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Read more at: Dr Emma Claussen co-hosts 'Proust Curious' podcast with Public Books

Dr Emma Claussen co-hosts 'Proust Curious' podcast with Public Books

Dr Emma Claussen (MMLL, Cambridge) and Dr Hannah Weaver (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) are Proust Curious. Their new podcast , produced in partnership with Public Books, covers the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu —all seven volumes. Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone, written...


Read more at: Translation of Professor Mark Darlow's 'Staging the French Revolution' published

Translation of Professor Mark Darlow's 'Staging the French Revolution' published

Professor Mark Darlow's 2012 book Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794 (New York: Oxford University Press) has just appeared in Chinese translation with Orpheus Music Series. The book was runner-up for the Gapper Prize of the Society for French Studies and has established itself...


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: 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.


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Dr Emma Claussen co-hosts 'Proust Curious' podcast with Public Books

23 October 2024

Dr Emma Claussen (MMLL, Cambridge) and Dr Hannah Weaver (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) are Proust Curious. Their new podcast , produced in partnership with Public Books, covers the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu —all seven volumes. Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone, written...

Translation of Professor Mark Darlow's 'Staging the French Revolution' published

22 October 2024

Professor Mark Darlow's 2012 book Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794 (New York: Oxford University Press) has just appeared in Chinese translation with Orpheus Music Series. The book was runner-up for the Gapper Prize of the Society for French Studies and has established itself...