Today is pub day for 'Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction'! Available online from Bloomsbury here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/criminal-.... So many people had a hand in bringing this book into being, and I'm so very proud of it.

🎙️ New episode! Positionalities – Women in French Podcast “Teaching French Through a Gender-Just Lens” Dr Gemma King, Dr Dominique Carlini Versini @dcarliniversini.bsky.social & Dr Clara Sitbon share insights on inclusive French teaching. Hosted by Dr Beth Kearney @besskearney.bsky.social !

Delighted to share the CfP for the International Crime Genre Research Network's 2026 conference! Our theme is 'Retrospection, Futurity, Reinvention' and the conference will be held at @ucddublin.bsky.social in June next year! More information on our new website: icgrnetwork.com

Delighted to share the webpage for "Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women" (Nov '25) ed. by Julie Rodgers, Polly Galis & me! Feat. chapters on Virginie Despentes, Coralie Fargeat, Colette, Ananda Devi, Marianne in the French imaginary, & more! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

*stares in precariously employed Humanities ECR desperate to get a job in her home country while her discipline collapses around her for lack of investment*

Thrilled to have received the very first ECR Bourse from ADEFFI! I'll be heading on a long-awaited research trip to the Quais du polar festival in Lyon in April. Un grand merci to everyone at @adeffi.bsky.social & to the external panel who awarded me this prize 💛 any tips for Lyon, je suis preneuse!