An exciting workshop soon, focused on performing arts & creative skills, developed by Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos with our students, Ciara Rooney & Emily Hadfield. Open to everyone in our Uni (18+) but with limited spaces. Slide for more details & make sure you secure your spot!

Wed 11 Feb 7:30pm don't miss Prof Will Fowler's public lecture on 'Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (1864-67): Hero or villain?' to the Perthshire Society of Natural Science in the Soutar Theatre at the AK Bell Library, 17 York Place, Perth PH2 8EP www.psns.org.uk/archaeologic...

Wed 25 Feb 12-3pm in Old Burgh School join the workshop, Critical Games: Back to life: play, risk&the self in academic writing, for PhD researchers in humanities&social sciences, led by Dr Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), with our Dr Niall Sreenan. Sign up here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/criti...

Wed 18 Feb 1pm in United College, UCO:30, join us for Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory with Dr Kamila Oles. Deatils here events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/brown...

Our PhD student Katherine Stratton has successfully defended her thesis: Dexterous Destriers: The Literal and Figurative Horse as Educator in Early Modern France, 1500-1625. Heartiest congratulations to Katherine & her supervisors, Drs Emma Herdman & Claudia Rossignoli! 🎉🎉🎉

Tue 17 Feb 2pm to 3.30pm, Lower College Hall, St Salvator's Quad, Masters Degree Academic Fair, for our undegrads, who are thinking about what to do after graduation. Come along to the postgrad taught Academic Fair to learn about our Masters programmes: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Join us to remember men, women & children killed in recent weeks during anti-government protests in Iran. A vigil, organised by colleagues in the Schools of History and Modern Languages, will be held in the Buchanan Lecture Theatre on Wed 11 Feb from 4pm: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/1h...

Read In the Loop about our Dr Eleni Kefala's Double poetry win: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/ox...

Fri 6 Feb 6pm in School 3, St Salvator's Quad, please join Dr Paul Flaig from the Department of Film Studies for a special free screening of G W Pabst's silent masterpiece of 1929, Pandora's Box, starring the iconic Louise Brooks: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/scree...

Join us in congratulating our Dr Tom Smith who has been awarded a Leibniz Summer Fellowship at the Leibniz Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam for his project on Queer Turkish-German creativity around Berlin’s clubs in the 1990s.🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations to our PhD student, Tilly Lyons, who has been awarded the 2025 Society for Italian Studies' EDI Excellence Award for her workshop series 'Cross-Campus Conversations', which facilitated interdisciplinary dialogues on race and racialisation. 🎉🎉🎉

You can read our Dr Gavin Bowd's interview with French website, L'Avenue litteraire here: gmsavenue.com/royaume-uni-...

Congratulations to Dr Damiano Benvegnu who has been appointed Senior Editor of The Italianist. 🎉🎉🎉

Wed 4 Feb 6pm at @ByreTheatre, join us on a moving and joyful journey across the Middle East through stories, poetry, music, and dance: The Olive and the Oak: A Meeting of East and West through Stories, Dance, and Music - Pay as you can: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-o...

Fri 30 Jan 3pm in School III, St Salvator's Quad, Daughters of Donbas, led by the Ukrainian human rights activist, Marichka, will be performing in St Andrews as part of the group's Songs of Stolen Children tour. Finde more here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/songs...

Dr Niall Sreenan, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at our School, spoke with Barbara Burns about his new book - Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Byre World 2025-26 continues Tuesday 27 January 2026 with East German Cinema and the Holocaust. Join us for a screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne / Stars (PG). The film will be shown in German with English subtitles: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Congratulations, Niall. A fascinating topic!

Here you can find a list of volumes published by colleagues at our school: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Read our Dr Niall Sreenan's interview about his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction, which has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

The application period for the R&A Ransome Scholarships closes 4 Feb. 3 scholarships are available for Canada, Mexico & the USA to begin a postgrad master’s in Sep 2026, including our MLitt in CompLit & MLitt in Global Languages, Literatures&Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

'Struggling since 1859' Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr Niall Sreenan’s monograph, Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction, has now been published and is available for purchase here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Byre World is back for the new semester, continuing the annual series of talks, workshops, and performances bringing the School of Modern Languages' global cultural studies research to the local community. Read about our upcoming events here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Tue 27 Jan 6pm at Byre Theatre join this semester's first Byre World event: the screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne, followed by a Q&A with our Prof Sean Allan & Elizabeth Ward of the University of Leipzig and author of East German Film and the Holocaust: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/east-...

Read the piece about the academics and students in Iran, for which our Saeed Talajooy was interviews: Iranian scholars fear tougher clampdown as protests spread | Times Higher Education (THE): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/iranian...

Join our c19c Research Seminars Seminars on Wednesdays 1-2pm, United College Room 31.

Dr Saeed Talajooy's piece In Memoriam of Bahram Beyzaie (26 December 1938- 26 December 2025): www.iranicaonline.org/announcement...

Find out about our University's scholarships for 2026 entry which are open to School of Modern Languages' PhD applicants. Apply by 21 January 2026: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

A bit late, but here’s a photo of me introducing the first session of the @langsocscot.bsky.social event in Edinburgh in November. Photo stolen from @drsarahhopkyns.bsky.social’s LinkedIn (sorry, Sarah, and thanks!) @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

Applications are now being accepted for the St Leonard's College Widening Access Scholarship, open to applicants looking to start a doctoral (PhD) degree in the 2026-27 academic year in any subject, including with the School of Modern Languages. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

You can access the list of doctoral scholarships in the School of Modern Languages here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Congrats to our Dr Claudia Rossignoli for being awarded a Bonn-St Andrews Joint Education Seed Funding for her project, ‘Collaborative curriculum development, including a COIL module design and a hybrid summer school’ in collaboration with Dr Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn.

Congratulations to our Dr Eleni Kefala who has been awarded a 3-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her project, ‘Deserts of Modernity: Nature and History in 19th-Century Patagonia and Pampa’.

Congratulations to Damiano Benvegnu & Bettina Bildhauer have been awarded a St Leonard’s College World Leading Supervisor-led PhD Scholarship to bring 2 funded PGR students to the School. See the details in the links below: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a... www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Two scholarships are available to Palestinian applicants looking to start a postgraduate Masters degree in Sep 2026, including our Masters in Comparative Literature & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures, and & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

We are pleased to offer a funded doctoral scholarship - How to write a global success before print: The paradigmatic case of the Seven Sages of Rome/Sinbad narrative, to start in the 2026-27 academic year, supervised by Professor Bettina Bildhauer: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

The Schools of Modern Languages & Computer Science offer a funded doctoral scholarship - Designing Techno-Cultural Ecologies: Prototyping Critical & Creative Interactions with Biodiversity, to start in the 2026-27 academic year: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Apply for the St Andrews - GREAT Scholarships, open to prospective Masters students from France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico & Spain through our Masters in Comparative Literature & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures, & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Apply for the position of Reader or Professor in our Department of Chinese. You must have an international research reputation in Chinese language, literary, & cultural studies. Closing Date: 19 January 2026. Read the details in Times Higher: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

The University offers a 15% discount on postgrad tuition fees to students who've graduated or are eligible to graduate from St Andrews, available if you apply for postgrad programmes here, including postgrad Masters&research degrees in our School: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

A big thank you to Hannah Kaip, Library, Science, Education & Dance Project Manager at the Austrian Cultural Forum London, who visited us a few weeks ago! Our German students had the chance to ask her questions about her role and the work of the ACF London.

Congratulations to Dr Eleni Kefala, Senior Lecturer in our Department of Spanish, who has been awarded the poetry prize at this year's Cyprus State Literary Competition for her 2024 poetry collection, Direct Orient, published by Perispomeni Publications: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Colleagues can now apply for free places on selected online Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) programmes. Three programmes are starting in January, with an application closing date of 9 January 2026, including Global Digital Humanities (Jan 2026 intake): intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/fi...

We celebrated the 60th anniversary of the journal Forum for Modern Language Studies . Founded by Prof Roy Owen in 1965, Forum is an internationally renowned peer reviewed journal, edited by colleagues from our School & the School of English: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/aj...

Once again congratulations to our Dr Laura ALbertini who has won the 2025 Golden Dandelion Prize for the module IT3001 Italian Language 1 which she coordinates: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Lorna Milne, a former Master at St Andrews, Professor Emerita in French, and President of the Franco-Scottish Society, has made a passionate call for an urgent review of language teaching in Scottish schools. You can read Prof Milne’s opinion piece: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Last Friday, University of St Andrews hosted the Golden Dandelion Awards, which recognise excellence in education for sustainable development. This year’s winner is our colleague Dr Laura Albertinifor the module IT3001 Italian Language 1: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/yk...

Masters Scholarships in the School of Modern Languages - Apply Now: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...