Congratulations to Tobias Barnett, his article 'Catherine Malabou's Historical Epistemology' (2024) has been awarded the Prize for Best Article of 2023/24 by Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory. Drawing on the theoretical aspects of his doctoral research, the article explores the work of French philosopher Catherine Malabou through the lens of 'historical epistemology', a neglected, twentieth-century tradition of French thought pioneered by philosophers of science Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem. You can read Tobias's article for free, here. A review of the article is due to appear in the forthcoming issue of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, which you can read here.

Toby is a fourth-year PhD candidate in French at the MMLL Faculty, and Crausaz-Wordsworth Scholar in the Humanities at Robinson, where he also holds a Vice-Chancellor's Award from the Cambridge Trust. His PhD research centres on the intellectual history of republicanism, empire, and the human sciences in modern France and the francophone world, with a particular focus on the untranslatable concept of 'milieu'.

Alongside his studies, Toby is Postgraduate Officer for the Society for French Studies, the foremost learned association for French and Francophone Studies in the UK and Ireland.