News, March 2018

26 March 2018

We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Charlotte Thevenet, a doctoral researcher at University College London. The prize was awarded for an essay entitled ‘Réponse du « Juif » à l’antisémite: Derrida, commentateur de Hegel et Genet’. 

The Society offers its congratulations to Charlotte Thevenet on her achievement, and also to the joint runners-up for this year’s award: Liam Lewis of the University of Warwick (for an essay entitled ‘Sight, Sound, and the ‘Cri’ of the Mandrake in the Bestiary by Philippe de Thaon’) and Rebecca Sugden of the University of Cambridge (for an essay entitled ‘Malicious Fictions and Secret Histories in Balzac’s Une ténébreuse affaire’). 

22 March 2018

The Society’s annual scheme to allow overseas academics in French studies to visit institutions in the UK and Ireland is now open for applications for the 2018-19 session. The application deadline has been extended to 30 April 2018, in light of recent industrial action.

For further information about the scheme, click here.