Winter 2025

Future Worlds of Health

Guest Editors, Benjamin Dalton, Benjamin Gagnon-Chainey, and Kaliana Ung

This special issue explores the potential of speculative methodologies within the Medical Humanities to imagine the futures of health/care. To do so, it activates collaborative, interdisciplinary and intersectional explorations of health/care futures as they are imagined, expressed, and designed through literature, arts, philosophy, architecture, and medicine in French and Francophone cultures. In a time of pandemics, widening healthcare inequalities, the emergence of AI, and the question of the environmental sustainability of healthcare, this special issue demonstrates how speculative imaginaries across diverse disciplines – from science fiction to design fiction – can drive the research needed to approach and tackle these key challenges.

In press

Spring 2026

Actualité de la théorie littéraire (2000-2020): lignes de force, transformations, tensions, théorie

Guest Editors, Elisa Bricco, Morgane Kieffer, Frédéric Martin-Achard, and Estelle Mouton-Rovira

This issue studies some recent trends in literary theory. It analyzes new interdisciplinary relationships between literary studies and cognitive science, the contributions of pragmatic philosophy, or of quantitative methods enabled by the rise of digital technologies. The issue also explores current critical imaginaries, such as the question of ordinary reading and the agency of literature. Finally, it addresses axiological questions: interpretative conflicts surrounding texts, the possibility of judging works of the past, and the author's role as responsible for the work's ideology.

In press

Summer 2026

Faits divers and the Fictions of Race

Guest Editors, Madeleine Dobie and Olivia Harrison

The status of truth in journalism is an object of growing attention and concern. Among the many common strategies of mis- and dis-information is the amplification and distortion of minor news stories (faits divers) that ‘go viral’ and become the stuff of conspiracy theories and political posturing. Across a range of historical periods and national contexts, faits divers have contributed to the production of racial stereotypes, fueling antisemitism in the late nineteenth-century and anti-immigrant discourse in the era of postcolonial migration. This special issue tackles what the French historian of immigration Gérard Noiriel has called the “fait-diversisation” of reporting in the age of rising nativism to interrogate the fictions of race, both the narrative strategies on which racial thinking relies and recent deployments of fiction to challenge and subvert racial stereotyping. Our interrogation is anchored in the French context but includes comparative approaches to the production of racial clichés and openings to other sites.