At the invitation of Professor Francesca Pagani and the PhD programme in Transcultural Studies in Humanities of the University of Bergamo, Professor Catriona Seth recently gave a guest lecture titled "Who’s that in the painting?
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Professor Douglas Mao delivered a series of unforgettable events on the timely subject of Utopia during the third week of Michaelmas Term.
An exciting new project is bringing together academics from Oxford and Switzerland for interdisciplinary research into AI and portraiture.
Aditi Gupta has been awarded a prestigious residency grant at the Bibliothèque et Villa Marmottan in Paris.
The Ralph Gibson Bursary has been awarded to Aditi Gupta.
A workshop on French writer Louise d'Epinay took place in Oxford as part of an international project on her Histoire de Madame de Montbrillant.
This guide provides advice for languages researchers on how to navigate the UK government's Areas of Research Interest.
As part of the Initiative of Excellence – Research University (IDUB) programme, the Faculty of Modern Languages of Wroclaw University is hosting Catriona Seth, the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature.
Archival and art-historical research by Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, has led to the discovery of a historical mix-up: the most famous (and often reproduced) portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child, by Swiss artist Liotard, a
Perpetua Haydn Taylor (French and Italian, New College) was one of eight students honoured in the University’s Encaenia ceremony.
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.