Visiting international fellow, 2018-19

The Society is delighted to announce that the Visiting International Fellow for the 2018-19 session is Natalie Edwards, Associate Professor of French at the University of Adelaide. As part of her fellowship, Natalie will deliver talks and events at Cardiff, Exeter, the IMLR, Bath and Bristol. Her full itinerary, with links to open events, is as follows:

23 October

Postgraduate Workshop, Cardiff University: 'Understanding the Modern Languages Landscape Beyond Europe'

31 October, 3pm

SFS Lecture, Cardiff University: 'Lydie Salvayre and Translingual Autobiography' (full details here)

14 November

10:00 Lecture to MA Translation students, University of Exeter

10:30 Seminar to MA Translation students

11:30 Repeat seminar

3:30 Seminar: 'The Translingual Writing of Franco-Vietnamese Writer Kim Thúy' (details here)

16-17 November

Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies conference, IMLR (lecture on 'Hélène Cixous's Translingual Writing)

22 November

Conference on Women’s Writing, University of Bath: 'The Bilingual Autobiography of French-Australian author Catherine Rey' (details here)

23 November

Postgraduate Workshop, University of Bath

28 November

Seminar, University of Bristol: 'Hélène Cixous and Maryse Condé: Writing the Self Between Languages' (details here)

30 November

One-day conference, 'Bilingual Life Writing by Contemporary Women Writers', Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing, IMLR