Proposals welcome! 2019 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies @AuFrenchStudies @french_studies
Peter Lang Oxford is delighted to announce the 2019 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies. Proposals are invited from early career scholars in French Studies for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. There is the potential for multiple winners in different subfields, each of whom will receive a contract … Continue reading
Invitation for proposals: Cultural History and Literary Imagination book series
New proposals are welcome for the book series Cultural History and Literary Imagination Series Editors: Christian J. Emden (Rice University) and David Midgley (University of Cambridge) This series promotes critical inquiry into the relationship between the literary imagination and its cultural, intellectual or political contexts. The series encourages the investigation of the role of the … Continue reading
New releases on Peter Lang Open @KUnlatched
We are pleased to announce the release of three new titles through our partnership with Knowledge Unlatched. All titles are available for free download from the Peter Lang website through the links below: Mothers on Mothers: Maternal Readings of Popular Television, by Rebecca Feasey La memoria transgeneracional: Presencia y persistencia de la guerra … Continue reading
Unbridling the Western Film Auteur book launch
Is the Western a vehicle for expressing complex ideas of national and transnational identity? Unbridling the Western Film Auteur, which undertakes the task of answering this question, was officially launched last Friday. In attendance were both editors, Emma Hamilton and Alistair Rolls. The book was launched at the Newcastle City Campus (NewSpace), Australia, by Associate Professor Jo May, a … Continue reading
Book launch: Unbridling the Western Film Auteur
The English Language and Foundation Studies Centre will be launching two new books by ELFSC staff. Among them is Unbridling the Western Film Auteur, edited by Emma Hamilton and Alistair Rolls. The book renders a complex portrait of the Western auteur by considering the genre in a transnational context. It proposes that narrow views of auteurism should … Continue reading
Peter Lang at the Society for French Studies Annual Conference
Peter Lang is delighted to be attending the Society for French Studies Annual Conference on 2-4 July at University College Cork. Senior Commissioning Editor Laurel Plapp (l.plapp@peterlang.com) will be attending and welcoming visitors to our bookstand. We will be featuring titles from across our French programme, including recent volumes from our newly re-launched series Modern … Continue reading
Series re-launch: Modern French Identities
Peter Lang Oxford is pleased to announce the re-launch of the Modern French Identities series under the editorship of Jean Khalfa. We thank Peter Collier for an amazing 20 years as the editor of the series, which has now reached 127 volumes! Modern French Identities Series Editor Dr Jean Khalfa, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, Trinity College, … Continue reading
Book launch: Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing, edited by Petra M. Bagley, Francesca Calamita and Kathryn Robson, will be launched at the University of Nottingham on Friday 26 January 2018 at 9.30am. The launch is part of the Hungry for Words workshop being held at Nottingham 25-26 January. For more information, please … Continue reading
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity published
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present day. This cross-cultural volume explores the fictional portrayal of these self-destructive yet arguably self-empowering behaviours in contemporary … Continue reading
French Feminisms 1975 and After published
This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and textuality, Hélène Cixous and others … Continue reading
