French Studies Starter Pack
Bringing together scholars in French literature, history, visual culture and beyond
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@rmesch.bsky.social
@hdiamond.bsky.social
Historian of France & 2WW, professor in French History at Cardiff University, my new book ‘Josephine Baker’s Secret War’ will be out with Yale University Press in spring 2025
@ddfccollective.bsky.social
A collective of scholars, educators, and learners in French & Francophone Studies who --through community and mutual aid-- work to challenge oppression in all its forms. Our mission: https://ddfccollective.weebly.com/our-mission.htm
@sophiejmaddison.bsky.social
Teaching Associate in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Sheffield. Researching Franco-Italian cultural connections in times of war, natural disaster, and urban regeneration. Writing a book on Matilde Serao and Emile Zola.
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social
Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
@rymontgomery.bsky.social
PhD researching Francophone trans* and queer visual cultures • PG Rep @asmcf.bsky.social • they/iel
@lillianfontaine.bsky.social
Early Career Fellow @EdinburghUni | DPhil in French at Oxford @ox.ac.uk | Originally from Sydney, Aus l Postcolonial francophone lit, spectrality, intertextuality. Also dogs. www.ed.ac.uk/profile/lillian-fontaine
@ninakushner.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth-century France, of sex and gender. Associate Professor at Clark University. Lover of all things winter, baking, and Paris. Inveterate reader. Mother to two teens, human to two dogs, and spouse to my husband.
@kelliegiordano.bsky.social
French PhD Candidate at Boston University. Dix-neuviémiste-in-training researching eating disorders in nineteenth-century French literature. Certified silly goose.
@benbgdalton.bsky.social
Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
@auphf.bsky.social
Championing French & francophone teaching and research in the UK & Ireland. Open to all in HE French. Previously the Association of University Professors and Heads of French
@antoniaalksnis.bsky.social
Political theory PhD candidate, UC Berkeley polisci | Rousseau & XVIIIe siècle BA University of Toronto
@azzab.bsky.social
Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
@ashleyscottharris.bsky.social
French Studies, Trinity College Dublin Research: contemporary French authorship (écrivain médiatique), gender, banlieues, visual culture & sociological approaches.
@micahtrue.bsky.social
Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at U of Alberta • Early modern New France and France (literature, history, theatre) • Translator/translation studies • Zags hoops • books • academic life. *Coming in 2025: The Jesuit Relations: A Biography*
@zooeyziller.bsky.social
writer phd in french at cambridge on ontological multiplicity & the phenomenological aesthetics of desire, mourning & melancholia in nerval, proust, & duras
@jlfripp.bsky.social
Birthright Citizen. Assoc. Prof TCU, author of Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France. Now working on aging and older women! I have 3 cats. Views are my own (or my cats’). Living every week like it’s shark week.
@davidhoustonjones.bsky.social
Cultist, academic, homebrewer. Beckett, art history & visual culture, forensics, visual medical humanities. Care, healthcare evidence, visual worlds. Installation art. University of Exeter. Author, Visual Culture & the Forensic. https://shorturl.at/oeLZp
@jpdaughton.bsky.social
Writer, historian, teacher, husband, cat owner, thrower of pots. Author of In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (WW Norton).
@profpeabs.bsky.social
historian, mom, wyf, nerd, admirer of finely wrought crafts, collage artist, and cheerleader of students and friends
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historian- Memory scholar- Research Prof. SOAS University of London. Sankofa. Yoga practitioner, accidental gardener & sea lover. Ubuntu. Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@addressingart.bsky.social
Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
@ebrandom.bsky.social
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
@angeliquearistondo.bsky.social
assistant professor at University College Dublin (UCD). gender violence in French and Francophone history, literature and cultures. Writing a book on cultural responses to intimate violence during WWI; current research on 20C Senegal.
@eintellection.bsky.social
Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
@mbavaria.bsky.social
Lecturer at AUP, Phd candidate NYU History and IFS (France, Fr Caribbean, race, colonialism, citizenship) and journalist (k-12 edu). Philly/Brooklyn/Paris. Columbia Journalism alum
@richardlegay.bsky.social
Historian interested in media, memory & culture, and currently working on Franco-German memory politics. Lecturer in French Studies @unigoettingen.bsky.social Council member @IAMHIST.bsky.social Associated researcher @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social (DE)
@hnmalcolm.bsky.social
PhD in History from IUBloomington on archival labor and the French Revolution. Works for American Historical Review. Knitter, cyclist, cat bed, and ardent fountain pen enthusiast. www.hannahnmalcolm.com Lumbee. they/them
@gabrielkunst.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of French at Athabasca University working on autism, literature & the medical humanities • Auteur chez Poètes de brousse • Anxious singer-songwriter • Autiste (he/him•il/lui)
@wadehistory.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Leiden | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
@libripotens.bsky.social
Professor of translation studies at the University of Geneva and academic translator. Translator history from below. Book due out end 2024: Professional Translators in 19th-c France. Now working on an industry guide for aspiring book translators.
@frenchhistto.bsky.social
French History Seminar / Séminaire d'Histoire de France, Toronto, Canada (profile images: http://Europeana.eu) Posts by @SchotteMargaret
@amaleenadamle.bsky.social
Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
@sfps.bsky.social
The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies promotes research on the Francophone world. Links & RTs ≠ endorsements.
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
@amymcturkstarkie.bsky.social
Big fan of nineteenth-century France. I also like writing about women who make art.
@christiesmbc.bsky.social
Literature enthusiast, Academic in French Studies, Solo Mum By Choice, 18th and 19th century France scholar, Medical Humanities, Narrative Reproductive Medicine, 21st century life writing around donor conception
@jonathanervine.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in French at Bangor University. Author of 'Humour in Contemporary France' and publications about comedy, cinema and sport in France. From Scotland and powered by porridge.
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
@nimishabarton.bsky.social
Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Lecturer at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
@heatherhmw.bsky.social
Literature in French and Welsh/Cymraeg, travel writing, translation studies, comparative literature, minority studies, nineteenth century, Brittany/Breizh, Society of Dix-neuviémistes
@dvarelafdez.bsky.social
Docteur en Histoire | ATER en Langue et Civilisation de l'Espagne contemporaine (@sorbonne-universite.fr) Histoire de l'hispanisme et circulation des idées réactionnaires (Espagne-France-Amériques)
@sjvigneault.bsky.social
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950) Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH) https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
@jessicatanner.bsky.social
Associate Prof., UNC-CH. 19th-c French lit, novels, theory, history of sex and sexuality, weather and climate. Minnesotan in NC. First gen. Herder of aged cat. Book: SEX WORK, TEXT WORK (Northwestern UP, 2023).
@ilcs.bsky.social
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/ Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
@jwsfh.bsky.social
JWSFH is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring scholarship n France & the francophone world. The journal is published once annually in an open-access, online format. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/
@mlnjournal.bsky.social
f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Five annual issues: Italian, Hispanic, German, French, and Comparative Literature MLNJournal@jh.edu
@marnikessler.bsky.social
Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
@lukeosullivan.bsky.social
Writing about freedom, uncertainty, and precarity in early modern France. https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-luke-osullivan
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out soon "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia
@drjannmatlock.bsky.social
Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
@olivier-ritz.bsky.social
Maître de conférences en littérature française Université Paris Cité Histoire littéraire de la Révolution française Imaginaires de la Révolution de 1789 à nos jours Literary History of the French Revolution Imagining the Revolution (1789 to Present)
@goodmanjess.bsky.social
Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 3yo & 6yo. Views my own.
@chcarroll.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
@mtthboisdron.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
@mpbreen21.bsky.social
Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
@uksdn.bsky.social
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) offers a lively forum for the dissemination of research on French and Francophone studies in the long 19th century.
@francescaberry.bsky.social
Art Historian| Associate Professor 19-20C French Art| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍 https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
@mariascott.bsky.social
Dubliner in SW England. Commuter. Often found at weekends on strangers' doorsteps, asking questions. Otherwise, head regularly found in nineteenth-century France.
@anneoneilhenry.bsky.social
Associate Prof of French & Francophone Studies @Georgetown; Works on 19thC pop culture. Current MoCo resident; from Walla Walla. Opinions my own.
@ilotem.bsky.social
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
@plso.bsky.social
| Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com |
@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
@pierresalmon.bsky.social
MCF en histoire contemporaine (ENS-PSL - IHMC) Guerre d'Espagne (1936-1939), trafic d'armes, histoire transnationale Compte personnel
@profstevenwilson.bsky.social
Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/steven-wilson | All views my own.
@drjoeford.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in French Studies @ilcs.bsky.social | literature, culture and post/colonialism, comparative/world literature, Algerian culture/history | multilingualism and environments 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@pernilleblues.bsky.social
Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
@paulecohen.bsky.social
Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. A stranger in a strange century. https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
@ryanpilcher.bsky.social
Lecturer at U of Pittsburgh. French and Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, C19 researcher, feminist, queer, coffee addict.
@srocher.bsky.social
French and Global 19C prof. Accessories to Modernity and Behind the Seams. Dogs know best.
@cherylperfume.bsky.social
Academic perfumista. Reader, writer, professor, adult child of the linguistic turn. Not necessarily in that order. I am my dog’s human. Author of Pefume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France.
@kyliesago.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of French, San Diego State University. Web Editor, H-France Forum. Interested in the histories and legacies of empire. Writing a book on literary adaptation and racial formation.
@michaellucey.bsky.social
Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
@jenwhy.bsky.social
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
@ayates.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
@cofo.bsky.social
Cultural history of the French 19th century @ Austin College. Book review editor @ NCFS. “Culture of War” now out in paperback https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-war-9781837644131
@bmrosenstein.bsky.social
PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
@sfhs.bsky.social
https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
@thesiecle.com
A history podcast by @dhmontgomery.com covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Annotated transcripts at thesiecle.com!
@julietbellow.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Art History at American University; author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2013) and Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2025).
@annabel-l-kim.bsky.social
French prof at Harvard // UNBECOMING LANGUAGE (OSUP 2018) // CACAPHONIES (Minn 2022) // dua lipa stan & miley cyrus enthusiast // VERY into cats // vegan climate griever
@frenchstudies.bsky.social
Society for scholars and students of French in higher education https://www.sfs.ac.uk
@carolinesequin.bsky.social
Historian of France | race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2024). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2
@jenniferheuer.bsky.social
Historian, especially of France, gender, revolution, colonialism, and much else. Co-editor of French Historical Studies (send good articles our way!) Low-key hiker and biker, mystery novel reader, traveler.
@playingcleo.bsky.social
Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor at the University of Alabama. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered.
@hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France coming soon from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️
@jdegroat.bsky.social
historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
@profchrisadams.bsky.social
Historian of early modern and eighteenth-century France who sees historical parallels everywhere. Interested in fashion, gender, politics, food. And cat photos.
@kringelberg.bsky.social
they/them, Art Historian I care a lot (too much?) Gay Race Communist, I guess
@aiross.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
@micheleplott.bsky.social
Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
@barthesstudies.bsky.social
An open-access, independent, peer-reviewed journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes. The journal doesn’t have personal pronouns but the person posting here does: he/him. https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes
@eichnercarolyn.bsky.social
Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune; names.
@rpanchasi.bsky.social
assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france/empire/culture; nuclear weapons & power; pop music & the end of the world; founding host-new books in french studies; co-editor, journal of the WSFH; brown; settler; NOT my employer roxannepanchasi.com
@cnrs.fr
Organisme public 🇫🇷 de recherche pluridisciplinaire, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique c'est 33 000 personnes qui font avancer la connaissance. #HelloESR
@1789jam.bsky.social
French/Global History, 1500-1850 at #Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, Vote Blue...& Shoes! User #396,109 :) Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City. Immune compromised, still wear a mask. Where's the #skiing community