Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition News
Peter Lang Oxford is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies in the following categories:
Joint Winners in Nineteenth Century
Giada Alessandroni
Amongst Women:
Literary Representations of Female Homosociality in Belle Epoque France, 1880–1914
to be published in French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in 2020
Mathew Rickard
Against the Grain:
The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature
to be published in Romanticism and after in France in 2021
Winner in Twentieth/Twenty-First Century
Natalie Berkman
The OuLiPo’s Mathematical Project (1960–2014)
to be published in Modern French Identities in 2021
Winner in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Polly Galis
Frank French Feminism:
Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan
to be published in Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing in 2020
Winner in Media and Culture
Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil
‘Nous bâtirons un monde nouveau’:
Punk Polemics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Life in Metropolitan France
to be published in European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics in 2022
We congratulate our winners!
We are also pleased to have some fabulous runners-up this year:
Elizabeth Benjamin, Existential Comics: Bande dessinée and the Art of Ethics, Runner-up in Media and Culture
Sandra Daroczi, Readerly Dialogues in Monique Wittig’s Fiction, Runner-up in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Pauline Eaton, The Representation of Motherhood in the Novels of Marie Ndiaye, Runner-up in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Theano Petrou, Form and Love in the Poetry of Jacques Roubaud, Runner-up in Twentieth/Twenty-First Century
Thank you to our distinguished editorial board and to all those who took part in the competition.
The Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition is an annual competition in selected fields. The 2020 competition for German Studies in America has already begun inviting proposals, due on 15 January 2020. Please read more about it here.
For more information on our Young Scholars Competitions, please contact Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, UK. E-mail: l.plapp@peterlang.com. Tel: +44 (0) 1865 514160.
Peter Lang Releases New OA Books in Partnership with Knowledge Unlatched
As part of its commitment to supporting the widest possible dissemination of knowledge, Peter Lang participates in the program of the library crowd-sourcing platform Knowledge Unlatched (KU). Books awarded funding are made available Open Access under a CC-BY license without additional charge to the authors.
Titles released under our partnership with KU include
Re/assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager: Narratives from the Field(s), edited by Annelies Kamp and Majella McSharry
Mothers on Mothers: Maternal Readings of Popular Television, by Rebecca Feasey
La memoria transgeneracional: Presencia y persistencia de la guerra civil en la narrativa española contemporánea, by Maura Rossi
De la genèse de la langue à Internet : Variations dans les formes, les modalités et les langues en contact, edited by Michael Abecassis and Gudrun Ledegen
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Open Access Publications from Peter Lang
Peter Lang is pleased to have an active open access publishing programme. All books are available for free download from the Open Access Publications page on our website and from OAPEN. Recent volumes include The Governance of Educational Welfare Markets and From Orientalism to Cultural Capital. All publications are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial, No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence.
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