Lillian Fontaine
@lillianfontaine.bsky.social
Lecturer in Francophone Postcolonial Studies @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social. Former ECR @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | DPhil Oxford, St Anne's @ox.ac.uk | Originally from Sydney, Aus | Interested in Maghrebi lit, spectrality, intertextuality, multimodality.
Such an inspiring conference @LSE on Historical Struggles & Imagined Utopias in Algeria this week - a huge thank you to all organisers! @britishacademy.bsky.social @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @coventryuni A truly international and interdisciplinary event (even came across a giant Australia!)
May 30, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Such an inspiring conference @LSE on Historical Struggles & Imagined Utopias in Algeria this week - a huge thank you to all organisers! @britishacademy.bsky.social @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @coventryuni A truly international and interdisciplinary event (even came across a giant Australia!)
Really heartwarming to see such engagement today at this important talk on Britain’s complicity in the Palestinian Genocide, with Prof Avi Shlaim, Peter Oborne & Prof Eugene Rogan at the Oxford Literary Festival 🇵🇸 @ox.ac.uk @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
March 28, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Really heartwarming to see such engagement today at this important talk on Britain’s complicity in the Palestinian Genocide, with Prof Avi Shlaim, Peter Oborne & Prof Eugene Rogan at the Oxford Literary Festival 🇵🇸 @ox.ac.uk @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
My review of Sonja Stojanovic's 'Mind the Ghost' is out! A thought-provoking work on spectrality, time and memory in contemporary Francophone fiction from around the world. Highly recommend if interested in literary hauntings and aftermaths of conflict & colonisation. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
March 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
My review of Sonja Stojanovic's 'Mind the Ghost' is out! A thought-provoking work on spectrality, time and memory in contemporary Francophone fiction from around the world. Highly recommend if interested in literary hauntings and aftermaths of conflict & colonisation. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
This is so true, and a timely pedagogical reminder for us all as educators/tutors/lecturers/teachers/mentors. Incisive and heartfelt words from Ocean Vuong on how we’ve created a world in which students are ‘more and more self-conscious of trying’. youtube.com/shorts/fsGsm...
Ocean Vuong on the unsettling way 'cringe culture' holds young people back | 7.30
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July 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is so true, and a timely pedagogical reminder for us all as educators/tutors/lecturers/teachers/mentors. Incisive and heartfelt words from Ocean Vuong on how we’ve created a world in which students are ‘more and more self-conscious of trying’. youtube.com/shorts/fsGsm...
Un bon début (enfin!) mais il reste encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir… www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Un accord à l’arraché crée un « Etat de la Nouvelle-Calédonie »
Le texte marque l’engagement de l’Etat français, des indépendantistes et des non-indépendantistes, vers un nouveau statut du territoire, « une solution pérenne ». Un pacte de réformes économiques, inc...
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July 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Un bon début (enfin!) mais il reste encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir… www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Happening tomorrow!!! ❤️🤍💚🖤
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb
A three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Happening tomorrow!!! ❤️🤍💚🖤
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb
A three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
Officially been ✨ upgraded ✨
So lovely to be back in Oxford for my (very belated) graduation! Featuring a very heavy, hard-bound thesis, and an equally heavy feast🥂 👩🎓 🎉
So lovely to be back in Oxford for my (very belated) graduation! Featuring a very heavy, hard-bound thesis, and an equally heavy feast🥂 👩🎓 🎉
May 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Officially been ✨ upgraded ✨
So lovely to be back in Oxford for my (very belated) graduation! Featuring a very heavy, hard-bound thesis, and an equally heavy feast🥂 👩🎓 🎉
So lovely to be back in Oxford for my (very belated) graduation! Featuring a very heavy, hard-bound thesis, and an equally heavy feast🥂 👩🎓 🎉
ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS!!! Really looking forward to this interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, June 19-20 - complete with film, feast & (Gnawa) fusion 🤗 We’d love to receive your proposals so don’t be shy! maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com Allez! !هيّا
Postcolonial Temporalities
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April 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS!!! Really looking forward to this interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, June 19-20 - complete with film, feast & (Gnawa) fusion 🤗 We’d love to receive your proposals so don’t be shy! maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com Allez! !هيّا
Excited to announce the CfP for an interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb in Edinburgh in June (19-20th)! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤗 @abdelbaqi.bsky.social & I cannot wait to receive your paper proposals! More info & full CFP here: maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com
Postcolonial Temporalities
Visit the post for more.
maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Excited to announce the CfP for an interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb in Edinburgh in June (19-20th)! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤗 @abdelbaqi.bsky.social & I cannot wait to receive your paper proposals! More info & full CFP here: maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com
Today’s lecture venue… complete with organ and chandelier! #McEwanHall @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ✨
March 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Today’s lecture venue… complete with organ and chandelier! #McEwanHall @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ✨
So, so disheartening. Not just for current staff; or for all of us who have just finished PhDs and are starting out on our academic journeys in the hope there will ever be some semblance of a stable job in the future; or even for the students who will have larger class sizes, less attention… (1/2)
Language courses in danger of dying out as universities open redundancy schemes https://buff.ly/4hqjlpB #langsky
Language courses in danger of dying out as universities open redundancy schemes
There are 88 universities undergoing redundancies, restructuring schemes or department closures
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February 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
So, so disheartening. Not just for current staff; or for all of us who have just finished PhDs and are starting out on our academic journeys in the hope there will ever be some semblance of a stable job in the future; or even for the students who will have larger class sizes, less attention… (1/2)
Finally made the move to BlueSky so bringing my last post with me! Thrilled that my article is now out in #AJFS @livunipress.bsky.social! 🤗 It examines what I call the 'spectrality of intertextuality' in contemp Algerian francophone writing - enjoy! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
The Thousand and One Ghosts: Stories as Revenants in Salim Bachi’s Amours et aventures de Sindbad le Marin (2010) | Australian Journal of French Studies
This article examines the ghostly representation of a particular tradition of Arabic
storytelling in contemporary francophone literature, one that emphasizes cross-cultural
mobility and endless adapta...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Finally made the move to BlueSky so bringing my last post with me! Thrilled that my article is now out in #AJFS @livunipress.bsky.social! 🤗 It examines what I call the 'spectrality of intertextuality' in contemp Algerian francophone writing - enjoy! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...