We are delighted to share details about this year’s conference for MFL Teachers which will take place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 September 2025 at Somerville College, Oxford.
Karen Leeder's translation of Durs Grünbein's Selected Poems Psyche Running has been awarded the prestigious Griffin Poetry Award.
View the results of our 2025 Flash Fiction Competitions in French and Spanish for secondary school students.
Professor Papaioannou joins the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
Oxford Modern Languages Alumna, Professor Dame Marina Warner, has been awarded an honorary degree by the American University in Paris. Marina read French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall.
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'.