We are delighted to announce that Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, FBA, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in June 2022, to honour her contribution to German studies.
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Two colleagues have been awarded the title of full Professor in the most recent Recognition of Distinction exercise.
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.
The University of Oxford has launched its ‘gran finale’ for Dante in Oxford 2021 – a schools competition celebrating Italy’s most famous poet.
We’re delighted to announce the return of our ever-popular French and Spanish Flash Fiction competitions for school students.
Jonathan Thacker and Roy Norton of the Sub-Faculty of Spanish have co-edited a 'Companion to Calderón de la Barca', the most significant seventeenth-century Spanish playwright.et
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.
Professor Karen Leeder has been shortlisted for The Society of Author’s annual Schlegel-Tieck translation prize.
The Gerda Henkel Stiftung just announced its decision to fund The Nuns’ Network project for another 36 months (until May 2025), making it possible to edit the full extent of the impressive letter collections from the Benedictine convent of Lüne.
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.
The Faculty welcomed representatives of the charitable foundation of entrepreneur Dieter Schwarz in Oxford for a formal signing ceremony.
DPhil Candidate Oliver Jones has been named joint winner of the Forum for Modern Language Studies Prize 2021 for his article ‘Reading Implication: Moral Injury in Heinrich Böll’s Billard um halb zehn and Vasilii Grossman’s Vse techet’.
On 8th October 2021, the Sub-faculty of Portuguese in collaboration with St Peter’s College, hosted a colloquium in honour of Professor T.F. Earle, the first holder of the King John II Professorship. He recently turned 75.