Society for scholars and students of French in higher education
United Kingdom and Ireland
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We are pleased to announce the CFP for next year's annual conference which will take place at the University of Galway.
The deadline for submissions is 18 September 2026.
For more information see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/conferences/2027-a…
🔔🖇️ A reminder that the deadline for proposals for next year's annual conference in Galway is coming up in a couple of weeks: 🗒️✍️
We are pleased to announce the CFP for next year's annual conference which will take place at the University of Galway.
The deadline for submissions is 18 September 2026.
For more information see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/conferences/2027-a…
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📚 The Society for French Studies is inviting submissions for the 2026 R. Gapper Book Prize for a book published in 2025. 📖
The closing date for the prize is Friday 28 August 2026.
For more information, see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-bo…
📚 The Society for French Studies is inviting submissions for the 2026 R. Gapper Book Prize for a book published in 2025. 📖
The closing date for the prize is Friday 28 August 2026.
For more information, see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-bo…
French Studies retweeted
Submissions for the 2026 R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize are now open. The closing date is 17 July 2026.
For more information about the prize and how your institution can submit entries, see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-un…
If you would like to express your solidarity for colleagues at Exeter who are facing the threat of redundancy and protest the university's decision to impose cuts across the humanities and social sciences, you can do so by signing the petition below:
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Our Annual Conference in Leicester closes with the Simon Gaunt Memorial Lecture which this year was delivered by Jean-Christophe Abramovici
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ALT Jean-Christophe Abramovici
Another great day at the SFS Annual Conference in Leicester with keynotes by Mary Harrod and Camille Robcis
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ALT Camille Robcis speaking
Our 2026 Annual Conference kicks off with a welcome by Society President Nicholas Harrison and a plenary lecture by Patrick Crowley on 'Literary Criticism in a Time Before "After"' #SFSLeicester
ALT Patrick Crowley speaking in front of SFS conference audience
ALT Nicholas Harrison speaking
French Studies retweeted
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 R. Gapper Book Prize is Helena Taylor for her book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press).
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ALT Image of Helena Taylor for her book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press)
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 R. Gapper Book Prize is Helena Taylor for her book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press).
sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-bo…
ALT Image of Helena Taylor for her book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press)
Submissions for the 2026 R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize are now open. The closing date is 17 July 2026.
For more information about the prize and how your institution can submit entries, see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-un…
French Studies retweeted
We are pleased to congratulate Dr Abigail E. Celis (Université de Montréal), winner of the 2026-27 Visiting International Fellowship, and Dr Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool) and Dr Joseph Ford (University of London), the host applicants.
French Studies retweeted
We are looking to fill three upcoming vacancies:
🔹 Assistant Editor of French Studies Bulletin
🔹 SFS Conference Officer
🔹 SFS Postgraduate Officer
If you're interested in applying for one of these roles, see details via the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/vacancies-on-the-s…
French Studies retweeted
It was a privilege to be one of the judges of these wonderful submissions. Congratulations to Lili Owen Rowlands and all the shortlisted authors 💫
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Malcolm Bowie Prize is Lili Owen Rowlands for her chapter, ‘Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Contemporary French Feminisms’, in Autotheories (MIT, 2025)
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Malcolm Bowie Prize is Lili Owen Rowlands for her chapter, ‘Begging to Differ: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Contemporary French Feminisms’, in Autotheories (MIT, 2025)
direct.mit.edu/books/edited-…
Pierre Forfert, ‘Balzac's Poplar Trees: The Economy of Timber in Eugénie Grandet.’ The Balzac Review/Revue Balzac, 8 (2025)
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Manon Raffard, ‘From Coumarou to New-Mown-Hay. A Cultural History of Coumarin Across the Atlantic (C17th -20th)’, in The Routledge History of the Senses, eds Andrew Kettler and Will Tullett (Routledge, 2025)
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