News: Prizes

The Society is delighted to announce the four shortlisted entries for this year's R. Gapper Book Prize.

The Society is delighted to announce the winner and runner-up of the 2024 R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize.

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Visiting International Fellowship.

The deadline for nominations for the Malcolm Bowie Prize, our prize for outstanding work by early career researchers, has been extended to the end of February 2021.

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize.

The deadline for the 2020 R. Gapper postgraduate essay prize has been extended to 30 November 2020 - get your entries in now!

The deadline for the 2019 R. Gapper postgraduate essay prize is fast approaching. Make sure you get your submissions in before 31 October!

The Society for French Studies is pleased to announce that the recipient of this year’s R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Madeleine Chalmers (Trinity College, University of Oxford), for an essay titled ‘The Surreal Technics of André Breton and Gilbert Simondon’.

The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce the results of the R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize 2018.

We are delighted to announce that this year’s R. Gapper book prize has been won by Prof. Roger Pearson (The Queen’s College, Oxford) for Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France (OUP, 2016). Also highly commended is Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France (Boydell & Brewer, 2016) by Dr Helen Swift (St Hilda’s College, Oxford).