Valentina Gosetti
@valentinagosetti.bsky.social
Academic in French and Comp Lit based in Australia. All things poetry, all things provinces, all things lesser-spoken languages of France and Italy. Views my own.
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
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New translation from French into Italian of « Cassandre à bout portant » www.edizionijoker.com/cassandra-a-... #SandraMoussempès
Hanging out where the latest Literature Nobel laureate hangs…
Details of the brutalist Thomas White Building at St John's College, @ox.ac.uk by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates #MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday
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
🔈 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.
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The deadline of 1 September is fast approaching - be sure to send your applications in!
SDN@uksdn.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 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/
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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“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 · last yr.‘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...
🚨 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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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. 🎧 "La Nuit de la marche", 13 épisodes consacrés à la randonnée ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Qvp
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
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...
One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s
Exhibit S - seating for one in 17th-century French literature
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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The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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@profnatedwards.bsky.social looking delighted to welcome delegates to the 2025 conference of the Society for French Studies at the University of Bristol #sfsbristol @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social
This is just awful (on top of the outrage of ancient history and religion and theology degrees going completely). How can you study a language at degree level without learning about the cultures, literatures and histories of that language?
Christie Margrave@christiesmbc.bsky.social · last yr.Sort of good but mostly not. They still want to close 3 languages completely. And teaching-only contracts at basic starting salary grade 6, no research-led teaching, no culture/hist/lit modules on lang degrees. No confirmation on how many T&R in MLANG to be saved. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tomorrow (19 May) at 12:45 pm BST: Join @kaszyma.bsky.social at @oxfordcct.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more: occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/on-mul...
Venez nombreux/-euses! Please do join us for this online roundtable discussion.
🎉 We’re delighted to present our new LSP series: Languages in UK Education, guest-edited by @cforsdick.bsky.social and Wendy Ayres-Bennett. The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘 📖 Read more: lspjournal.com
📣 Call for proposals 📣 We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists! More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
CFPs, EOIs & News
Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…
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Some real gems from Dr Emma Bielecki: ‘La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres' (Mallarmé, 'Brise Marine') And 'Je suis le Ténébreux, – le Veuf, – l’Inconsolé, Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la Tour abolie' (Nerval) #WorldPoetryDay2025
Je ne vous offre plus pour toutes mélodies Que des cris de révolte et des rimes hardies. Oui ! Mais en m’écoutant si vous alliez pâlir ? Si, surpris des éclats de ma verve imprudente, Vous maudissez la voix énergique et stridente Qui vous aura fait tressaillir ? #WorldPoetryDay @uksdn.bsky.social
Here are my favourite lines of 19C French-language poetry, because they make me laugh and think of the sun: 'Il fait s'évaporer les soucis vers le ciel Et remplit les cerveaux et les ruches de miel' (Baudelaire, 'Le Soleil') [Il = the sun] #WorldPoetryDay2025 @uksdn.bsky.social
