Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Thick of it (Seagull Books, 2018), has been shortlisted for the prestigious Schlegel-Tieck translation prize of the Society of Authors for 2019.
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The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, edited and translated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine has just been nominated as one of the TLS’s ‘Books of 2019’
We are pleased to announce funding opportunities available to applicants for graduate programmes in the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, for Michaelmas 2020 entry.
Karen Leeder on BBC Radio 3 The Verb Talking about German Poetry since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Professor Catriona Seth and Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly have been elected to the Academia Europaea
We are delighted to announce the second round of Year Abroad Prizes, kindly sponsored by Lidl, available to students reading German.
Prizes of up to £500 for creative projects to be undertaken alongside the main activities of the year abroad.
To commemorate the 77th anniversary of the first White Rose trials, there will be a public performance of translated excerpts from the group’s letters and diaries in Oxford in mid-2020.
The Faculty is sorry to announce that Cyril Edwards passed away on Saturday 13th July 2019.
Congratulations to the winners of the first round of LIDL prizes!
‘Mediating Modern Poetry’ (MMP) is opening up German poetry to new audiences in the UK and English-speaking world.
Huge congratulations to the first round of winners of the newly installed prize for creative projects during the Year Abroad in a German speaking country (https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/03/18/lidl-year-abroad-prizes) which is sponsored by LIDL UK. The committee was delighted to receive such a variety of inventive and engaging proposals.
They are:
Sophie BAILEY (German & History, Christchurch) “Milch und Honig: Traditionen frisch gebacken”
Megan BLACK (German, St Hugh’s) “kiez.schafft: collective creating”
Arjuna KESHVANI-HAM (German & English, Worcester) “An Independent Publication: Mo MENTA”
Lucy KELLY (German & English, Jesus) We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Über It: Examining the progression of Germany’s LGBTQ culture
Eve MASON (German & English, Queens) “Es war einmal’: the revitalization of nineteenth-century German women writers’ fairy tales”
Josh PENOLLAR (German & Italian, Balliol) Sport & Sprache - Coaching Football for Underprivileged Children
Timothy POWELL (German & French, St Edmund Hall) "Deutsche Art steht über allen!": An exploration of Hermann Stodte's reception and translation of Walther von der Vogelweide's poetry in the NS-Zeit.
Constance SIMMS (German, St John’s) “Hello to Berlin”
The two projects by students currently on their Year Abroad, Megan Black and Connie Simms, will be celebrated by a launch in November 2019, date to be confirmed. The seven projects by students yet to go on their Year Abroad will go live as they are progressing. They will also be in for the chance to win an extra £500 prize after completion, to be judged in June 2020. Meanwhile, the application process remains open, with the next deadline end of December 2019 (https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/03/18/lidl-year-abroad-prizes).
Dr Alex Lloyd and Emma Huber have won Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Oxford's Humanities Division.
We are delighted to announce four new Year Abroad Prizes, kindly sponsored by Lidl, available to students reading German.
Katrin Kohl is contributing to a Start the Week episode entitled ‘Language and Culture’ on BBC Radio 4, Monday 4th March, 9:00 and 21:30.
The Faculty are very grateful to Bosch for their funding of a graduate scholarship for a student to undertake the new 1+1 MBA/MSt German course.
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.
Karen Leeder has been awarded the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation 2018 for her translation of Durs Grünbein,'The Doctrine of Photography', which appeared in Poetry 2017. The John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for translation work is permanently endowed through a fund established by Bonnie Larkin Nims, Trustees of The Poetry Foundation, and friends of the late poet, translator, and Editor of Poetry. Previous winners include: Marilyn Hacker, Eavan Boland, and Michael Hofmann 2007
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144808/the-doctrine-of-photography