Most recent papers:

• Against ‘AIDS-writers’: HIV/AIDS, writer culture and racial stigma in Cyril Collard’s Taggers (1990).
  Orsolya Katalin Petocz1Department of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, 2152University of Cambridge, Robinson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  French Cultural Studies. 6 days ago
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  Cyril Collard's TV-filmTaggers(1990), an episode of the seriesLe Lyonnais, has been largely overlooked in scholarship and public reception. This article takes an intersectional perspective, steering away from the dominant focus on white, middle-class, ...

  April 29, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261445339   open full text
• La race dans le rap français, un signifiant flottant ? Diam's et la construction d'une persona en clair-obscur.
  Keivan Djavadzadeh27081Université Paris 8, France.
  French Cultural Studies. 11 days ago
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  RésuméÀ travers l’examen de la persona de Diam's, cet article interroge la façon dont la race se pose en signifiant flottant dans le rap de la seconde moitié des années 2000 en France. Première rappeuse française à avoir rencontré le succès auprès du ...

  April 24, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261443619   open full text
• Encoding, decoding race. The politics of production and reception in cultural industries.
  Maxime Cervulle, Anamik Saha, Karim Hammou, Emily Q. Shuman.
  French Cultural Studies. April 13, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  In this joint interview, Anamik Saha and Maxime Cervulle discuss their respective acts of scholarship. Their research shares a common root in British Cultural Studies, particularly in the foundational work of Stuart Hall. Based on distinct case studies ...

  April 13, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261420124   open full text
• Nostalgia, hauntings and feminine icons: Locating whiteness in television series about French cinema.
  Emily Q. ShumanDepartment of Modern Languages and Cultures, 6029Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  French Cultural Studies. April 06, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  Following critiques of French cinema's whiteness, this article explores the roles of race and gender in the television seriesDix pour cent(2015–2020) andIrma Vep(2022). Both series express nostalgia towards French cinema's female icons and ethos.Dix ...

  April 06, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261438607   open full text
• Human constellations and the postcolonial state: The music of Black So Man and the pathologies of Burkina Faso.
  Abubakar S TajudeenDepartment of Law, 58987University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
  French Cultural Studies. February 28, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This study examines the music of Burkinabé artist Black So Man, bringing into focus how his songs articulate political critique and social commentary through what I term “human constellations”—metaphorical figures of lovers, youth, elders, parents, and ...

  February 28, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261423871   open full text
• Recover, amplify, reimagine: Transnational solidarities and anticolonial utopias in Dreams Have No Titles by Zineb Sedira.
  Amanda Tavares1Instituto de História da Arte, 112053Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
  French Cultural Studies. February 26, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This article analyses Dreams Have No Titles (2022), a multidisciplinary and immersive installation by UK-based, French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira. Commissioned for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, the project takes inspiration from the ...

  February 26, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261423868   open full text
• Les frontières raciales du show business français. Soul Makossa et la presse professionnelle musicale des années 1970.
  Karim Hammou1669046CNRS, Paris.
  French Cultural Studies. February 23, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  RésuméCet article analyse les frontières raciales à l’œuvre dans l’industrie française du disque dans les années 1970, au moyen d’une analyse systématique du principal titre de presse professionnelle du secteur,Show Magazine, et d’une étude de cas ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406511   open full text
• Incendiary women: Edith Thomas, the Second World War and writing women into history.
  Claire Gorrara1School of Advanced Study, 3163University of London, London, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. February 16, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 173-183, May 2026.
  This article examines the wartime writing of French resister and historian Edith Thomas. It argues that Thomas's collection of fictional clandestine short stories,Contesd’Auxois (1943), provides an early social history of the French Resistance. It ...

  February 16, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261421396   open full text
• A moment of luxury in eighteenth-century France: On Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing.
  John Armitage1Winchester School of Art, 7423University of Southampton, Winchester, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. February 09, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  The first section of this article offers a conceptual and historical narrative of luxury in eighteenth-century France, moving to an introduction to the main thrust of the eighteenth-century French philosophers of luxury Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jean-...

  February 09, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261417900   open full text
• In flesh and metal: Automachinic femininity in Titane.
  Melissa Barchi PanekGlobal Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2037Brooklyn College, New York, NY, USA.
  French Cultural Studies. February 09, 2026
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines how Julia Ducournau'sTitane(2021) reconfigures the cultural coding of the automobile in French cinema by merging it with female corporeality to construct what I termautomachinic femininity. Challenging the long-standing ...

  February 09, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09571558261418002   open full text
• Challenging the enduring epistemic injustice of eating disorders: Critically re-reading Occupation food insecurity in the Trente Glorieuses with Elsa Triolet and the 1944–1945 ‘Minnesota Starvation Experiment’.
  Ruth Cruickshank3162Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. December 30, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 205-217, May 2026.
  The intersection of food insecurity in occupied France with other risk factors and comorbidities thought to lead to eating disorders has been obscured. So have the profound emotional and functional impacts which occur right across the spectrum of these ...

  December 30, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406518   open full text
• The ABCs of early French computational literature: APL, Paul Braffort, and constrained writing in Oulipo.
  Bruno Galmar34911French Department, National Central University, Taiwan.
  French Cultural Studies. December 29, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores how Iverson's APL (A Programming Language), a distinctive programming language, was integrated into Oulipo'sAtlas de littérature potentielleby Paul Braffort (1923–2018), the group's AI and programming expert. For Braffort, APL was ...

  December 29, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406513   open full text
• Casting out: The racial division of acting labor in French film and television.
  Maxime Cervulle, Sarah Lécossais.
  French Cultural Studies. December 22, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines how racial categories shape casting practices in the French film and television industry. Drawing on interviews with 24 casting directors and 51 actors and actresses perceived as non-white, it reveals a highly stratified employment ...

  December 22, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406520   open full text
• Occupation and resistance: In honour of Margaret Atack.
  Diana Holmes, Max Silverman1School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, 4468University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. December 19, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 159-161, May 2026.
  

  December 19, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406515   open full text
• Voices of French women in wartime London: ‘Books that record great events do not explain how ordinary people of a great city live during momentous days’.
  Debra Kelly.
  French Cultural Studies. December 19, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 193-204, May 2026.
  The primary aim of this contribution is to seek the traces of those not foremost in the plethora of texts published during and after the Second World War concerning key figures and political and military events of the period. Its focus is a range of ...

  December 19, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406505   open full text
• Storying the archive of war.
  Hilary Footitt1Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, 3163University of London, London, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. December 16, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 184-192, May 2026.
  This article situates Margaret's early doctoral research, resulting in the seminal study ‘Literature and the French Resistance: Cultural Politics and narrative forms, 1940–1950’, within the 1970s/1980s context of Resistance historical scholarship in which ...

  December 16, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406517   open full text
• Unity and ambiguity in French culture of the 1940s.
  Michael Kelly17423University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. December 15, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 162-172, May 2026.
  Margaret Atack's work offers a clear insight into the enduring paradoxes of the Occupation and its aftermath. She suggests that novels of Unity written during the Occupation were followed by novels of Ambiguity which reflected the social and moral ...

  December 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406746   open full text
• Neuroexistentialism: Camus’ La Chute.
  David Philip PlattenFaculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, French Department, 4468University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. December 10, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 218-228, May 2026.
  Although Camus'sLa Chute(1956) is not a popular choice, even among some Camus specialists, Margaret Atack considered it to be one of the finest works of modern French literature. This complex novella is the story of a man purporting to evaluate his own ...

  December 10, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251406512   open full text
• Rêver sous le capitalisme (2017): Work dreams.
  John Edward Marks1Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, 6123University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. October 17, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This article considers Sophie Bruneau's documentaryRêver sous le capitalisme(2017) as a significant and distinctive contribution to the field of social dreaming. It shows how Bruneau was inspired by Charlotte Beradt's foundational workThe Third Reich ...

  October 17, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251381551   open full text
• Skins and rags in Kamal Abderrahim’s fictional trilogy: The body as a parchment of history.
  Mohamed Semlali684549ENS - Université Moulay Ismaïl, Maroc.
  French Cultural Studies. October 15, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  In his trilogy of novels, Abderrahim Kamal revisits the final years of King Hassan II's reign – a period marked by the revelation of the Tazmamart prison, a clandestine facility that became a symbol of state violence, swallowing dozens of lives in ...

  October 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251379328   open full text
• Une lecture phénoménologique de À l’enfant que je n’aurai pas de Linda Lê.
  Van Quang Pham164065Université des Sciences sociales et humaines, Ho Chi Minh-Ville (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh-Ville, Vietnam.
  French Cultural Studies. July 30, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  

  July 30, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251347039   open full text
• Technocritique and its limits: Éric Sadin on human dignity in the face of artificial intelligence.
  Thomas Sutherland7423University of Southampton, UK.
  French Cultural Studies. July 14, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  Examining the work of French writer, philosopher, and ‘technocritic’ Éric Sadin, with a particular focus on his fears regarding artificial intelligence systems’ infiltration into numerous facets of human affairs, their imposition of a ‘universal technical ...

  July 14, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251358691   open full text
• Literary voyeurism between legitimacy and illegitimacy: The case of Lol V. Stein.
  Murielle El Hajj580237Lusail University, Qatar.
  French Cultural Studies. June 06, 2025
  French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
  This study explores the concept of literary voyeurism as a complex phenomenon, involving the dynamics of observation, power, and ethical responsibility within literary narratives. Drawing on psychoanalytic frameworks from Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, ...

  June 06, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09571558251347038   open full text