A reminder that the Prismatic Jane Eyre translation competition for schools is still open for entries.
Read all the latest news and upcoming events from the faculty on the main News page.
Professor Karen Leeder has been shortlisted for The Society of Author’s annual Schlegel-Tieck translation prize.
The Gerda Henkel Stiftung just announced its decision to fund The Nuns’ Network project for another 36 months (until May 2025), making it possible to edit the full extent of the impressive letter collections from the Benedictine convent of Lüne.
The Faculty welcomed representatives of the charitable foundation of entrepreneur Dieter Schwarz in Oxford for a formal signing ceremony.
DPhil Candidate Oliver Jones has been named joint winner of the Forum for Modern Language Studies Prize 2021 for his article ‘Reading Implication: Moral Injury in Heinrich Böll’s Billard um halb zehn and Vasilii Grossman’s Vse techet’.
On the first anniversary of Samuel Paty's assassination, and at a time when many children across the world, particularly girls, are being denied access to education, the Faculty wishes to stress that it condemns any violence against those seeking to dispense or acquire learning.
The faculty has been awarded funding from the Oxford Diversity Fund for this academic year to support the Diversity Translation Project.
Professor Karen Leeder went on BBC's 'Start the Week' programme this week.
Research project, Creative Multilingualism, funded recent graduate Jamie Green, who passed his viva on ‘Cultural identity and multilingualism in South Tyrol from 1919-2019’.
The Guardian university ranking 2021 confirms the faculty as the best Modern Language department in the UK
Professor Karen Leeder gave a talk called"White Gold: Meissen Porcelain and The Destruction of Dresden".
We are delighted to announce that Professor Karen Leeder has been elected to the Schwarz Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature.
Congratulations to Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, whose new book Projecting Imperial Power has just been published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Ritchie Robertson gave the lecture on Tuesday 15 June 2021, marking his retirement.
The three winners of the 2021-22 LIDL Year Abroad Prize have kindly shared with us the projects they will be working on during their upcoming Year Abroad:
More information will be added once they have started working on their projects in Michaelmas Term.
Congratulations to Dr Joanna Raisbeck who has won the Klaus Heyne-Preis.
The tenth issue of the Oxford Polyglot is now available for reading.
The faculty is partnering with the Queen’s College Translation Exchange and Stephen Spender Trust on the Inclusive Outreach through Translation project.
Professor Karen Leeder has been elected to the Board of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
The grant will be used for his project, 'MMMMO – Mechthild’s Medieval Mystical Manuscripts’.