Dr Kate Foster

Check out my article on serial surreal mannequins! Available ahead of print with @FrenchStudies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/fs…

Join us online at 5pm BST today for the launch of The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture! Details and joining instructions o Eventbrite

If you’re interested in #AI #automation #LLMs, self-driving cars, automated checkouts and all that jazz, have a look at this, edited by me and Molly Crozier! routledge.com/The-Human-and-…

A reminder that the deadline for submissions for next year's SFS conference in Leicester is next Friday 19 September 👇🔔

@french_studies The CFP is open until this Friday - we’re looking forward to reading your submissions!

We are pleased to announce the CFP for next year's annual conference which will take place at the University of Leicester. The deadline for submissions is 19 September 2025. For more information see the link below: sfs.ac.uk/conferences/20…

Check out my article on serial surreal mannequins! Available ahead of print with @FrenchStudies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/fs…

An amazing time was had (as always) at #SFSBristol @french_studies! As well as collecting my R Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize, I got to see the fameux hot air balloons and sample some culture – scrumpy included 🎈

Thank you to SFS @french_studies for a fantastic conference at @BristolUni! Many thanks to @profnatedwards, Kate Foster, @TobiasLDBarn, and all those who helped organise. Great to catch up with so many people and meet new PhDs! My view for three days #SFSBristol

If you're attending #SFSBristol, chat to Sarah about publishing your work in our French and Francophone Studies series! 📚 The series emphasises ways in which French and francophone communities across the world are evolving in the 21st century. More info: uwp.co.uk/series/categor…

Jane Gilbert delivers the Simon Gaunt Memorial Lecture on ‘blindness as form’ in medieval French literature, closing our annual conference in Bristol and three fantastic days of intellectual exchange #SFSBristol

So pleased to be hosting @french_studies conference in @BristolSML this year! Looking forward to asserting the value, contribution and importance of research in #frenchstudies #sfsbristol

I'm in Bristol for the annual conference of the Society of @french_studies. Looking forward to participating in a panel about sporting identities from the 19th century to the present. #SFSBristol

Great to be at #SFSbristol, perfect timing for Wallace & Gromit enjoyers too with these lads popping up all over the city today!

Day two of our annual conference begins with another plenary lecture by Maurice Samuels on the coup of 1851, Louis-Napoléon and literature in the age of tyranny #SFSBristol

@profnatedwards looking delighted to welcome delegates to the 2025 conference of the Society of French Studies at the University of Bristol! #sfsbristol @BristolCompLit @BristolUni

Bristol uni's own @shuangyi_li presenting on exophone East Asian writers in French and English and teaching me a thing or two... as usual! #SFSBristol @BristolCompLit

Our annual conference begins with a welcome from Society President Nicholas Harrison and the first plenary lecture by Nikolaj Lübecker on the idea of the ‘world brain’ in 20th-century French film and theory #SFSBristol

A full Great Hall in @BristolUni ‘s Wills Memorial Building for our second plenary which is delivered by Mame-Fatou Niang with a lecture on global French studies in our times #SFSBristol

#SFSBristol ⁦@french_studies⁩ Next up: a full house for our second plenary lecture, by ⁦@MameFatouNiang⁩!