French News

Two French poetry events with Sandra Moussempès

Robert Lee — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:04:07 +0000

All are welcome to two events supported by the Society for French Studies, the �� and the University of Birmingham.

MMLL students and staff attend Choix Goncourt UK 2025

Robert Lee — Fri, 02 May 2025 09:43:40 +0000

On Friday 28 March, MMLL students Anjola Adesina and Ava Rourke, accompanied by Professor Christophe Gagne and Dr. Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde, joined attendees from fourteen other British universities for the final selection and prize giving of the 2025 Choix Goncourt UK.

Professor Sonia Zlitni Fitouri to visit MMLL

Robert Lee — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:52:26 +0000

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sonia Zlitni Fitouri from the University of Tunis to MMLL. Her visit will take place from Monday 28 April to Friday 2 May.

Dr Emma Claussen co-hosts 'Proust Curious' podcast with Public Books

Jay Richardson — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:04:44 +0000

Dr Emma Claussen (MMLL, ��) and Dr Hannah Weaver (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) are Proust Curious. Their new podcast , produced in partnership with Public Books, covers the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu —all seven volumes. Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone, written...

Translation of Professor Mark Darlow's 'Staging the French Revolution' published

Jay Richardson — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:40:25 +0000

Professor Mark Darlow's 2012 book Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794 (New York: Oxford University Press) has just appeared in Chinese translation with Orpheus Music Series. The book was runner-up for the Gapper Prize of the Society for French Studies and has established itself...

Prof Wendy Ayres-Bennett: New handbook combines wide coverage with cutting-edge research

Jay Richardson — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:38:42 +0000

22 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (��) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley, �� alumna) have co-edited the newly published Oxford Handbook of the French Language , featuring 32 chapters by different specialists on French from a range of fields and disciplines. In this interview...

Professor Gilby interviewed about her Leverhulme Fellowship

K.E. Crowcroft — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:02:35 +0000

Professor Emma Gilby, Professor of Modern Literature and Thought and Bye-Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project ‘Women and the Making of Modern Languages: A New Modernism’. Around the turn of the twentieth century, two social...

Dr Solange Manche awarded Society for French Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship

K.E. Crowcroft — Wed, 22 May 2024 09:24:25 +0000

Congratulations to Dr Solange Manche, who has been awarded The Society for French Studies 2024-25 Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Her project includes both the reworking and publication of her doctoral thesis and the development of a new postdoctoral project provisionally entitled ‘Planning for a Better Life in the Anthropocene...

Postgraduate Student wins Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Prize

K.E. Crowcroft — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:12:20 +0000

Ellamae Lepper, one of our current PhD students in French, was awarded the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Postgraduate Prize . The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) Postgraduate Prize is awarded for the best postgraduate conference paper submitted for the Society’s Annual Conference . Her paper was titled 'Veiling and...

Postgraduate student wins Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France paper prize

Lauren Byrnes — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:35:43 +0000

We are proud to share that Ry Montgomery has just won the ASMCF Postgraduate Paper Prize for their paper, 'Sous les pavés, le Souk: reframing (re)public(an) space in the cinema of Lionel Soukaz’.