Congratulations to Eleanor Lischka, who has won the R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay prize.
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Congratulations to colleagues across the Faculty, who have had success in winning Oxford-Berlin funding for their projects.
Our colleagues from The Queen's College share details of their next International Book Club meeting - a really wonderful opportunity for school students to engage with literature from around the world!
We are sad to announce that Peter Mackridge died in Sobell House on 16 June 2022.
C. M. MacRobert has been honoured with a Festschrift published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Members of the Portuguese sub-faculty were delighted to meet the new Portuguese Ambassador to the UK, his Excellency Nuno Brito, during his recent visit to Oxford on Wednesday 25 May 2022.
Congratulations to all who entered this year's Flash Fiction competitions.
Professor Catriona Seth was a recent guest on Ivan Wise's 'Better Known' podcast.
As an act of academic solidarity, the Faculty hosted a celebration of Ukrainian Literature and Culture.
We would like to extend our warm wishes to Her Excellency Madame Catherine Colonna, France's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, who has been appointed Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
Congratulations to Caroline Warman who has been jointly awarded the R. Gapper Book Prize 2021
A major discovery of two Latin odes by Spain's greatest Renaissance poet, Garcilaso de la Vega, has been made by third-year doctoral student in Spanish, Maria Czepiel.
Today the UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
Nigel F. Palmer was Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies in the Faculty of Modern Languages and Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall from 1992 until his retirement in 2017.
Members of the Spanish sub-faculty were delighted to meet the Spanish Ambassador to the UK, his Excellency José Pascual Marco Martínez, during his recent visit to Oxford.
Dr Joanna Raisbeck, is the joint recipient of the Novalis-Preis 2022.
Congratulations to Professor Nikolaj Lübecker who has released his new book 'Twenty-First-Century Symbolism'.
Professor Catriona Seth took part in a recent episode of "In Our Time" about French writer and political activist, Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
The Voltaire Foundation has just brought to a successful conclusion its ground-breaking work on the 205 volumes of the Complete Works of Voltaire, the first ever full scholarly edition of this Enlightenment author.