Introduction Welcome to the fifteenth issue of The Oxford Polyglot Professor Jonathan W Thacker Being a student at Oxford affords opportunities to learn, but also to develop critical acumen and skills which will last a lifetime.
Transferable Skills…from academia to the film industry with Anna Koch Where can a doctorate in French take you? Many places including a job at Netflix as Dr Anna Koch explains to Ellee Su, a third-year student at Christ Church Ellee Su
Let’s talk about the war A famous Ukrainian writer is interviewed by two M.St. students Atticus Mawby and Rhys Collins
The White Rose Resistance – 80 Years On An Oxford-led commemoration of German student resistance Dr Alexandra Lloyd
The Spanish Baroque and the history of reading A DPhil student in French reflects on her prizewinning MSt project in Spanish Tess Eastgate
Prize-winning Proust studies We catch up with a doctoral student recently awarded a prize Eleanor Lischka
Recovering Marie Krysinska A new edition is giving a major nineteenth-century author her rightful place Professor Seth Whidden
Deburau: Pierrot, Mime and Culture A New Book goes in search of the man behind a familiar face Prof. Edward Nye