The most recent episode of the BBC's much-loved history of art programme "Fake or Fortune", presented by MML graduate Fiona Bruce and gallery owner Philip Mould, centred on a picture by a Scottish painter, Katherine Read (1723-1778).
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Professor Catriona Seth is one of the experts who is interviewed as part of BBC Select's new series of "Queens that changed the world".
Ève Morisi, Professor of Literatures in French and Political Humanities, was recently interviewed by the BBC World Service about the National Library of France's acquisition of the complete archives of Albert Camus (1913-1960), one of most prominent write
Professor Catriona Seth was Andrew McGregor's 'expert guest' for BBC Radio 3's broadcast of "The Marriage of Figaro" from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
The 2027 Bukhman International Booker Prize committee has been announced. The panel includes the writer, translator and Oxford Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Patrick McGuinness.
Congratulations to the Maison Française d'Oxford which is 80 this year. The MFO, in Norham Gardens is well-known to students in French and beyond.
International Oxford-Tunisia Conference and Doctoral Seminar in Kairouan
Our Director of Research Daron Burrows has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project ‘The Anglo-Norman Verse Psalter: the first critical edition’
For the 7th consecutive year, Oxford MML students and faculty have taken part in the Choix Goncourt UK
Professor Caroline Warman has been sworn in as Junior Proctor for the coming year
Dr Olivier Séguin-Brault, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in French and Senior Demy at Magdalen College, has been awarded the Grand Prix de thèse de la Ville de Tours 2025.
A few words from Hannah: I am delighted to have been awarded the Holocaust Studies prize, which recognises the best article published in the journal each year.
A major conference on Beaumarchais will take place in Oxford on 4 and 5 June 2026. It is organised by Dr Linda Gil of the University of Montpellier and Professor Catriona Seth of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
Cameron Etherton (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) and Eve Judah (Newnham College, Cambridge) have been awarded a generous grant by the Society for French Studies.
Professor Catriona Seth was President of the 2025 Institut Universitaire de France Selection Panel The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) distinguishes 200 academics in France (100 at junior and 100 at senior level) every year across all disciplines.
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?
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.