Literature in www.bloomsbury.com/uk/life-writ... @frenchatbristol.bsky.social @mmbuob.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ - Research Professional News British Academy report calls for more recognition of linguistic ability, including in Research Excellence Framework

UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

SFPS Essay Prize 2025 @sfps.bsky.social invites PhD students and early-career academics to submit a contribution for the annual SFPS Essay Prize. Submissions (5,000 words) must respond to the theme ‘The End(s) of Empire’ sfps.org.uk/sfps-essay-p...

We are now recruiting to three Career Development Fellowships (in French, History, and Italian) and PhD studentships made possible by the generous support of Joanna and Graham Barker.

Please spread the news. Interested candidates can read more here www.durham.ac.uk/IMEMS/InventingFutures

2025 Annual Conference The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for this year's Annual Conference in Bristol. A provisional programme and information about available funding can be found on our website.

Register before Friday 28 February for a discounted early bird rate! 🐣

www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts

Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A reminder that the deadline for receipt of nominations for the 2024 Malcom Bowie Prize is in just a few weeks! 📨👇

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 4th April 2025.

For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:

www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...

Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives Published in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

The Introduction to our Australian Research Council funded Special Issue of a/b Auto/Biography Studies, "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives" is FREE access. Take a peak www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....