Jack Nunn (Worcester College) has been voted this year’s winner, for his essay on ‘New Ecologies: Plants, Stones, Robots’
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Dr Belinda Jack was interviewed on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 last week.
The Michaelmas edition of The Oxford Polyglot is now available.
As part of this third edition, the Maison Française d’Oxford will be hosting a series of special events on youTube, starting with Christine Angot on 26 January and Louis-Philippe Dalembert on 9 February.
Harriet McKinley-Smith has just been awarded a Fondation Wiener-Anspach doctoral fellowship for 2022-23.
Notes the completion of the pilot project to digitise, annotate, and collect the metadata of one of the great eighteenth-century correspondences.
Colleagues will be saddened to learn that Richard Parish, Emeritus Professor of French, Fellow of St Catherine's College and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, died on 1 January 2022. Richard was a distinguished scholar and a wonderful colleague, and will be much missed by colleagues and friends.
We’re delighted to announce the return of our ever-popular French and Spanish Flash Fiction competitions for school students.
The Maison Française d'Oxford are hosting an exhibition called 'From history painting to Steve Bell's cartoons. Parodies of Napoleonic art (1801-2019)' until 10 January 2022.
Professor Patrick McGuinness has written the introduction to a new edition of James Joyce's Ulysses.
A reminder that the Prismatic Jane Eyre translation competition for schools is still open for entries.
A new edition of Maupassant's tales prefaced by Professor Catriona Seth has just been published.
New book aimed at a popular audience celebrates pioneering medieval writer and proto-feminist
A gift from the Astra Foundation has funded the post of Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Voltaire Foundation.
The Oxford Cake Shop is making a real-life version of the wedding cake from Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary and it will be revealed in the Covered Market on 15 November, 12.00-1.00.
Funding available for a doctoral partnership to work on Marie Antoinette's letters with Professor Catriona Seth and the Château de Versailles.
On the first anniversary of Samuel Paty's assassination, and at a time when many children across the world, particularly girls, are being denied access to education, the Faculty wishes to stress that it condemns any violence against those seeking to dispense or acquire learning.
Both winners of the 2021 Arthur Terry Postgraduate Essay Prize have just graduated with an MSt degree in Modern Languages from Oxford.
The faculty has been awarded funding from the Oxford Diversity Fund for this academic year to support the Diversity Translation Project.
Professor Catriona Seth films documentary by Priscilla Pizzato about Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses.