From Michaelmas 2017 the Faculty will welcome the first Maison Française/St Catherine's College Visiting Fellows in Modern and Medieval Languages. They will lecture in the Faculty, be housed at the Maison Française Oxford (MFO) and be Research Associates at the College.

The MFO was founded as a research institute after the end of the Second World War as a way to maintain links with French universities and encourage Franco-British academic collaborations.

The individuals in question are Laurence Campa from Université Paris 10-Nanterre, a specialist in twentieth-century French poetry, and Michel Magnien from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, a specialist in French Renaissance literature.