We are delighted to announce that Stephen Romer FRSL, a renowned poet, critic, translator and editor will spend the academic year as Royal Literary Fellow with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
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Ève Morisi offering her expertise on the intellectual journey of French Algerian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus (1913-1960).
For the first time, students in Britain will be judges for France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt.
Congratulations to the winners of the first round of LIDL prizes!
Two members of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages have been recognised and awarded the title of Professor.
His Excellency Monsieur Jean-Pierre Jouyet, France's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is leaving London to take up the position of Ambassador to the OECD in Paris
Professor Catriona Seth FBA (All Souls College) has been elected Secretary-General of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Patrick McGuinness has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
French Ambassador, His Excellency Mr Jean-Pierre Jouyet, presented Professor Patrick McGuinness and Mrs Geneviève Adams of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages with the insignia of chevalier and chevalière of the 'Palmes académiques'
The Voltaire Foundation is delighted to announce the award of a generous research grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant of $704,000 for a period of 18 months will enable the preliminary phase of Digital Scholarly Editions of the European Enlightenment (Digital Enlightenment).
The Faculty would like to congratulate Dr Kate Tunstall on being appointed Interim Provost of Worcester College.
Madeleine Chalmers has been selected as the winner of this year’s R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize, for her essay ‘The Surreal Technics of André Breton and Gilbert Simondon’.
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages shares the concern within the sector on the issue of severe grading in the Modern Foreign Languages A level.
Applicants for the Faculty's graduate courses have access to a wide range of funding opportunities within the Faculty and wider University.
Research within the University has found that reading complex and engaging texts is key to inspiring young learners’ interest in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) and potentially improving how the subject is taught in UK secondary schools, according to new Oxford University research.
The Faculty are delighted to announce the launch of a new configuration of our MSt course through a partnership with the Saïd Business School. The new 1+1 MBA course with Modern Languages will be available for first intake from October 2019, and is a unique, two-year graduate experience that combines the depth of a specialised, master’s degree with the breadth of a top-ranking, one-year MBA.
Medieval and Modern Languages doctoral student Helen Craske has jointly won the prestigious Naomi Schor Memorial Award presented by the international scholarly society the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association (NCFS), at its annual conference held in late October.
The Faculty is holding an information session for MSt and MPhil programmes on Monday 26 November.