Introduction
Welcome to the eighteenth edition of the Oxford Polyglot
Welcome to the eighteenth edition of the Oxford Polyglot.
‘The Hidden Dance of Writer and Reader: Creative Tensions in Fiction'
An account of this year’s Taylor Lecture, delivered by Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin
Agnes Fanning
David Diop on ‘Literary Creation and Poetics of Voice’
An Account of the 2024 Zaharoff Lecture
Lillian Fontaine
Women's Political Activism in Russia During the Past Century
A story about the book exhibition 'Women and Resistance in Russia' in the Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution Library
Kissing the Behind Face: Translating Chaucer in Nineteenth-Century Germany
A Leverhulme Early Career Fellow looks at how nineteenth-century Germans dealt with Chaucer’s bawdiness
Dr Mary Boyle
A Semester at Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule in Berlin
Making connections through time and place across literature and languages
Hannah Scheithauer
With the Nuns on the Red Sofa
Medieval nuns go live on prime-time German television
Professor Henrike Lähnemann
Reconsidering two transatlantic literary icons
A graduate on the unexpected path from her prizewinning MSt dissertation to her upcoming doctoral research
Zoe West-Taylor
Cross-Channel Literary encounters
An interview with Stephen Romer on the publication of 'Chaos and the Clean Line: Writings on Franco-British Modernism'
Stephen Romer