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Professor Nicola Gardini has been elected President of Adriano Salani Editore; a leader in the field of children's stories.

Professor Neil Kenny is the British Academy's languages lead for the Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills initiative.

Patrick McGuinness has won the 2020 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award for his novel Throw me to the Wolves.

Emily McLaughlin releases her first book entitled Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance.

Warm congratulations to Professor Catriona Seth FBA whose edition of Marie-Antoinette's letters to Count Mercy has been shortlisted for the Prix Château de Versailles du Livre d'Histoire.

Dr Joanna Raisbeck has been awarded a MHRA scholarship to work on her book 'The Philosophical Romanticism of Karoline von Günderrode'.

The seven winners of the 2019-20 LIDL Year Abroad Prizes have kindly shared with us the projects they worked on during their Year Abroad.
Some of them have also compiled a list of Do's & Dont's when applying to the LIDL Year Abroad Prize and when carrying out your project once abroad. A must-read!

Dr Jessica Goodman launches the Modern Languages Outreach and Engagement project, which is British Academy funded.

Patrick McGuinness' second novel Throw me to the Wolves has been shortlisted for the Royal Society for Literature's Encore Award.
Admissions for graduate taught and research programmes at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages for entry in October 2020 are currently open.

MSt student, Caroline Godard wins the Oxford Student Union's College Community Award, for organising Language Immersion Nights.

In the last of our 'Your Stories' series, Helen Watt talks about reading Portuguese at Oxford as the Class of 1977.

Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou's book has been shortlisted for the Greek State Literary Awards.

As the four year Creative Multilingualism project comes to a close, their manifesto is now available.

Dr Gemma Tidman has been awarded the PGCert Portfolio Prize, as part of the Vice Chancellor's Education Awards scheme.