The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies is pleased to acknowledge the continued generous support of Liverpool University Press for this year’s annual conference.
LUP publishes a wide range of cutting-edge research in Francophone studies. The below titles and series will be of particular interest to SFPS members.
New and Upcoming in the Francophone Postcolonial Studies series:
Francophone Postcolonial Studies publishes research that will help to set new research agendas across the entire field.
Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World
From Nostalgia to ResistanceEdited by Sarah Arens, Nicola Frith, Jonathan Lewis, and Rebekah Vince
A volume compiled in tribute to Professor Kate Marsh, engaging with her scholarship on French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives.
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Francophone Oceania Today
Literature, Visual Arts, Music, and Cinema
Edited by Michelle Royer, Nathalie Ségeral,
and Léa Vuong
A collection of essays fostering interdisciplinary dialogues and critical conversation between scholarly disciplines, French- and English-speaking academics, and contributors from different regions, bridging literature, cinema, music, and visual arts.
Forthcoming in 2025
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere
Edited by Nicki Hitchcott and Nsah Mala
Points to the ways in which francophone writers, activists and visual artists offer alternative worldviews and reflect on how humanity might – or might not – move towards a sustainable future for the Earth.
New in French and Francophone Studies Journals:
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new publishing partnership with the Society for French Studies, to publish the journals French Studies and French Studies Bulletin from 2025.
The Society for French Studies is the oldest and largest association in the UK and Ireland. French Studies, the society’s internationally renowned journal, has appeared continuously since 1946.
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Francosphères
Sponsored by the Winthrop King Institute from 2026.
Volume 13.1 is a special issue which asks questions of land and landscape in the context of the colonial and postcolonial francospheres, asking what the specificities of these contexts might bring to the wider body of works investigating landscapes globally.
Contemporary French Civilization
Devoted to all aspects of civilization and cultural studies in France and the Francophone world.
Volume 49.3 includes articles which explore tensions between Africanity and Arabness in the Maghreb; how Abdellah Taïa uses illiteracy as a poetic tool for postcolonial critique; and Jacques Martin’s overlooked French television satire of the 1960s and 1970s.
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CFC Intersections
Devoted to intersectionality in French and Francophone studies.
Volume 3 is a special issue titled ‘Decolonizing Literature in French and the question of the White writer’. It features critical discussions on Whiteness in contemporary French literature, and addresses the complexities of race, identity, and postcolonial legacies.
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