The Centre for Early Modern Studies is host to the largest, most vibrant early modern scholarly community in the world.

A number of Faculty members are active participants in the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translaton Research programme.

Italian Studies at Oxford (ISO) is an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on Italy at the University of Oxford. Established in December 2007, ISO aims to foster dialogue and collaboration among Oxford academics working in different disciplines.

The Maison is part of the network of French Overseas Research Institutes.

The Oxford German Network is the first university-led cultural network.

The Oxford Kafka Research Centre aims to advance and co-ordinate research on Franz Kafka, and more generally on German-language and especially German-Jewish literature and culture in the period of Modernism.

Oxford Medieval Studies is one of the largest forums in the world for interdisciplinary research on the Middle Ages, bringing together over 200 academics and a large body of graduate students. The period of a thousand years from c.500 to c.

The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment is a new and fast-expanding research centre with an annual programme of lectures, seminars and conferences on every aspect of the Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century - from debates about tolerance and freedo

TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross disciplinary research projects, based in the Humanities at the University of Oxford.

As a research department, our mission is to disseminate world-leading research into the Enlightenment, and to bring the debates of Voltaire and his contemporaries to the widest possible audience.