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.
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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.
Calling all Year 12 French, German and Spanish students from UK state schools – an exciting opportunity awaits.
The programme Creative Multilingualism is offering FIVE awards of up to £500 each for small creative projects.
Applications are invited for grants to support creative projects with a German theme, to be undertaken alongside the main activities of the Year Abroad.
Several current Portuguese students and recent graduates of the Faculty have been providing translations for literary project Maps of Confinement, drawing together a manifesto of confinement experienced during the pandemic.
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!
On 24 February, Prof. Natalia Nowakowska (Oxford) delivered an Ilchester Lecture on the topic From Tribe to Dynasty? Globalizing the Jagiellonians of Central Europe (1377-1596).
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Sub-Faculty of Russian and Slavonic Languages join our colleagues at ASEEES, AATSEEL, BASEES, and across the Slavic studies community in strongly deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We stand with all those who oppose this act of aggression, and we wish for the safety of our colleagues, students, friends, and family in the region.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the freely searchable CAT19 database of French novels from 1801-1830.