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Valentina Gosetti

@valentinagosetti.bsky.social
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Academic in French and Comp Lit based in Australia. All things poetry, all things provinces, all things lesser-spoken languages of France and Italy. Views my own.

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New translation from French into Italian of « Cassandre à bout portant » www.edizionijoker.com/cassandra-a-... #SandraMoussempès
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Trieste
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Skies @ Miramare
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hanging out where the latest Literature Nobel laureate hangs…
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Andrew Ogilvy @andrewogilvy.com · 15/09/2025
Details of the brutalist Thomas White Building at St John's College, @ox.ac.uk by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates #MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday
Minimal photographic diptych showing details of the brutalist Thomas White Building at St John's College, Oxford by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.

There are watermarks with the initials AO in the middle left hand side of each photograph.
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Andrew Ogilvy @andrewogilvy.com · 15/09/2025
Inside and outside the stunning brutalist Hilda Besse Building at St Antony's College, @ox.ac.uk by John Partridge of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. Also featuring part of the Zaha Hadid Architects building at the College. #MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday
Minimal photographic diptych of an interior and exterior the brutalist Hilda Besse Building at St Antony’s College, Oxford by John Partridge of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. The right hand image also features part of the Zaha Hadid Architects building at the college and the spire of church behind that.

There are watermarks with the initials AO in both photographs.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works. Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026. 📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025 Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The deadline of 1 September is fast approaching - be sure to send your applications in!
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Publication day!! Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more 🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨
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Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819
Reframes the study of Welsh cultural revivalism, highlighting transnational and imperial contexts.
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Great piece @padrig.bsky.social
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“But the provincial, who is the true explorer, needs to experience for himself the things that will disappoint. Second-hand disappointment won’t do.”
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨 Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies. Send us your application by 1 September! More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/
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Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 15/08/2025
Rousseau, Nietzsche, Whitman, Thoreau, Flaubert... nombreux étaient les "écrivains randonneurs" pour qui la marche était une manière de libérer l'esprit et de laisser la pensée évoluer librement.⁠ ⁠ 🎧 "La Nuit de la marche", 13 épisodes consacrés à la randonnée ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/Qvp
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We are pleased to announce that the Australian Society for French Studies are now accepting submissions for the Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize for 2025. 🏆 Find out more: bit.ly/JH-AJFS-Prize @sfhs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @profnatedwards.bsky.social
A red journal cover with white and black short lines of different lengths with the journal title, 'Australian Journal of French Studies' written in white serif text on a purple and red metallic striped background, with the journal synopsis, 'Devoted to French and Francophone literature, culture and society' written in white serif text to the right.
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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We're hiring - Teaching Fellow in Ancient Greek History! Please see below for details of a half-time post, starting as soon as possible in September, ending 31 August 2026, covering for temporary staff absences. Deadline for applications: 22 August. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
First sighting of my book out in physical form. It has mass!
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
😂 this thread is one of Bluesky’s highest moments
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My fav so far
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Exhibit S - seating for one in 17th-century French literature
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
😂 this is a great thread!
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
8/ Jennifer Rushworth doi.org/10.1093/fmls... #Dante #GeorgeEliot
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Reading Dante with George Eliot and Co.
Abstract. This short article approaches intertextuality as a network, as a form of ‘reading with’ and in company which is inevitably complex, mediated and
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
7/ Rolls & Collins-Gearing doi.org/10.1093/fmls...
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Imperfect Seclusion: Critiquing Networks and Networking Critique
Abstract. This article is an apologia for an interdisciplinary, networked approach to critique that leverages the difference between disciplines, and of di
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
6/ Alice Loda doi.org/10.1093/fmls... #ItalianAustralian
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Entanglements: Emplaced, Transnational and Transcultural Trajectories in Life-Writing by Italian-Australian Women
Abstract. In this study, I explore how engaging with autobiographical writings by Italian-Australian women has allowed me to reflect on my own emplaced, tr
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
5/ Clara Sitbon #Island #Corsica doi.org/10.1093/fmls...
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Decentring Through Islands: Archipelagic Approaches to Multilingual Crime Fiction
ABSTRACT. Building on previous work on Corsican crime fiction, this contribution highlights the island as a pivotal object of inquiry, arguing that isolati
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
4/ Gosetti, Gibbard, Rolls #TranslationNation #Translation #Networks doi.org/10.1093/fmls...
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Translation Nation: Literary Translation as Cultural Mediation in Australia
Abstract. This article outlines the conceptual foundation of our new collaborative project, which uncovers the overlooked role of French literary translati
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
3/ @dianagbarnes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/fmls...
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Madame de Sévigné’s Letters and the Formation of Elite Community
Abstract. This article concerns the role played by letters written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sévigné (1626–96) to her daughter Francoise-Margu
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
2/ Giulia Torello- Hill academic.oup.com/fmls/advance...
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Epistolary Networks: Elite Women As Cultural Agents In Early Sixteenth-Century Italy
Abstract. This article examines the role of elite women’s networks in the early dissemination of the Spanish chivalric romances Tirant lo Blanc (1490) and
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
1/ Check out our “Talking Point”-Intro: Networks and Transnational Communities of Letters: How Can Literary Studies Reclaim the ‘Network Turn’? url: academic.oup.com/fmls/article...
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Networks and Transnational Communities of Letters: How Can Literary Studies Reclaim the ‘Network Turn’?
In recent years, scholars in Literary Studies have increasingly been encouraged to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and engage with what has been termed
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/07/2025
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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Chris Hogarth @octolingualman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
@profnatedwards.bsky.social looking delighted to welcome delegates to the 2025 conference of the Society for French Studies at the University of Bristol #sfsbristol @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social
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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is just awful (on top of the outrage of ancient history and religion and theology degrees going completely). How can you study a language at degree level without learning about the cultures, literatures and histories of that language?
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Congratulations !
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Tomorrow (19 May) at 12:45 pm BST: Join @kaszyma.bsky.social‬ at @oxfordcct.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more: occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/on-mul...
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy by Kasia Szymanska
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Christie Margrave @christiesmbc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Venez nombreux/-euses! Please do join us for this online roundtable discussion.
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Languages, Society and Policy @lspjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🎉 We’re delighted to present our new LSP series: Languages in UK Education, guest-edited by @cforsdick.bsky.social and Wendy Ayres-Bennett. The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘 📖 Read more: lspjournal.com
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Women in French Australia @wifaustralia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📣 Call for proposals 📣 We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists! More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
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CFPs, EOIs & News
Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Was listening to it the other day! Quite the poems…
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Love the Mallarmé
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Some real gems from Dr Emma Bielecki: ‘La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres' (Mallarmé, 'Brise Marine') And 'Je suis le Ténébreux, – le Veuf, – l’Inconsolé, Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la Tour abolie' (Nerval) #WorldPoetryDay2025
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The combative words of Louise Ackermann in “Mon livre” #feminizeyourcanon #worldpoetryday
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Valentina Gosetti @valentinagosetti.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Je ne vous offre plus pour toutes mélodies Que des cris de révolte et des rimes hardies. Oui ! Mais en m’écoutant si vous alliez pâlir ? Si, surpris des éclats de ma verve imprudente, Vous maudissez la voix énergique et stridente Qui vous aura fait tressaillir ? #WorldPoetryDay @uksdn.bsky.social
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Maria Scott @mariascott.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here are my favourite lines of 19C French-language poetry, because they make me laugh and think of the sun: 'Il fait s'évaporer les soucis vers le ciel Et remplit les cerveaux et les ruches de miel' (Baudelaire, 'Le Soleil') [Il = the sun] #WorldPoetryDay2025 @uksdn.bsky.social
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What are your favourite lines of nineteenth-century poetry in French? #WorldPoetryDay2025
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I wrote a post on the Breton correspondents in the collection of former Mayor of Cardiff and keeper of the Gorsedd's sword Edward Thomas Cochfarf! Who were these Bretons? What were they writing about? dreamcollex.hypotheses.org/7725#more-7725
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Edward Thomas (Cochfarf; 1853-1912) and his Breton network
Professor Heather WILLIAMS, research fellow (CAWCS) Cet article est une traduction en anglais de l’article publié le 20 février. Mayor of Cardiff, founder of Cardiff Cymrodorion, business man, tempera...
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Women in French Australia @wifaustralia.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Women in French Australia stands in solidarity with @cumodernlanguages.bsky.social. See our open letter here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...
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CFPs, EOIs & News
Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…
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Dr Antonia Wimbush @awimbush.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Delighted that my monograph BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives is now in press & published in April with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Available for pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bumidom.... A huge thank you to @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding my project on the BUMIDOM!
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BUMIDOM (1963–1982) and its Afterlives
BUMIDOM (1963–1982) and its Afterlives
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