The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes is delighted to announce that the winners of the 2023 Tim Unwin ECR Grant are Dr Max McGuinness (independent scholar) and Coraline Refort (Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Università degli Studi di Firenze).

The grant has been renamed to recognise Professor Tim Unwin’s generous donation to the Society and his longstanding support of early-career researchers.

Winner – Dr Max McGuinness

The grant will support Max in attending the 2023 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in Baltimore, USA, at which he’ll deliver a paper entitled ‘Inscribing the Passage from Journalism to Literature in Proust’s Recherche’. The paper will set forth a central argument of Max’s forthcoming book, Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust (Liverpool University Press, 2024).

Runner-up – Coraline Refort

Coraline will use the grant to fund a research trip to Sisteron, Provence, to consult the private archive of Mr Thierry Peeters, great-grandson of the first female director, producer and head of a film studio in the history of French cinema, Alice Guy. The work will form part of her PhD thesis, ‘Les débuts d’Alice Guy au cinema, la restauration d’une histoire (1896-1907).

Warmest congratulations, Max and Coraline!

Details of the 2024 competition will be announced in due course.