The winner will be announced at the 2026 Annual Conference.

Jennifer Rushworth, Proust's Songbook: Songs and Their Uses (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Max McGuinness, Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust (Liverpool University Press)

Helena Taylor, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (OUP)

Manon Mathias, Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine (Routledge)

Doyle D. Calhoun, The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire (Duke University Press)

Finally, our colleagues over at @frenchstudies.bsky.social have published a new issue of the French Studies Bulletin, which includes an interview with Jean d’Amérique on “C’est l’humanité qui est en danger en Haïti”: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/fsb 10/11

The grant commemorates the late Professor Simon Gaunt – a world-leading scholar who transformed the theoretical landscape of medieval studies – and his commitment, supportiveness and capacity to inspire as supervisor and mentor for postgraduate students.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £1000 and will be invited to next year's SFS conference in Leicester with fees and accommodation costs covered by the Society. 💷 🏨

The prize was established to honour the memory of Malcom Bowie (1947-2007), not only the most eminent and inspirational Anglophone scholar of French literature and theory of his generation, but a remarkable mentor to countless younger scholars, nationally and internationally.

The Society welcomes nominations from editors of learned journals, editors or publishers of collected volumes, and heads of university departments. Articles may be published anywhere in the world, but must be written in French or English. 🌍👩‍💻

The award includes:
- a cash prize of £250 💸
- expenses-paid travel to the next annual conference of the Society for French Studies 🚅🏛️
- mention in the French Studies Bulletin and on the Society for French Studies website 📚