
Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Thick of it (Seagull Books, 2018), has been shortlisted for the prestigious Schlegel-Tieck translation prize of the Society of Authors for 2019.
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Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Thick of it (Seagull Books, 2018), has been shortlisted for the prestigious Schlegel-Tieck translation prize of the Society of Authors for 2019.
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, edited and translated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine has just been nominated as one of the TLS’s ‘Books of 2019’
Catriona Seth was recently invited to discuss her new edition of Marie-Antoinette's letters to the Austrian ambassador on RFI's De Vive(s) Voix.
We are pleased to announce funding opportunities available to applicants for graduate programmes in the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, for Michaelmas 2020 entry.
Applications are invited for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships from suitably qualified researchers wishing to base their work in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
One of the main strands of the 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, starting this week at The Greek Film Archive, is inspired by Dimitris Papanikolaou's recent book.
Karen Leeder on BBC Radio 3 The Verb Talking about German Poetry since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Pushkin House has announced the recipients of their inaugural Contemporary Russian Poetry in Translation Residency.
Dr Chantal Thomas gave this year's Zaharoff lecture on Tuesday 12 November.
We welcome the new French Ambassador, Her Excellency Ms Catherine Colonna, on her first visit to Oxford.
The recording of Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture is now available to view.
Professor Catriona Seth and Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly have been elected to the Academia Europaea
We are delighted to announce the second round of Year Abroad Prizes, kindly sponsored by Lidl, available to students reading German.
Prizes of up to £500 for creative projects to be undertaken alongside the main activities of the year abroad.
The talk this year will be given by Dr Chantal Thomas.
Professor Catriona Seth, as co-investigator, convened the workshop in Ravenna.
To commemorate the 77th anniversary of the first White Rose trials, there will be a public performance of translated excerpts from the group’s letters and diaries in Oxford in mid-2020.
Professor Caroline Warman has recently participated in the Radio 4 programme, In Our Time
On 7 October 2019, the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages launched their new Early Career Researchers Network.
The Sub-Faculty of Spanish and the Centro Internacional del Español (University of Salamanca) meets with representatives from Cairo, Hong Kong, Maryland and UNAM (Mexico City) to prepare the launch of the research exchange digital platform COMUN-ES