Perpetua Haydn Taylor (French and Italian, New College) was one of eight students honoured in the University’s Encaenia ceremony.
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The Faculty congratulates Sir Robin Niblett who read Modern Languages as an undergraduate in the 1990s on his appointment as Warden of New College. Election of New Warden | New College
Former French President François Hollande made a brief visit to Oxford. He took the opportunity of meeting academics and students at the Maison Française d'Oxford and of hearing about the numerous activities it organises and sponsors.
Oxford Modern Languages Alumna, Professor Dame Marina Warner, has been awarded an honorary degree by the American University in Paris. Marina read French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall.
Ian Maclachlan has won the prize awarded by the Modern Language Review for the best article published in 2024, for his essay on 'Nicolas Pesquès and the Ecology of Life-Writing: Human and Non-Human Relations in La Face nord de Juliau'.
Nikolaj Lübecker has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26. Nikolaj’s project – entitled The World Brain, A Cultural History – explores the sometimes utopian, sometimes dystopian idea that the world coheres as a cognisant system.
The British edition of the prestigious French literary prize has been held in London on 28th March.
A book by faculty member Holly Langstaff is one of four titles shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize
Congratulations to doctoral student Anna Glieden, who has been awarded a prestigious Wiedemann-Fellowship for Enlightenment Research at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) in Halle.
During the second World War, Daniel Cordier was a young secretary to the famous Jean Moulin, one of the main leaders of the Resistance.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony on 12 February 2025. French – Scott Moncrieff Prize - The Society of Authors
Professor Patrick McGuiness has had a book of Poems entitled 'Blood Feather' shortlisted for the Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize for Poetry
The Alliance française d'Oxford is offering a prestigious award for local sixth form students of French to recognise a potential for excellence.
Oxford MML alumna Dr Kelsey Rubin-Detlev has been awarded a Level II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.
With the support of the Astra Foundation, the Voltaire Foundation is pleased to provide a donation for the programme.
Professor Catriona Seth was involved in the preparation of an exhibition at the Invalides on duels and duelling.
Three French colleagues have produced a volume of essays on poetry by the late Michael Sheringham.
Nikolaj won the prize for his book Twenty-First-Century Symbolism.
You are warmly invited to two events with Benjamin Hoffmann, creative writer and Professor of French at Ohio State University.