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Not a quick read, but a very enriching one. Mabanckou will always be known primarily as a literary writer, but he’s done a good job as a Francophone African literature professor here and I would happily put this on a course syllabus #africanliterature #darllen #books

Great to see the inaugural speeches of two professors BristolItalian Ruth Glynn and Catherine O’Rawe have been at rank for years but Bristol SML honoured them as part of this nice series reintroduced post-Covid. Derek Duncan of St Andrews was a great respondent #italianistica

This looks like one to pre-order Routledge Literature all right! I'm very pleased with Chapter 8 by Prof Natalie Edwards but each of the seventeen chapters looks interesting bloomsbury.com/us/life-writin…

Gone 47 years today. Many memories have I not. Perhaps that's why I am so fascinated by how memories are crafted.

Ben Okri's poetry reading Bristol Poetry Institute was beautiful, including his aborted attempt to read "my mother is sleeping". I would likely "become a child again" if I tried to read something about my late parents again in public, too. #africanwriter #poetry Bristol SML

When nerdy French literature academic couple's text messages and autocorrect meet, and things go quite wrong! Congratulations to both writers though! " That Daoud won the Gosport, btw. And Faye got the Renaudot " #africanliterature #Goncourt2024 #renaudot2024 #daoudforthegosport

Great event for a great book.

This smacks of appalling short term thinking and sets a worrying trend. Fight the Closure of Languages at the University of Wollongong - Sign the Petition! chng.it/NndjWtc89T via Change.org UK

Delighted to be at the SFPS conference again. Watching Jennifer Yee 👁️ @jenwhy.bsky.social giving a brilliant expansive keynote on colonial French literature, endings and mixophobie/a #sfps2024

Say what you will about the literary quality of Faiza Guene’s work, her cutting humour still gets me. “Les stars montantes de l’élégance sans chaussettes « ! I deal with that every day here in Cardiff #literature #humour #frenchliterature #cardiffborn

Weberfest uber alles. Great to be reunited with friends and colleagues from Northwestern University and to celebrate the 35th and final anniversary of the Paris Program in Critical Theory of Samuel Weber which we enjoyed being part of 20 years ago! #northwesternuniversity #paris

Our call for articles on ‘Francophone Perspectives on New and Radical Forms of Care’ is now live on Francofil! Prof Natalie Edwards and I are looking forward to reading your proposals!

Special Issue of a/b Auto/Biography Studies available: Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives, edited by Prof Natalie Edwards , moi, Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas, and Shannon Sandford, fruit of a conference we ran a mere three years ago tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/cur…

The Introduction to our Australian Research Council funded Special Issue of a/b Auto/Biography Studies, "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives" is FREE access. Take a peak tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Australian Research Council Prof Natalie Edwards Shannon Sandford Kate Douglas

Sad news. “Camminando senza chiedersi perché” #benvegnu

Cardiff has gone from a VC in the modern languages to one with a history of damaging the subject in her previous post in NZ and who's now proposing cutting them altogether here. Please sign the petition

Got to see a reading and talk by author Caryl Phillips, who has inspired my academic work in many ways. Good to see Bristol Uni's Caribbean Studies Studio up and running too #afropean #literature

Very pleased to see this book, on two major African female writers (in French) out now! #afropean #africanliterature #francophoneliterature

A chapter I know very well has now appeared in a book I want to get to know more!

One of the few times I find myself somewhat in favour of a military intervention france24.com/en/africa/2025…