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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.
Applications for Oxford's flagship access and outreach programme are now open!
We are delighted to announce that Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, FBA, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in June 2022, to honour her contribution to German studies.
Two colleagues have been awarded the title of full Professor in the most recent Recognition of Distinction exercise.
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.
The University of Oxford has launched its ‘gran finale’ for Dante in Oxford 2021 – a schools competition celebrating Italy’s most famous poet.
We’re delighted to announce the return of our ever-popular French and Spanish Flash Fiction competitions for school students.
Jonathan Thacker and Roy Norton of the Sub-Faculty of Spanish have co-edited a 'Companion to Calderón de la Barca', the most significant seventeenth-century Spanish playwright.et
The Maison Française d'Oxford are hosting an exhibition called 'From history painting to Steve Bell's cartoons. Parodies of Napoleonic art (1801-2019)' until 10 January 2022.
Professor Patrick McGuinness has written the introduction to a new edition of James Joyce's Ulysses.
A reminder that the Prismatic Jane Eyre translation competition for schools is still open for entries.
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.
A new edition of Maupassant's tales prefaced by Professor Catriona Seth has just been published.
New book aimed at a popular audience celebrates pioneering medieval writer and proto-feminist
