We would like to extend our warm wishes to Her Excellency Madame Catherine Colonna, France's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, who has been appointed Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
Read all the latest news and upcoming events from the faculty on the main News page.
Congratulations to Caroline Warman who has been jointly awarded the R. Gapper Book Prize 2021
Today the UK funding bodies have published the results of the UK’s most recent national research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
Congratulations to Professor Nikolaj Lübecker who has released his new book 'Twenty-First-Century Symbolism'.
Professor Catriona Seth took part in a recent episode of "In Our Time" about French writer and political activist, Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
The Voltaire Foundation has just brought to a successful conclusion its ground-breaking work on the 205 volumes of the Complete Works of Voltaire, the first ever full scholarly edition of this Enlightenment author.
Calling all Year 12 French, German and Spanish students from UK state schools – an exciting opportunity awaits.
The programme Creative Multilingualism is offering FIVE awards of up to £500 each for small creative projects.
Our colleagues from The Queen's College share details of their next International Book Club meeting - a really wonderful opportunity for school students to engage with literature from around the world!
We are delighted to announce the launch of the freely searchable CAT19 database of French novels from 1801-1830.
Applications for the BAME Humanities Study Day are open until 20th February.
Jack Nunn (Worcester College) has been voted this year’s winner, for his essay on ‘New Ecologies: Plants, Stones, Robots’
Dr Belinda Jack was interviewed on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 last week.
The Michaelmas edition of The Oxford Polyglot is now available.
As part of this third edition, the Maison Française d’Oxford will be hosting a series of special events on youTube, starting with Christine Angot on 26 January and Louis-Philippe Dalembert on 9 February.
Harriet McKinley-Smith has just been awarded a Fondation Wiener-Anspach doctoral fellowship for 2022-23.
Notes the completion of the pilot project to digitise, annotate, and collect the metadata of one of the great eighteenth-century correspondences.
Colleagues will be saddened to learn that Richard Parish, Emeritus Professor of French, Fellow of St Catherine's College and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, died on 1 January 2022. Richard was a distinguished scholar and a wonderful colleague, and will be much missed by colleagues and friends.