cforsdick.bsky.social
Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..
👤 Joined on 22 November 2024
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@cforsdick.bsky.social'there is a fundamental problem with treating the first destination after graduation as the definitive measure of higher education’s value. The transition into work is more complicated than that.'
Show PostProfessor Stephen Small is back in Liverpool for his next book tour stops. Listen back to him in conversation with Jermaine Foster on BBC Sounds where they chatted about Black Liverpool, his new book, and the tour. Stephen's segment starts about halfway in (timestamp: 1:38:12). bbc.in/4i3P6Xe
Show PostHeading off this morning to a six hour exam ordeal (four hours and a two hour lunch break) testing my FRENCH- first step on the path to citizenship. Please cross your fingers I don’t get so weirded out by replaying my A levels that I forget how to conjugate!
Show PostDeeply humbled and grateful to Moroccan writer, translator, and curator Omar Berrada for his words about my monograph "Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco", published last year by @livunipress.bsky.social. The paperback version is coming in 2027 #monograph
Show PostWhat can translation do? To mark #InternationalTranslationDay, World Writing in French series editors Charles Forsdick and Martin Munro reflect on translation's role in sustaining linguistic and literary diversity. Read the blog post 👇️ @cforsdick.bsky.social #AcademicSky
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