Read all the latest news and upcoming events from the faculty on the main News page.
Dr Joanna Raisbeck has been awarded a MHRA scholarship to work on her book 'The Philosophical Romanticism of Karoline von Günderrode'.
The seven winners of the 2019-20 LIDL Year Abroad Prizes have kindly shared with us the projects they worked on during their Year Abroad.
Some of them have also compiled a list of Do's & Dont's when applying to the LIDL Year Abroad Prize and when carrying out your project once abroad. A must-read!
Admissions for graduate taught and research programmes at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages for entry in October 2020 are currently open.
As the open days for this year have been cancelled we encourage you take a look at our online talks instead for more information.
In the fifth of our 'Your Stories' series, Hannah Jackson gives us her view on the year abroad and where it can lead.
The third from our 'Your Stories' series explores Oxford's tutorial system and its impact.
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages came top in the QS World Rankings 2020.
Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig Thick of it (Seagull Books 2018) was the runner up in the prestigious Society of Authors Schlegel-Tieck award 2019
This day is for Year 12 students from UK schools who have Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic (BAME) heritage.
Professor Leeder reads some of her new translation of Durs Grünbein’s powerful evocation of one of the great symbolic tragedies of twentieth-century warfare: Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City, Seagull Books (2020).
We are looking to do a ‘Your Stories’ feature on our wonderful and varied alumni, in May 2020.
The Oxford Spires Academy’s project “A Writer’s War” was designed to examine how writers from the UK, France, and Germany responded to the First World War in poetry and prose.
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’
We are pleased to announce funding opportunities available to applicants for graduate programmes in the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, for Michaelmas 2020 entry.
Karen Leeder on BBC Radio 3 The Verb Talking about German Poetry since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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.