Welcome to Professor Almut Suerbaum, who is the new Chair for the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
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For the first time, students in Britain will be judges for France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt.
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!
Two members of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages have been recognised and awarded the title of Professor.
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages welcomes interest from suitably qualified applicants in this year's British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme
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
Andrey Levitskiy wins Early Career Researcher Award at the Vice Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Awards 2019
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Kahn on his election to the British Academy.
As president of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dr Caroline Warman of Jesus College welcomed the 1600 delegates.
Patrick McGuinness has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
‘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).
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'
Dr Alex Lloyd and Emma Huber have won Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Oxford's Humanities Division.
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).
We are pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Thacker's inaugural lecture as King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies is now available online, here.