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Bourse ADEFFI / Ambassade de France
« Début de carrière » 2025–2026

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* Open for applications *

ADEFFI – in collaboration with French Embassy in Ireland – is pleased to offer its Early-Career Researcher Funding (2025–2026) for the second year running. This award of €1,000 is dedicated to helping any post-doctoral researcher who completed a PhD in any area of French and/or Francophone Studies on the island of Ireland by funding a short trip to France. The award is especially intended to strengthen a current research project and future applications to other funding bodies. To be considered eligible, applicants should have completed their viva no more than five years prior to the application deadline. Exceptions may be granted in the case of maternity leave, sick leave and career breaks. Those who have benefitted from post-doctoral funding grants are eligible to apply, but preference may be given to applicants not currently in receipt of funding. 

Pour la deuxième année consécutive, l’ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d’Irlande), en collaboration avec l’Ambassade de France en Irlande, a l’honneur d’annoncer le lancement de sa Bourse « Début de carrière » (2025–2026). Ce financement à hauteur de 1 000€ est destiné à couvrir les frais associés à un court séjour en France pour une personne résidant sur l’île d’Irlande en début de parcours professionnel dans la recherche sur les études françaises et/ou francophones. Cette bourse a pour objectif de renforcer le projet de recherche actuel et le profil professionnel relatif à l’obtention de bourses compétitives de recherche. Pour être éligible, les candidat·es devront avoir soutenu leur thèse doctorale dans les cinq ans maximum précédant la date butoir de dépôt des candidatures. Des exceptions seront faites pour les périodes de césure et/ou de congés maternité/maladie. Les candidat·es ayant bénéficié et/ou bénéficiant actuellement d’un financement compétitif de recherche sont éligibles à la Bourse ADEFFI « Début de carrière ». Les candidat·es n’ayant pas de tels financements compétitifs pourront avoir la priorité.

Dr Giaime Lazzari (Trinity College Dublin)

Lauréate de Bourse Adeffi / Ambassade de France « Début de carrière » 2025–2026



My research intervenes decisively in science-fiction studies by reconceptualising the genre through the lens of linguistic experimentation and spatial production. By examining how Francophone SF writers Daniel Drode and Monique Wittig, as well as Anglophone SF authors David Bunch, and Joanna Russ deploy language not merely to describe but to actively constitute alternative worlds, this project challenges dominant critical paradigms in SF studies that have long subordinated textual complexity to cognitive or sociopolitical concerns. By drawing its theoretical and methodological framework from deconstruction, this research also addresses a significant gap in existing scholarship, where the intersection between science fiction and deconstructive approaches remains largely unexplored. The comparative Franco-American perspective further enriches our understanding of how different literary ecosystems shaped divergent approaches to writing within the genre. Ultimately, this project aims not only to recover these four authors’ unique contributions to science fiction, but also to fundamentally reorient the field to consider the ways in which SF worlds emerge through and as textual practice — revealing the genre’s profound capacity for philosophical and literary innovation that conventional criticism has too often ignored or obscured and that, on the contrary, deconstruction has always prioritised. The ADEFFI bourse doctorale, so generously sponsored by AMOPA Irelande, will fund a research visit in Paris, where I plan to visit the manuscripts of the “Daniel Drode Fonds” at the BNF, which houses materials related to French SF author Daniel Drode. It will also help funding my trip to the 2025 ADEFFI Conference in Tolouse, where I am presenting my findings on Drode and his use of nouveau roman convention in his science-fiction novel Surface de la planète (1959). 

 

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Dr Ciara Gorman (University College Dublin)

Lauréate de Bourse Adeffi / Ambassade de France « Début de carrière » 2024–2025

This award will fund my research trip to the 2025 iteration of Quais du polar, a crime fiction festival which takes place annually in Lyon. The festival draws together readers, publishers and high-profile crime fiction authors from around the world, particularly from France and francophone countries, and hosts film screenings, cultural events and even mystery tours in honour of France’s rich tradition of crime writing. The festival’s programme is largely comprised of public interviews, roundtable discussions between authors and academics, and panel discussions on topics ranging from genre diversification to the contemporary crime novel’s efforts to grapple with climate change, political extremism and racism. Recent iterations of Quais du polar have laid heavy emphasis on the interactions between gender, feminism and genre in contemporary French crime fiction which are part of Ciara’s nascent research project on le polar féministe, an emerging subgenre of French crime fiction. Her trip to the festival will allow her to meet and interview several of the authors whose work is described as feminist crime fiction, kickstarting that portion of her research which considers feminist crime writing in the context of both public feminist activism and the rising tide of anti-feminist sentiment online and in real life.

Accueil de la Présidente de l'ADEFFI

L’Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande (ADEFFI) rassemble des membres des populations étudiante et enseignante, ainsi que de la recherche universitaire ou indépendante, qui s’intéressent à la langue et aux littératures, sociétés et cultures françaises et francophones. Soutenue par l’Ambassade de France en Irlande et l'AMOPA Irlande, l'ADEFFI organise chaque année : un colloque international, un forum informel au printemps, une journée d'études pour les doctorants et un prix pour le meilleur projet de thèse. Suivez-nous sur les réseaux sociaux pour lire les dernières informations concernant toutes nos activités.

Dr Sarah Berthaud, Présidente de l'ADEFFI

NOUS CONTACTER

Pour tout renseignement sur l'ADEFFI, contactez notre Secrétaire,

Dr Elyse Ritchey (Maynooth University): 

info@adeffi.ie

ADHÉRER

Pour devenir membre de l'ADEFFI, contactez notre Trésorière,

Dr Charlotte Berkery: charlotteberkery@gmail.com

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