法语系致力于在法语研究的主要方面进行创新和卓越的研究。该部门在中世纪，近代早期，视觉文本关系，19世纪，20世纪和21世纪文学，银幕和舞台改编，文化历史和政治方面具有特殊优势。我们与其他部门进行了广泛的合作，特别是在视觉和文学文化，冲突与文化，中世纪研究，英语和比较文学以及后殖民研究中心等领域。每个研究学生都被分配到正在研究其建议书的学者中研究领域或相关领域，并受益于可能来自另一个部门的第二任主管的投入，具体取决于项目的跨学科性质。该系是战争与文化研究小组的区域中心，该系的成员活跃在广泛的艺术学院研究集群
The Department of French is committed to research innovation and excellence in major aspects of French studies. The department has an exceptionally wide range of expertise, including the medieval period, early modern period, visual-textual relations, 19th, 20th and 21st-century literature, film and drama (including screen and stage adaptations), cultural history, politics, and comparative literature. We collaborate extensively with other departments, especially in the fields of visual and literary cultures, conflict and culture, medieval studies, English, and comparative literature.Each research student is assigned to an academic who works in their proposed area of research or a related field, and benefits from the input of a second supervisor who may be from another department, depending on the interdisciplinary nature of the project.The department is a regional centre for the Group for War and Culture Studies and members of the department are active in a wide range of Faculty of Arts research centres and groups. A number of our staff members are editors of leading journals and active in subject associations.Postgraduate students can benefit from an exchange agreement with the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm), or take an exchange lecturer post at the Université de Bordeaux III.Research students lead the organisation of a postgraduate seminar series in literary and visual landscapes, and an initiative to edit postgraduate creative writing.