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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us for a conversation between Prof. Jordi Larios, Mr. Dylan Inglis, and Ms. Ana Barazal Barreira on three minority languages of Spain: Catalan, Basque, and Galician.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join Translator Ellen Elias-Bursać for a reading of the translated work 'Celebration', as well as a Q+A discussion about her career journey and what inspires her in her work! To sign up for the event, please register here: shorturl.at/xDz2l When: Wednesday 14th October, 6:15 PM in UCO: School 2

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We are pleased to announce this semesters research seminar events for our Cross-cultural circa 19th Century Research Centre.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to the Departments of French, German and Iberian Languages in achieving 1st place in the 2027 Times University Guide. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The School of Modern Languages is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising its sustained commitment to advancing gender equality and creating an inclusive and supportive environment for staff and students.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Professor Will Fowler’s second novel TRAIDORES has just come out in Mexico.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are pleased to announce that the School of Modern Languages has been ranked 3rd in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2027! www.theguardian.com/education/ng... #UniversityOfStAndrews

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The Guardian University Guide 2027 – the rankings

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Join Simon Ezra-Jackson for a fast-paced potted history of one of the greatest utopian projects that never was — and see first-hand how quickly you too can pick up the international language of peace.

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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Check out our new website: belgiums-stolen-children.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk Thanks to @jdmcinally.bsky.social for creating it @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

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Belgium's Stolen Children

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr Clément Godbarge who has been shortlisted for the finals of the Converge 2026 Competition in the "Create Change" challenge category. More information on this award and competition can be found here: www.convergechallenge.com/converge-rev...

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Converge reveals “most diverse group” of finalists ever - Converge Challenge

Innovation comes in many different shapes and sizes, and this is exemplified in the list of finalists revealed today who...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Festival of Languages will be returning this September beginning on the 30th. Come join us in celebrating languages! Please find more details including the full programme of events that are open to the public at the following link: festivaloflanguages.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Professor Will Fowler is giving the plenary lecture “Violencia y política en México durante el siglo XIX” at the conference “La guerra por otros medios: política, revolución y gobernanza en el México del siglo XIX”, held at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, on Thurs 20 August 9am CST/4pm BST

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Congratulations to our colleagues who have been promoted with effect from 1 December 2026: Laura Albertini to Lecturer, Marine Ganofsky to Senior Lecturer, and Eleni Kefala to Professor 🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Congratulations to all our colleagues&students on excellent results in the National Student Survey 2026, with Arabic&Persian #1 in the UK (3rd year running), Spanish #2 UK (#1 in Scotland); German #3 UK (#1 Scotland); Chinese #4 UK (#1 Scotland), & Russian #4 UK (#2 Scotland).

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Read about the 16th EURAMAL: Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Read about our recent Byre World Insights – ‘Queer Tales: Reenacting Women’s Lives’ event here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Congratulations to all our students who graduated this Wed 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Highlights from the highly successful 16th EURAMAL Conference: more than 100 participants from Europe, the Arab world, and beyond, alongside special events featuring renowned writers & poets Nouri al-Jarrah, Ghayath Almadhoun, Sinan antoon, Eleni Kefala, David Herd, & Dima Wannous.

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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Congratulations to all our @sta-modlangs.bsky.social students graduating on Wednesday 1 July 🎓💫

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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Spent an excellent afternoon at the launch of the @sahavoice.bsky.social report on ‘Languages in a Global Scotland’ @royalsoced.bsky.social Glad to have made a small contribution to such an important report led by Catherine O’Leary @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Read about our School's success in the Complete University Guide 2027: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu... #studylanguages

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📚🌍30 Sep–2 Oct 2026 our Festival of Languages is back for three days of inspiring events celebrating languages, cultures, literature, translation, & multilingual creativity. Access our exciting programme here: festivaloflanguages.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/festival-pro... #ByreTheatre #FestivalOfLanguages

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🎉🎉🎉We are happy to share with you that the four subjects our School has listed in the Complete University Guide @compuniguide are now all in the top 5 in the UK: French and Italian 2nd, German 3rd, and Spanish 5th. You can find more here: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 01/06/2026

Through the lenses of the histories of magic and sexuality, Marine Ganofsky’s book will be the first to examine how the Enlightenment reimagined erotic desire as secular enchantment. @sta-modlangs.bsky.social Read in our latest newsletter: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

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Enchanté! Libertines and the magic of desire in eighteenth-century French fiction

Through the lenses of the histories of magic and sexuality, Marine Ganofsky’s book will be the first to examine how the Enlightenment reimagined erotic desire as secular enchantment

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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

6 days left to apply 👇

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The ‘Lost Detectives’ podcast series is back! In Ep. 8, Claire Whitehead talks to Dr Grace Docherty about the depiction of non-human things in examples of crime fiction from the late imperial era in Russia. lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/podcasts/ soundcloud.com/university-o...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

As part of the Making Waves Lecture Series, the Development team invites you to our next event with Dr Niall Sreenan from the School of Modern Languages. More here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/makin...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We are hiring an Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Modern Languages/Comparative Literature (Education Focused), a fixed-term position for one year to cover a period of staff leave. Applications must be submitted by 8 June 2026. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Congratulations to our former visiting PhD scholar in Digital Humanities Amina El Ganadi (Uni of Modena & Reggio Emilia), with succesful defense of her PhD. During her stay here, she was supervised by Dr Orhan Elmaz, who continued as her co-supervisor with Prof Fabrizio D’Avenia.

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Join us on Mon for the 2nd German-Austrian Quiz Night! 🇩🇪🇦🇹 Test your knowledge, enjoy a fun evening, and win exciting prizes from the OeAD, DAAD, & Goethe-Institut Glasgow. 🗓 12 May🕖 7 PM📍 School 1. Snacks&drinks provided by the Austrian Cultural Forum London. Don’t miss it!

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Carnegie Education Fund has launched a new grant scheme to help more people in Scotland access postgraduate study. The application pedriod for the 2026-27 academic year opened 1 May 2026. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Thanks to Adrienne Angelo for the generous review of Nsah Mala’s and my co-ed @livunipress.bsky.social volume, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, in the latest issue of French Studies @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/arti...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Applications are now being accepted for the British Spanish Society 2026 postgraduate scholarships. Applicants must be British or Spanish nationals who are/will be engaged in university postgraduate study (Masters&doctoral) in the UK or Spain. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We were delighted to host Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the best-known Latin American authors today, as our Writer in Residence this semester. Thank you to our Dr Liliana Chávez Díaz for arranging this residency. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Nice to read about our Prof Will Fowler In the Loop: staffnews.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/05/01/p...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Our Dr Marine Ganofsky, is among the eight St Andrews Academics who have been awarded Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for the Academic Year 2026-27, for her project ‘Enchanté! Libertines and the magic of desire in eighteenth-century French fiction’: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Our honorary professor Janet Watson published her co-authored book, Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabic. Volume 2: Comparative Lexicon of Fish and Other Marine Species with Open Book publishers. More here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Join us in congratulating our PhD student Tilly Lyons who will spend the autumn semester 26-27 at the British School at Rome having won the very competitive Rome Award for postdoctoral research. 🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Join us in congratulating our former PhD student, Carlotta Mora who has accepted a tenure-track position in Italian at UC Berkeley.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Congratulations to our Dr Yuhui Liao who has been awarded a Global Partnerships Travel Grant to support collaborative activities with National Tsing Hua University and National Taiwan University. 🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Congratulations to our Dr Zheng Li who has been awarded an Advance HE Fellowship (FHEA). 🎉🎉🎉

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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You are very welcome to join our free online conference on Belgium’s colonial Métis: Friday 15 May 11.00 BST drive.google.com/file/d/1UInQ... @jdmcinally.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Congratulations to our Juan Hoyos won an Inclusive Teaching Award for SP4003/SP4004 in the Students’ Association teaching awards. 🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Congratulations to our Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger and Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos who each received an honourable mention in the Students’ Association teaching awards in the category of Outstanding Partnership in Academic Representation. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Congratulations to our Dr Marine Ganofsky won a British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies teaching prize for her module FR4125: The Age of Enlightenment: An Age of Enchantment? 🎉🎉🎉

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our second teaching prize, Marine Ganofsky. Her #interdisciplinary course invites students to discover 18thC France's fascination with #magic, imagination, & wonder, challenging the idea that the Enlightenment disenchanted the world. #skystorians 🗃️

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Our Prof Derek Duncan’s end of project exhibition, Incontri: a Scots Italian Photographic Archive is now showing at the Institute of Italian Culture in Edinburgh (until 15 May). More here: iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Our final AUSTRO PASS screening, Far From Being Lipizzans (2025), explores questions of identity, belonging, & the social boundaries behind a sense of “we”. Drawing on director Olga Kosanović’s personal experience, the film offers a thoughtful reflection on citizenship and inclusion. Don’t miss it!

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In this month’s Saints Spotlight, our Professor Nicki Hitchcott discusses her current research project that looks to fill the gaps in Belgian imperial history through the study of colonial archives: alumni.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/13/s...

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