The Oxford Polyglot: Hilary Term 2023

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The Oxford Polyglot
2022-23
Hilary Term 2023

Volume: 2022-23

Issue: 2

Introduction

All Souls from the back on a winter morning

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of The Oxford Polyglot

Professor Jonathan Thacker

Being a student at Oxford affords opportunities to learn, but also to develop critical acumen and skills which will last a lifetime.

Shooting in the Scottish Wilderness for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2018) Photograph credit: Anna Koch.

Transferable Skills…from academia to the film industry with Anna Koch

Where can a doctorate in French take you? Many places including a job at Netflix as Dr Anna Koch explains to Ellee Su, a third-year student at Christ Church

Ellee Su

Let’s talk about the war

A famous Ukrainian writer is interviewed by two M.St. students

Atticus Mawby and Rhys Collins

The White Rose Resistance – 80 Years On

An Oxford-led commemoration of German student resistance

Dr Alexandra Lloyd

Fol. 57r. of MS Spanish e 9. Image courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries.

The Spanish Baroque and the history of reading

A DPhil student in French reflects on her prizewinning MSt project in Spanish

Tess Eastgate

Prize-winning Proust studies

We catch up with a doctoral student recently awarded a prize

Eleanor Lischka

A Philosophical Romantic

Putting Karoline von Günderrode in her rightful place

Dr Joanna Raisbeck

French poet of Polish descent Marie Krysinska

Recovering Marie Krysinska

A new edition is giving a major nineteenth-century author her rightful place

Professor Seth Whidden

Arsène [Hélène?] Trouvé, oil on porcelain, 1832, after Auguste Bouquet’s ‘J. Deburau’ (1831, now lost). Source: courtesy of the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Deburau: Pierrot, Mime and Culture

A New Book goes in search of the man behind a familiar face

Professor Edward Nye

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University of Oxford

The Oxford Polyglot: Hilary Term 2023