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Acknowledgments
This issue arises from ‘Enviro-Medical Approaches to Modern Francophone Culture’ and ‘Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues’ on 10–11 May 2019 at the University of Bristol’s School of Modern Languages, which had logistical support from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Environmental Humanities, and the University of London’s Institute of Modern Languages Research. Besides the authors of the coming pages, the events engaged the talents of Joseph Ford, Sarah Jones, Holly Langstaff, and Gina Robinson, as well as teachers and pupils from Bristol Cathedral Choir School, Colston’s Girls’ School, Marling School in Stroud, and the Commonweal School in Swindon. Pivotal encouragement came from Susan Harrow and Gino Raymond, who backed my proposal to the journal’s editorial board. Gill Allwood, in her capacity as Executive Editor, was a fount of support and expertise. I am very grateful to the sixteen reviewers from Canada, England, Scotland, Sweden, and the USA whose detailed comments helped each contributor to great effect. It was a real treat to hone ideas at the Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on ‘The Anthropocene’ under the auspices of the British Academy and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Special thanks go to Arthur, Beatrice, Frances, James, Kasia, and Keir for input including feedback on each other’s drafts.
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Daniel A. Finch-Race
Daniel A. Finch-Race FHEA (he/il/egli) is a research fellow in the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, following teaching/research fellowships in Southampton, Durham, Edinburgh, and Bristol. His solo publications include articles in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Modern Language Review, and Romance Studies, as well as an issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts (‘Poetics of Place’, 2019). As co-editor, he worked with Jeff Barda on Textures (Peter Lang, 2015), with Stephanie Posthumus on French Ecocriticism (Peter Lang, 2017), with Julien Weber on issues of Dix-neuf and L’esprit créateur (‘Ecopoetics’, 2015; ‘French Ecocriticism’, 2017), and with Valentina Gosetti on a double issue of Dix-neuf (‘Ecoregions’, 2019). During 2019–20, he was the treasurer of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, and a founder of the special interest group for early career academics within the University Council of Modern Languages.