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

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

22 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (University of Cambridge) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley, Cambridge 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...


Read more at: Cambridge Emerita Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett co-edits Oxford Handbook of the French Language
Professor Wendy Bennett

Cambridge Emerita Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett co-edits Oxford Handbook of the French Language

11 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (University of Cambridge) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley) are pleased to announce the publication of The Oxford Handbook of the French Language , featuring 32 chapters by different specialists on French from a range of fields and disciplines. This volume provides the...


Read more at: Professor Gilby interviewed about her Leverhulme Fellowship

Professor Gilby interviewed about her Leverhulme Fellowship

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...


Read more at: Dr Solange Manche awarded Society for French Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship

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

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...


Read more at: Postgraduate Student wins Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Prize

Postgraduate Student wins Society of Dix-Neuviémistes' Prize

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...


Read more at: Postgraduate student wins Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France paper prize

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

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’.


Read more at: MMLL student wins Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition

MMLL student wins Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition

We are proud to share that Georgia Goble has won the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF) Brian Darling Memorial Essay Prize Competition with her essay on Loridan-Ivens, Ernaux and Levinas.


Read more at: MMLL Alumna featured in French Culture Lecture Series
Natalie Sauer

MMLL Alumna featured in French Culture Lecture Series

The investigative journalist and MMLL alumna, Natalie Sauer (Homerton 2013), delivered an engaging presentation as part of the French Culture Lecture Series for second-year French students on the 23rd of February.


Read more at: French Poetry Event at Trinity College
Beatrice Bonhomme

French Poetry Event at Trinity College

Please join us for an exceptional exhibition of the Trinity College French Poetry collection at the Wren Library, followed by a poetry reading by Béatrice Bonhomme.


Read more at: Dr Sura Qadiri awarded CRASSH Early Career Fellowship
Sura Qadiri

Dr Sura Qadiri awarded CRASSH Early Career Fellowship

We are proud to share that Dr Sura Qadiri has been awarded a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship to work on her current book manuscript, Postsecular Poetics: Reading Religion in French and Francophone Literature.


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

22 July 2024

22 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (University of Cambridge) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley, Cambridge 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...

Cambridge Emerita Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett co-edits Oxford Handbook of the French Language

11 July 2024

11 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (University of Cambridge) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley) are pleased to announce the publication of The Oxford Handbook of the French Language , featuring 32 chapters by different specialists on French from a range of fields and disciplines. This volume provides the...

Professor Gilby interviewed about her Leverhulme Fellowship

10 June 2024

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...