Head of the School of Modern Languages & Professor of Literature in French at University of Bristol. Researching multilingual, transnational & migrant writing.
Joined August 2011
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Pleased to announce the publication of my book Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves, almost exactly one year after my @french_studies visiting fellowship. Very grateful to all who helped! routledge.com/Multilingual-L…
So pleased to be hosting @french_studies conference in @BristolSML this year! Looking forward to asserting the value, contribution and importance of research in #frenchstudies #sfsbristol
@profnatedwards looking delighted to welcome delegates to the 2025 conference of the Society of French Studies at the University of Bristol! #sfsbristol @BristolCompLit @BristolUni
I love working on migration whilst I'm in transit, and wrote this on trains and during a long lay-over at Hong Kong airport: Caribbean Life Writing as World Literature
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🚨 Applications for Bristol Translates 2025 are now open!
Join us for a 5 day online summer school from 7 to 11 July 2025. There will be three days of translation workshops in eleven languages with leading translators in each language. @RosSchwartz @Holly_Langstaff
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Giving you a caring nudge! You may still submit your article abstracts before the end of the week. @profnatedwards and myself are looking forward to reading your proposals.
Our call for articles on ‘Francophone Perspectives on New and Radical Forms of Care’ is now live on Francofil! @profnatedwards and I are looking forward to reading your proposals!
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“The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level” | Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities timeshighereducation.com/opi… via @timeshighered
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Our call for articles on ‘Francophone Perspectives on New and Radical Forms of Care’ is now live on Francofil! @profnatedwards and I are looking forward to reading your proposals!
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Read "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives", edited by @profnatedwards, @octolingualman Christopher Hogarth, Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas, and Shannon Sandford for the journal Auto/Biography Studies tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/c…
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Weberfest uber alles. Great to be reunited with friends and colleagues from Northwestern University and to celebrate the 35th and final anniversary of the Paris Program in Critical Theory of Samuel Weber which we enjoyed being part of 20 years ago! #northwesternuniversity #paris
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In a new piece for @ConversationUK, Dr José Lingna Nafafé (@BristolHiPLA) uncovers new evidence highlighting the role Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, a Black African lawyer, played in championing slavery's abolition a full 150 years before William Wilberforce
theconversation.com/angolan-…
Congratulations to @DrAshwinyOK on her excellent book, Refugee Afterlives, which I was pleased to launch at the @refugeestudies centre @UniofOxford this evening.
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This looks like one to pre-order @RoutledgeLit all right! I'm very pleased with Chapter 8 by @profnatedwards but each of the seventeen chapters looks interesting bloomsbury.com/us/life-writi…
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UUK: "Graduates from more disadvantaged backgrounds who had a period abroad during their degree earned 4.2% more and were 6.1% more likely to be in a graduate level job compared to their non-mobile peers"
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Congratulations on this latest Routledge book from Megan Brown and Helga Lenart-Cheng, "Un/Bound" which includes my humble offering with @profnatedwards "Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau" routledge.com/UnBound/Brown-…
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Key UUK Blueprint for HE recommendation today: 'There should be a national strategy to foster language provision in schools & to retain sufficient higher education capability in languages & interdisciplinary area studies to meet the long-term needs of the UK' @UCFLangs @ILCS_SAS – at Stockport, England
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Happy first day of term to our students and colleagues!
We hope you found our Welcome Week events helpful, including the talk by our Head of School @profnatedwards (pictured here addressing the Modern Language Class of 2028). Pic credits @octolingualman
#WeAreBristolUni
A very warm welcome to the 300+ students of Modern Languages @BristolSML!
@profnatedwards Natalie addressing the incoming Modern Languages Class of 2028 at the University of Bristol. I’m flattered she told them she ended up marrying one of her classmates, though relieved she didn’t say who or where that person was…
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Debra Dank asks in Open Access interview in our issue "How can such a young language (English) articulate Aboriginal linguistic form/function when our communicative practice has been in place/evolving for at least sixty thousand years?" @profnatedwards brill.com/view/journals/jlm/…
My fabulous department and I are all excited to host the 2025 SFS conference at Bristol! Abstracts due 21 September. @FrenchUoB1 @BristolCompLit @BristolSML @AuFrenchStudies @UoBArtsMatter @BristolUni
A reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for next year's SFS conference in Bristol is 21st September 2024. The CfP is available via the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/conferences/sfs-an…
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Latest publication from our @arc_gov_au Discovery grant is Volume 2 (2024): Issue 2 (Sep 2024): Special Issue: Australia’s Multilingual Literary Landscape, edited by Christopher Hogarth and Natalie Edwards. @profnatedwards Article descriptions to follow brill.com/view/journals/jlm/…
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Congratulations to @mateobrown for his book Sport in South America: A History on winning the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2024, awarded by the British Society of Sport History @BritSportHisSoc @SouvikNaha @EricaMunkwitz @YaleBooks @BristolUni sportinhistory.org/
