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Andrew Ogilvy @andrewogilvy.com · 24d

Details of the brutalist Thomas White Building at St John's College, @ox.ac.uk by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates

#MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday

Minimal photographic diptych showing details of the brutalist Thomas White Building at St John's College, Oxford by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.

There are watermarks with the initials AO in the middle left hand side of each photograph.

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Andrew Ogilvy @andrewogilvy.com · 23d

Inside and outside the stunning brutalist Hilda Besse Building at St Antony's College, @ox.ac.uk by John Partridge of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. Also featuring part of the Zaha Hadid Architects building at the College.

#MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday

Minimal photographic diptych of an interior and exterior the brutalist Hilda Besse Building at St Antony’s College, Oxford by John Partridge of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. The right hand image also features part of the Zaha Hadid Architects building at the college and the spire of church behind that.

There are watermarks with the initials AO in both photographs.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship.

The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works.

Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026.

📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025

Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · Aug 27

The deadline of 1 September is fast approaching - be sure to send your applications in!

SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨

Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies.

Send us your application by 1 September!

More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/

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Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · Aug 19

Publication day!!

Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more

🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨

Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819

Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Aug 18

Great piece @padrig.bsky.social

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Aug 18

“But the provincial, who is the true explorer, needs to experience for himself the things that will disappoint. Second-hand disappointment won’t do.”

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 18

‘The train can be the crowded 6.41 from Bromley or it can be the Orient Express, but it’s still doing the same job, on the same rails, reminding you that tedium and exhilaration are different not in kind but merely in degree.’

Patrick McGuinness on trains, from 2017: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Patrick McGuinness · Diary: Railway Poetry

In Europe what you hear on trains is minimal and informative: you get told your destination and the stops as they...

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨

Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies.

Send us your application by 1 September!

More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/

SDN

Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…

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France Culture @franceculture.fr · Aug 15

Rousseau, Nietzsche, Whitman, Thoreau, Flaubert... nombreux étaient les "écrivains randonneurs" pour qui la marche était une manière de libérer l'esprit et de laisser la pensée évoluer librement.⁠
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🎧 "La Nuit de la marche", 13 épisodes consacrés à la randonnée ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Qvp

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are pleased to announce that the Australian Society for French Studies are now accepting submissions for the Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize for 2025. 🏆 Find out more: bit.ly/JH-AJFS-Prize @sfhs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @profnatedwards.bsky.social

A red journal cover with white and black short lines of different lengths with the journal title, 'Australian Journal of French Studies' written in white serif text on a purple and red metallic striped background, with the journal synopsis, 'Devoted to French and Francophone literature, culture and society' written in white serif text to the right.

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · Aug 11

We're hiring - Teaching Fellow in Ancient Greek History! Please see below for details of a half-time post, starting as soon as possible in September, ending 31 August 2026, covering for temporary staff absences. Deadline for applications: 22 August.

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · Aug 11

First sighting of my book out in physical form. It has mass!

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Aug 7

Helllllo @rhyskamjones.bsky.social !!!

Welsh Nationalism in imperial Britain: 1707-1819 - a book cover!

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Aug 6

😂 this thread is one of Bluesky’s highest moments

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Aug 4

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Aug 6

My fav so far

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Exhibit S - seating for one in 17th-century French literature

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Aug 6

😂 this is a great thread!

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

8/ Jennifer Rushworth doi.org/10.1093/fmls... #Dante #GeorgeEliot

Reading Dante with George Eliot and Co.

Abstract. This short article approaches intertextuality as a network, as a form of ‘reading with’ and in company which is inevitably complex, mediated and

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

7/ Rolls & Collins-Gearing doi.org/10.1093/fmls...

Imperfect Seclusion: Critiquing Networks and Networking Critique

Abstract. This article is an apologia for an interdisciplinary, networked approach to critique that leverages the difference between disciplines, and of di

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

6/ Alice Loda doi.org/10.1093/fmls... #ItalianAustralian

Entanglements: Emplaced, Transnational and Transcultural Trajectories in Life-Writing by Italian-Australian Women

Abstract. In this study, I explore how engaging with autobiographical writings by Italian-Australian women has allowed me to reflect on my own emplaced, tr

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

5/ Clara Sitbon #Island #Corsica doi.org/10.1093/fmls...

Decentring Through Islands: Archipelagic Approaches to Multilingual Crime Fiction

ABSTRACT. Building on previous work on Corsican crime fiction, this contribution highlights the island as a pivotal object of inquiry, arguing that isolati

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

4/ Gosetti, Gibbard, Rolls #TranslationNation #Translation #Networks doi.org/10.1093/fmls...

Translation Nation: Literary Translation as Cultural Mediation in Australia

Abstract. This article outlines the conceptual foundation of our new collaborative project, which uncovers the overlooked role of French literary translati

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

3/ @dianagbarnes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/fmls...

Madame de Sévigné’s Letters and the Formation of Elite Community

Abstract. This article concerns the role played by letters written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sévigné (1626–96) to her daughter Francoise-Margu

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

2/ Giulia Torello-
Hill academic.oup.com/fmls/advance...

Epistolary Networks: Elite Women As Cultural Agents In Early Sixteenth-Century Italy

Abstract. This article examines the role of elite women’s networks in the early dissemination of the Spanish chivalric romances Tirant lo Blanc (1490) and

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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · Jul 29

1/ Check out our “Talking Point”-Intro: Networks and Transnational Communities of Letters: How Can Literary Studies Reclaim the ‘Network Turn’? url: academic.oup.com/fmls/article...

Networks and Transnational Communities of Letters: How Can Literary Studies Reclaim the ‘Network Turn’?

In recent years, scholars in Literary Studies have increasingly been encouraged to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and engage with what has been termed

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