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Opening the Future for Open Access: New Article in ‘Research Information’

An article co-authored by Anthony Cond, CEO of Liverpool University Press was published recently in leading industry magazine, 'Research Information'. With the recent awareness of the benefits of Open Access publications being showcased throughout #OpenAccessWeek2021, the article discusses some of the more recent developments in OA legislation, considering its impact on the academic publishing industry going forward.

Literature, Modern Languages

An interview with Maria Kathryn Tomlinson, author of ‘From Menstruation to the Menopause’

To celebrate the publication and upcoming book launch of her new book, Dr. Tomlinson was interviewed by fellow LUP author, Dr. Wimbush to discuss the novel and the ways in which it handles representations of menstruation, childbirth and the menopause in women's writing in French.

History, Literature, postcolonial studies

Sex, Sea and Self: Jacqueline Couti talks to Katharine Shilcutt for Rice University

This article explores the 'Sex, Sea and Self''s ideas in further depth, examining Couti's thoughts on selfhood, French Caribbean literature and the sexualisation of black female bodies.

Literature, Modern Languages, Political History, postcolonial studies

Female Francophone Aesthetics of Exile: In discussion with Antonia Wimbush

Author Antonia Wimbush offers an insight into issues of belonging, geographical mobility and the self in contemporary autofictional literature.

Journals, Modern Languages, News

Introducing “Slavic Studies Goes Public – Who? What? Why? Where? When?”: a Modern Languages Open Special Collection

This month we launch a special collection in Slavic Studies at Modern Languages Open, comprising of six short essays and three critical-creative pieces. Victoria Donovan, James Rann, and Darya Tsymbalyuk, who guest edited the collection, explain how it came about and what it aims to achieve. The collection emerges from the British Academy-funded workshop “Slavic … Continue reading