Journals, Modern Languages

Winner of 11th Annual Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award 2022

Contemporary French Civilization (CFC), published by Liverpool University Press, is pleased to announce the results of our 11th Annual Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award competition for the best conference paper submitted by a junior colleague in the field of contemporary French and Francophone civilization and cultural studies. 

Modern Languages

Q&A With Éamon Ó Cofaigh, author of A Vehicle for Change

Our latest publication in the Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series, A Vehicle for Change, looks at popular representations of the automobile in 20th-Century France. Its author, Éamon Ó Cofaigh, takes a seat for an exclusive Q&A for the LUP blog.

Modern Languages

Q&A with Lisa Algazi Marcus, author of Mother’s Milk and Male Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative 

The latest in our Q&A series sees Dr Lisa Algazi Marcus talk about her new monograph, 'Mother’s Milk and Male Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative', discussing the role of breastfeeding in nineteenth-century France and its representations in literature of the period.

Literature, Modern Languages, Poetry

Q&A With Nikolaj Lübecker: Author of Twenty-First-Century Symbolism

In an exclusive Q&A for Liverpool University Press, Lübecker chats to us about his latest book, reading nineteenth-century French poetry with a philosophical corpus, as well as his concerns for the visual.

Journals, Modern Languages

Call for Papers: Contemporary French Civilization Special Issue – The Broken Mirror: Christine and the Queens and Global Frenchness

Call for Papers: Contemporary French Civilisation Special Issue - The Broken Mirror: Christine and the Queens and Global Frenchness.