Enjoying DC as it slowly empties out, pre-holidays, to get some reading done for an upcoming project 👀

Algerian writer Mohammed Dib's seminal novel "L'Incendie" (1954) finally available in English. Translated by Chaker Mohamed Benali and Nicolas P. Taylor. Published by Editions Sédia in Algiers sedia.dz/librairie/la... #MohammedDib #Algerianliterature #literatureintranslation #translation

Flew to London, talked about football, got to meet a lot of lovely and smart people, and hear a truly impressive number of inspiring papers. Feeling very lucky today that this is what I get to do for my *job*!

Senate House is all decked out, and it's time for #SFPS25!

Happy day off from me and my current Victorian paving-stone

My former professor and one of the most brilliant thinkers out there: how I wish I was close enough to attend this!

A new step in my journey to get everyone I know to read this book because I love it so much: I translated it 😂 Coming out with GUP in April, 2026! press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh...

I set up a recurring donation here. I encourage anybody who is able to give some money to help take care of hungry folks in your region. www.capitalareafoodbank.org

weirdly and somewhat unexpectedly, the most moving moment for me each time I've published a book (one monograph, one forthcoming translation) is when it gets assigned an ISBN ? Like, all my favorite books have ISBNs!! What do you *mean* I get one too!?!

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Oh my, this is lovely: therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Finding myself in a constant cycle of being energized by my teaching and my wonderful students, yet exhausted by the news and general state of the world is... taking a lot out of me, it must be said!

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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! Keep AI out of translation!

They've lost the 9yos

Georgetown/DC friends: I'll be presenting my work on football, gender, and feminist movements in France at the G+JI research colloquium on Oct 3rd. Always happy to see friendly faces in the audience ;) genderjustice.georgetown.edu/colloquia/re...

Georgetown/DC friends: I'll be presenting my work on football, gender, and feminist movements in France at the G+JI research colloquium on Oct 3rd. Always happy to see friendly faces in the audience ;) genderjustice.georgetown.edu/colloquia/re...

You're telling me there are only 8 works tagged for Middlemarch on AO3? EIGHT?! idk what it says about me that I fully expected to find AUs where Dorothea finally gets to go to grad school (at NYU) and Will Ladislaw is a bisexual wife guy from Brooklyn who's teaching himself to play the guitar

I am one chapter away from the end of Middlemarch, and feeling anticipatorily bereft

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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

🤩Congratulations to Jennifer Boum Make on her new book "Decolonial Care" 🎉What an important and timely intervention - I can't wait to get my copy! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-pr...

idk how anyone else is dealing with the collapse of democracy etc etc, but I'm reading Middlemarch one chapter a day w my partner and then spamming them with homemade memes about whatever we just read

Maghrebi literature has lost a major figure: Tunisian Arabic-language writer Hassouna Mosbahi. Born in 1950. Studied French lit. at the Uni. of Tunis. Spent 20+ years in Munich. His work is translated into English, German & French @syracuseup.bsky.social ‪@aucpress.bsky.social @arablit.bsky.social

Me approximately 5 days after saying I was going to try not to buy too many books on this trip to Paris