Staff profile

• 2025: R Gapper Book Prize: Awarded the 2024 R Gapper Book Prize by the Society for French Studies in 2025, for Making Space in Post-war France: the Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning.
• 2022 - 2023: Deputy Chair, Advisory Group for the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement in Languages, Cultures and Societies: Between 2022 and 2023 I was the Deputy Chair of the Advisory Group for the revised QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Languages, Cultures and Societies.
• 2019 - 2022: Honorary Secretary, Society for French Studies:

Authored book

• Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria
  
  Welch, E., & McGonagle, J. (2013). Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria. Liverpool University Press.
• François Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual
  
  Welch, E. (2006). François Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual. Rodopi.

Chapter in book

• ‘“Match nous a raconté une histoire”: Thinking with Roland Barthes about Photography, Publics and the Exercise of Power in Post-war France
  
  Welch, E. (2020). ‘“Match nous a raconté une histoire”: Thinking with Roland Barthes about Photography, Publics and the Exercise of Power in Post-war France. In Photography and its Publics (pp. 63-77). Bloomsbury Academic.
• Angels of History: Looking Back at Spatial Planning in the Mission photographique de la DATAR
  
  Welch, E. (2019). Angels of History: Looking Back at Spatial Planning in the Mission photographique de la DATAR (pp. 13-34). Liverpool University Press.
• Experimenting with Identity: People, Place and Urban Change in Contemporary French Photography
  
  Welch, E. (2005). Experimenting with Identity: People, Place and Urban Change in Contemporary French Photography. In The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture (pp. 156-171). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781571816498

Edited book

• Photography and its Publics
  
  Miles, M., & Welch, E. (Eds.). (2020). Photography and its Publics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003103721
• France in Flux: Space, Territory and Contemporary Culture
  
  Blatt, A. J., & Welch, E. (Eds.). (2019). France in Flux: Space, Territory and Contemporary Culture. Liverpool University Press.
• Photography: Theoretical Snapshots
  
  Welch, E., Long, J., & Noble, A. (Eds.). (2008). Photography: Theoretical Snapshots. Routledge.

Journal Article

• The Hexagonal Politics of Gaullist Infrastructure
  
  Welch, E. (2024). The Hexagonal Politics of Gaullist Infrastructure. French Studies, 78(4), 592-606. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knae123
• Literature and Photography
  
  Welch, E. (2019). Literature and Photography. French Studies, 73(3), 434-444. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knz129
• Objects of Dispute: Planning, Discourse and State Power in Post-war France
  
  Welch, E. (2018). Objects of Dispute: Planning, Discourse and State Power in Post-war France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 36(2), 103-125. https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2018.360205
• The place of the Republic: Space, territory and identity around and after Charlie Hebdo
  
  Welch, E., & Perivolaris, J. (2016). The place of the Republic: Space, territory and identity around and after Charlie Hebdo. French Cultural Studies, 27(3), 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155816648107
• La Carte et le territoire: Mapping, Photography and the Visualization of Contemporary France
  
  Welch, E. (2014). La Carte et le territoire: Mapping, Photography and the Visualization of Contemporary France. Nottingham French Studies, 53(2), 186-200. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2014.0085
• Appréhender la banlieue: Les Passagers du Roissy-Express and spatial enquiry in contemporary France
  
  Welch, E. (2014). Appréhender la banlieue: Les Passagers du Roissy-Express and spatial enquiry in contemporary France. Francosphères, 3(2), 173-186. https://doi.org/10.3828/franc.2014.14
• Stars of CCTV: Technology, Visibility and Identity in the Work of Sophie Calle and Annie Ernaux
  
  Welch, E. (2009). Stars of CCTV: Technology, Visibility and Identity in the Work of Sophie Calle and Annie Ernaux. Nottingham French Studies, 48(2), 55-67. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2009-2.007
• Marc Augé, Jean Rolin and the Mapping of (Non-)Place in Modern France
  
  Welch, E. (2009). Marc Augé, Jean Rolin and the Mapping of (Non-)Place in Modern France. Irish Journal of French Studies, 9(1), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.7173/16491335.2009.09.01.049
• ‘Une réconciliation du réel et des hommes’: Mythologies and the Politics of Things
  
  Welch, E. (2008). ‘Une réconciliation du réel et des hommes’: Mythologies and the Politics of Things. Nottingham French Studies, 47(2), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2008-2.003
• Portrait of a nation: Depardon, France, photography
  
  Welch, E. (2008). Portrait of a nation: Depardon, France, photography. Journal of Romance Studies, 8(1), 19-30. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.8.1.19

Monograph

• Making Space in Post-war France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of Post-war State Planning
  
  Welch, E. (2023). Making Space in Post-war France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of Post-war State Planning. Legenda.