Introduction
Welcome to the fourth issue of The Oxford Polyglot
Introduction
Welcome to the second issue of The Oxford Polyglot.
In these pages, you can find articles relating to a range of languages, written by students and colleagues. We learn about the history of the Maison Française. Tom Kuhn describes the Brecht project to which he has been a major contributor.
The Faculty is delighted to have been awarded Bronze award through the Athena Swan Charter. The Athena Swan Charter is a framework which is used across the globe to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.
Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Shining Sheep has been longlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize 2025
Karen Leeder has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Durs Grünbein, Psyche Running: Selected Poems 2005-2022 (Seagull Books 2024).
Ian Maclachlan has won the prize awarded by the Modern Language Review for the best article published in 2024, for his essay on 'Nicolas Pesquès and the Ecology of Life-Writing: Human and Non-Human Relations in La Face nord de Juliau'.
Kirstin Gwyer has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26.
Nikolaj Lübecker has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26. Nikolaj’s project – entitled The World Brain, A Cultural History – explores the sometimes utopian, sometimes dystopian idea that the world coheres as a cognisant system.
Introduction
Welcome to the twenty-first edition of the Oxford Polyglot
Professor Jonathan W Thacker