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...

Join us for our upcoming Byre World event "Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted" at Byre Theatre. Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/queer...

Deadline this Friday 👇

Pleased to be featured in a Saints spotlight @sta-modlangs.bsky.social alumni.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/13/s...

Professor Will Fowler is giving a seminar today Monday 13th of April online (5-7pm UK-time) to history students from the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) (Acatlán campus) of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).

Join us this Monday for the second screening of our Austro Cinema series with Favoriten by Ruth Beckermann. Follow a group of pupils and their teacher over three years in a diverse Vienna classroom, exploring identity, migration, and everyday life. Don’t miss it! @acf_london

Starting tomorrow, the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh will be hosting a free exhibition by Incontri: A Scots Italian Photographic Archive. Come along from 9 April to 15 May and have a look! #HES #HESsupported

Join us this Thursday for the first screening of our Austro Cinema series with 27 Storeys: Alterlaa Forever. Discover the story behind the world-famous Wohnpark Alterlaa and dive into its unique history. Don’t miss it!

On 27 Mar final-year student Gregg Clark & Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger attended the Choix Goncourt UK ceremony at the French Institute & the French Embassy in London. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Permanent vacancy available from September 2026 in our Department of Italian. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

A new vacancy for the position of Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies. This is a fixed-term position three years (September 2026 to August 2029) to cover a period of staff leave. Read the details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Job alert! We are hiring! Permanent Lectureship in #Italian @sta-modlangs.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA010/l...

3-year Lectureship in Spanish and Latin American Studies @sta-modlangs.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA034/l...

We are inviting applications for the position of Associate Lecturer in Italian (Education Focused). This is a fixed-term position for one semester (September 2026 to January 2027). Details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

14 Apr 1pm join the online guest lecture 'Accents that disappear, accents that stick', by Dr Tsung-Lun Alan Wan (Assistant Prof in Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages&Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan). Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/guest...

Read Evie Reilly's (Employability and Careers Student Rep) article a series of teaching events, hosted by our school, including two public talks and a workshop led by Teacher-Trainer Sara Davidson from Oundle School, Northamptonshire: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

St Andrews has climbed 16 places for Modern Languages in the 2026 QS World University Subject Rankings, 63rd globally for Modern Languages and 11th in the UK. Congratulations to all our colleagues and students. Read more here www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Congratulations to Runyuan Bai who has passed her PhD entitled ‘Gender Writing & The One-Child Policy in Chinese Children's Literature, 1993-2018’. This is the 1st successful PhD in Chinese Studies at St Andrews. Congratulations also to her supervisors, Pamela Hunt&Mary Orr.

Dr Humberto Morales Moreno, from the BUAP (Puebla, Mexico), will be addressing our c19c Research Centre tomorrow, here in St Andrews.

Congratulations to Viktoriia Grivina who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Apocalyptic Unlearning: Vulnerable Legacies and Cultural Reimaginings in Wartime Kharkiv, Ukraine (2022-2024)’. Congratulations also to her supervisors, Profs Victoria Donovan & Methe High.

Happy Nowruz نوروز and thanks to Dr Parmis Mozafari who organised the Nowruz display in the Buchanan Building! Celebrated on the first day of spring, around March 20, it masrks the beginning of the new year in the Iranian solar calendar. More here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

We’re hiring! Ten-month temporary Associate Lectureship in French @sta-modlangs.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY158/a...

Fri 27 Mar 4pm in ARB: 317 – ARTS SEMINAR 7 join Dr Paul Leworthy (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Newcastle University) for the Guest Lecture, Screening and Intervening: Documenting and Doing Memory Work in Das deutsche Volk. More here: cims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/seminar-seri...

Join our brilliant team! We invite applications for the position of Associate Lecturer in French (Education Focused). This is a fixed-term position for ten months to cover a period of staff leave. Details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Join the events with our Writer in Residence Cristina Rivera Garza, one of the most important Mexican American & Latin American authors, winner of 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her (auto)biographical work Liliana's Invincible Summer. A Sister's Search for Justice (more on the poster).

Carol Adlam's graphic novel 'The Russian Detective' (Penguin/Jonathan Cape, 2024) has been shortlisted in the V&A Illustration Awards 2026. For the novel's research context see Adlam & Claire Whitehead’s article 'Lost Detectives: Intermedial Adaptations’: academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...

FYI: Online MSc Scholarships in Global Digital Humanities

🎭Free acting&creation workshop on women's diversity, led by Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos, Lecturer in Spanish Studies, Ciara Rooney, ModLangs School President, & Emily Hadfield, Spanish Student Convenor. No experience is required. Open to everyone 18+. Use the QR code to sign up!

Nice to see the interview with our Dr Liliana Chavez Diaz In the Loop. Read here: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/wt...

Monday 16 March 4pm, UCO: School II, join the Guest Lecture with Prof Kateřina Králová (Charles University in Prague and the IE Czech Academy of Sciences): Homecoming, Identities and Memory of the Holocaust Survivors and Greece. Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/guest...

Our third Cross-cultural c19th Century Research Centre seminar of the semester is TOMORROW at 1pm in QUAD/UNITED COLLEGE 31., with DR GREG KERR (Glasgow): ‘Print, type and utopian thought in nineteenth-century France: writing at the margins’!

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, edited by Nsah Mala and Nicki Hitchcott, is highlighted by @unesco-bridges.bsky.social as part of its publications spotlight. Discover more about the book ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243144

18 March 1:15pm at Younger Hall, Stewart Room, we invite our students to the talk by Chih-Hua Ding, Director General of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK, Language as a tool, diplomacy as a system: Rethinking career pathways for our graduates: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/langu...

Cultural Identity&Memory Studies Institute's next Brown Bag Talk will be held by Lydia Maria Roth (School of IR), 11 March 2pm, UCO: 30: “We created a new memory culture”: Remembering the victims of right-wing terror in Hanau. Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/brown...

Find the information about the upcoming Employability Event for our students on 11 March 4-6pm. This event has been convened by the Student Representative for Employability and Careers, and the Employability Officer. All staff are welcome to attend!

Please click below for a LinkedIn post with the Call for Papers for the online conference I am organising with @nickihitchcott.bsky.social and Alice Karekezi on 'Belgium's Colonial Métis: Histories and Legacies'. It will take place on Friday 15 May 2026. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Dr Eleni Kefala's Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship project “Deserts of Modernity: Nature and History in 19th-Century Pampa and Patagonia” is featured as the cover article in the latest Leverhulme Trust Newsletter (Feb 2026)–more on the project on p. 8: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

Dame Anne Pringle, educated at St Andrews where she gained an MA Hons in French and German in 1977, has been elected to serve as the new Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Read more here: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/dame...

Delighted that our new Chancellor @uniofstandrews.bsky.social is not only the first woman Chancellor but also a graduate of #French and #German from our School @sta-modlangs.bsky.social news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/dame...

Dame Anne Pringle is also a graduate of #French and #German from @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

Read the interview (in Arabic) with our PhD student Natheir Malkaw in Jadaliyya about his short story collection ʻIyādat al-Adab al-Radīʼ - عيادة الأدب الرديء (The Clinic for inferior literature): www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4709...

TOMORROW Wed 18 Feb at 1pm in QUAD/UNITED COLLEGE 31 join DR NIALL SREENAN (Comparative Literature) for his seminar: ‘Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel’!

Read about the exciting workshop on Reenacting Women’s Lives - Queer Acting and Creation Workshop here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Read about the celebration of Lunar New Year in our school: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Claire Whitehead's new episode of the ‘Lost Detectives’ podcast series with Maitrayee Roychoudhury, Assistant Prof at the Uni of Delhi & PhD student in @standrewsenglish.bsky.social at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, here: lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/podcasts/ or: soundcloud.com/university-o...

18 Feb 1pm in UCO:30 join the Cultural Identity&Memory Studies Institute for Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass&Stone, The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective&Mediated Memory with Kamila Oles: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/brown...

Join 'How did We Get Here? Understanding Iran's January 2026 Protests' Seminar Time and Venue: 16.00- 17.30, Wed 18 Feb in School V Speakers: Prof. Ali Ansari, Dr Randjbar-Daemi, Dr Talajooy For video links and more info: Please contact Hannah Hassani (hh231) All Welcome

St Andrews is 35th in the Arts & Humanities World University Rankings 2026 published by Times Higher. Featuring over 800 universities from 74 countries, the ranking includes Modern Languages, Art History, Classics, English, History, Philosophy, & Divinity: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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...