Prof Judith Butler’s lecture yesterday was a hugely powerful tour de force. The collective solidarity and energy in the room was inspiring. We are proud to have hosted it with lgbtQ+@cam and CambridgeGender @ bsky.social. Recording coming soon for those who couldn't get a seat!

Thrilled to be on this shortlist! French Studies MHRA FilmScreenCam @mmllpostgrad

"Anchoring their work in elemental life routines, the four artists explore the sensuous materiality of existential vacillation and survival." Dr Adèle Cassigneul on Alice Blackhurst’s work on Chantal Akerman, Annie Ernaux, Louise Bourgeois, and Sophie Calle. lareviewofbooks.org/article/carnal…

This Sunday's cover 'If it's not a risk then it's nothing': Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her unapologetic career Interview by Alice Blackhurst 📸 Ed Alcock

Congratulations Maeve McCusker! Thank you French Studies for including me in such good company!

Lovely interview with Annie Ernaux in today’s Observer New Review by Alice Blackhurst Seven Stories Press !

To Annie Ernaux, "literary length is not an indicator of literary labour: 'My books are so short because I spend a long time writing them,' she has said." More from the spectacular Observer New Review profile on Ernaux theguardian.com/books/2023/may…

“When an event demands you rise to the occasion, and you feel that you cannot… Well, actually, you can.” Check out this recent @Guardian article about 2022 literature laureate Annie Ernaux, who talked with Alice Blackhurst about her career and activism: bit.ly/3oq3OQm

This week’s The TLS, featuring Sarah Baxter on Trump’s competition; Peter Parker on Noël Coward; Alice Blackhurst on Monique Wittig; Boyd Tonkin on the NPG; Catherine Taylor on Eliza Clark; Pablo Scheffer on time in the Middle Ages – and more

Reviewed a new edition of Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body in the 14th July edition of the TLS this week: the-tls.co.uk/articles/le-co…

Wrote about new translations of Anne Serre for New Left Review

A preview of my foreword to Marguerite Duras’s MY CINEMA, publishing this month Another Gaze / Another Screen

« This is no arid feminist manifesto, but, rather, an earthy and absorbing story of “what gets done to women”, in the world » Alice Blackhurst on Fabriquer une femme by Marie Darrieussecq in this week’s The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/fabri…

Alice Blackhurst (Alice Blackhurst) on the work of Heather Lewis. ‘Rigorously deviant, technically merciless, to read it is almost an act of physical exertion, the effect viscerally stunning like a gut-punch.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'Rigorously deviant, technically merciless' Read Alice Blackhurst's piece on Notice by Heather Lewis for the New Left Review 🖤🩷 newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… Alice Blackhurst Get your copy of Notice: serpentstail.com/work/notice/

Tonight at London Review Bookshop! Constance Debré in conversation with Alice Blackhurst for a sold out London event, discussing Constance's novels Playboy, Love Me Tender, and much more: eventbrite.co.uk/e/constance-de… Serpent's Tail Semiotext(e)

On Constance Debré’s novel Playboy last night London Review Bookshop Serpent's Tail

A conversation I had with Constance Debré in Paris in February now up BOMB Magazine

‘To take Duras literally on any aspect of her oeuvre often involves subjecting oneself to a degree of confusion and ambiguity’— Alice Blackhurst introducing the beautiful Another Gaze / Another Screen translation of MY CINEMA