News

The Society is delighted to announced that the 2019 Visiting International Fellowship has been awarded to Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University.

We have received reports that scammers have been contacting our conference delegates, claiming to represent the Society and offering to arrange hotel accommodation for the conference. If you are contacted by these people, it is important that you do not give away any personal information, including credit/debit card information.

Registration for the SFS annual conference, to be held this year at Royal Holloway University of London, is now open. Register by 28 April to benefit from special early bird rates!

The Society for French Studies is dismayed at the news that Modern Languages at the University of Reading is under threat of restructuring, involving the loss of between 8 and 13 academic staff. Our president, Judith Still, has sent a letter on behalf of the Society to Professor Mark Fellowes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Academic Planning and Resources. You can read the letter here.

The Society for French Studies is pleased to announce that the recipient of this year’s R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Madeleine Chalmers (Trinity College, University of Oxford), for an essay titled ‘The Surreal Technics of André Breton and Gilbert Simondon’.

The Society for French Studies wishes to express its support and solidarity for colleagues at the University of Hull, who have received the news that management have decided to suspend programmes in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English language in 2019. The Society's President, Professor Judith Still, has written to Hull's Vice-Chancellor to express our dismay at this decision. You can read her full letter here.

We also encourage members to sign the petition in support of Modern Languages at Hull, available here: https://www.change.org/p/the-dean-save-our-university-language-department

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the results of the R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize 2018.

In addition to the 2018-19 SFS Visiting International Fellow, Dr Natalie Edwards, who will be delivering a series of talks over the coming weeks, we are also delighted to welcome back this term the 2017-18 Fellow, Prof. Peggy McCracken, who will give talks rescheduled from last academic year at KCL, Oxford, Exeter, and Cambridge.

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.

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce that this year’s Prize Research Fellowship for mid-career to senior scholars has been awarded to Prof. Hugh Roberts (University of Exeter) for a project entitled: ‘Poetry on trial: a digital edition of French libertine verse and court records (c.1622–25)’.