Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+). Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess. ➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies @ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social

Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm

Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

New publication: ‘Colonial epidemiology: The poetics and politics of incommunicability in Sartre’s Typhus (1944)’, in Journal of Romance Studies special issue Reading bodies: Narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s-1960s & beyond) liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

New publication: ‘Colonial epidemiology: The poetics and politics of incommunicability in Sartre’s Typhus (1944)’, in Journal of Romance Studies special issue Reading bodies: Narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s-1960s & beyond) liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Honoured, humbled and slightly daunted to have been elected President of @asmcf.bsky.social at the Canterbury conference (and to have delivered a keynote…). Thanks to members for your confidence. To all in French studies, including PGs and ECRs: come and join us!

Poppy, 14, loving summer nights on the beach

Rice University is seeking to appoint a ✅Tenure-track ✅Assistant or Associate Prof of #MedicalHumanities 💻Specializing in narrative and/or digital humanities approaches to medicine & health in the 20th-21st centuries Apply by 31 Oct to work with this amazing group! apply.interfolio.com/172836

Terrific first visit to Bern. Hope to have many opportunities to return to this beautiful, fascinating city🇨🇭

The glorious, breathtaking Swiss Alps. Could stay here forever!

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📢 Introducing LUP Open Languages – a Subscribe to Open initiative supporting access to research in languages, literatures & cultures. From French & Catalan to Hispanic & Francophone studies, explore journals with archives dating back to 1923. 🔗 bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang #SubscribeToOpen #LUPOpenLanguages

Was pleased to represent @ucflangs.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk today in conversation with Matt Frei about the crisis for languages & their importance for global Britain, following the @hepi-news.bsky.social report by Megan Bowler. Listen at c.10.50am: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

New HEPI report calls for urgent action on revitalising language learning - @ucflangs.bsky.social welcomes the release of a new HEPI report, sponsored by Duolingo, thqt highlights the urgent need to support and improve the uptake of languages: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/07/31/n...

HUGE DAY My editor copies of 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' arrived!! I'm so excited for this to be out in the world (officially 7th Aug) The volume asks 'what would a neurodivergent framework for literary studies look like'?

📣Important podcast on the value of speaking other languages 👇 The conversation looks at how the languages we speak influence how we think & affect how we relate to others. It explores how multilingualism can foster social cohesion, support cognitive flexibility, & even boost economic opportunities.

Macron is right – let's revive the school French exchange to secure a future together www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

A great afternoon in Westminster thanks to the APPG ML. We presented our collective response to the Curriculum & Assessment Review: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/06/23/c... Was pleased to be there to represent @ucflangs.bsky.social with @wendya-b.bsky.social & @marcecazzoli.bsky.social

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: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

Over the moon to share that Dr Fanny Chabrol and I have been awarded a Society for French Studies Visiting International Fellowship to enable Fanny to join us in Lancaster University School of Global Affairs for a period of collaborative research in 2026!

The role of a PhD supervisor…

My favourite day of the academic year. Proud of all our graduating students and what they’ve achieved.

Assisted Lab is hiring - please share widely! We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position (100%) as part of the ERC/SERI Assisted Lab team at University of St. Gallen, starting September 2025. More information here 👇 jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stell...

Last week I in Paris for the conference: Futures of the Hospital From the Global South (17-20 June), led by Fanny Chabrol at Université Paris Cité and with colleagues from HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa at Cape Town University.

Fiona Barclay considers the longstanding deficit in the social value associated with languages, true not just of Scotland, but across the UK. She proposes 3 avenues for improving public perceptions of languages www.lspjournal.com/post/languag... @cforsdick.bsky.social

@themhra.bsky.social is hiring another Policy Postdoctoral Researcher 🎉 This is an amazing opportunity for ECAs to gain policy experience, and I couldn’t recommend working with @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social more highly! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/mvzce4nt

Love spending time pausing and reflecting in the peace of the beautiful walled garden near where I live. The annual sculpture exhibition is always a treat andculture.org.uk/whats-on/for...

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

Today, I am working from a municipal library 📚. First impressions: it’s much more comfortable than a university one…

Start thinking about health and happiness for your SDN conference proposal for 2026...

Sea air, sun and the sound of crashing waves to round off a busy day 🌊 🌅

Sharing @profstevenwilson.bsky.social’s praise of the Lancaster NNMHR Congress convenors for running “Tongues” online - I am very excited to be tuning into his fantastic keynote from Schipol 😊

Looking forward to the #NNMHR conference on ‘Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers’ beginning tomorrow. It’s a daunting honour to have been asked to give one of the keynotes. nnmh.org.uk/tongues/

How can medical humanities expertise shape strategy, policy, and foresight across health and care systems? Join the conversation at 'Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times' 🔗 www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/scenar...

Welcome news: the UK is to rejoin the #Erasmus+ programme

Coastal path at 8am. Beach at 8pm. The sun hasn’t stopped shining all day 🌅☀️🕶️

Looking forward to this conference next week and honoured to be one of the keynotes

📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.

📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.

We are pleased to announce that the 2025-26 Visiting International Fellowship has been awarded to Dr Fanny Chabrol (Université Paris Cité), and Dr Benjamin Dalton (Lancaster University), the host applicant. Many congratulations to them and thanks to all those who submitted an application!

Stephen Forcer shares this open letter as AUPHF+ President to express our grave concern regarding the proposed cuts to Modern Languages at Cardiff University and to other subjects: secure.toolkitfiles.co.uk/clients/3412...

Delighted that my book BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives is now published with @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bumidom... Excited to receive the hard copies!

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

'Making Languages Research Accessible to Policymakers' Barbara Burns talks to Olivia (Liv) Glaze, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoc Researcher, and her mentors Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick, about the project linked to the 'Languages and Policy' report. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04...

New report from @britishacademy.bsky.social on language skills & capabilities in the UK research base Multilingual capabilities are integral to research excellence, impact and integrity www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social