Our first Byre World event at Byre Theatre tomorrow 23 Sep 6pm: 'Translating Mothersland', where novelist Shahzoda Samarqandi & translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega join Dr Sarah Gear to explore translation’s role in amplifying Central Asian voices. Book 👉 byretheatre.com/shows/transl...

@uniofstandrews.bsky.social has been ranked 1st in the UK for French studies by the The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, reflecting the excellence of language & cultural studies offered by the Department of French at the School of Modern Languages: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mod.../news/...

The Academic Skills Workshops (managed by IELLI) are online/in-person sessions run by Postgraduate Research Students for undergraduate students. Each workshop aims to develop a specific academic skill through interactive activities. Self-enroll here: moody.st-andrews.ac.uk/moodle/cours...

Table of contents: Arabic Linguistics 1 / 1 (2025) @johnbenjamins.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social linguistlist.org/issues/36/27...

Join us for two special screenings at the Bell Pettigrew Museum! Archive of the Future : A film about Vienna’s Natural History Museum Sep 24, 18:00 Book here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/film-... Dead Birds Flying High Oc 1, 18:00 Entry free. Book here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/film-...

Wed, 8 Oct, 4pm in the Hebdomadar’s Room, this semester's first 18th-century studies seminar will feature Dr Lenia Kouneni (School of Art History), with a paper entitled 'Between Antiquity & Colonialism: James Tassie’s Medallion Portrait of Lieutenant-General Robert Melville”.

Read about Masters degrees with us here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

This was a brilliant dissertation. Bravo Sadie!

@uniofstandrews.bsky.social social has been ranked 1st in Scotland & 2nd in the UK for languages&linguistics by the Guardian University Guide 2026, reflecting the excellence of our language/cultural/literature studies. Congrats to all our students&colleagues: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Congratulations to our former student Sadie Golen who has won the Association the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (@asmcf.bysky.social) Douglas Johnson Memorial Essay Prize. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Proud that @sta-modlangs.bsky.social is ranked #2 in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 💫

'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' by Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty has also been popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BodofEv @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @lostdetectives.bsky.social

Join the Persian Film Screening and Discussion: جاده خاکی (Hit the Road, 2021, dir. Panah Panahi) Thu 11 Sep 3-5.30pm UCO School 1 . In Persian with English Subtitles. The film will be introduced and discussed by Dr Saeed Talajooy. All Welcome!

Don't miss tomorrow's film screening: The IDOL, 6pm School 2. details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-i...

Issue 1:1 of the journal Arabic Linguistics is now available online. Our Dr Uri Horesh is one the editors of the journal. The issue is available here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

The School of Modern Languages and The ByreTheatre are pleased to announce the return of Byre World - an annual series of talks, workshops, and performances bringing the School's global cultural studies research to the local community. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Join us in welcoming our new BA International Fellow Adeline Heck, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Ilona Jurkonyte, and Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow Abi Karas.

Welcome to our new colleagues, Teaching Assistants Mario Curto #Spanish, Regina Lahm #German, Thomas Gervais & William Lewer #French, Associate Lecturers Jacqueline Rattray #Spanish & #CompLit, Sarah Gear & Anna Maslenova #Russian, & Lecturers Yishan Jiang & Zheng Li #Chinese.

Next week! Come and join us. Tickets are free 👇

Follow Prof Will Fowler's paper “En busca del tiempo perdido: la Guerra de Tres Años y los conservadores en la época de la Reforma” today Wed 3 Sep 5pm UK time (10am in Mexico): www.youtube.com/@institutomo...; www.facebook.com/ciesas.oficial; www.youtube.com/@CanalINEHRM

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Miek Zwamborn & Derek Duncan’s volume, Of Sea and Sod: Echoes of the Arandora Star was published by Matecznick Press, with contributions from Viktoriia Gravina, Elise Hugueny-Léger, Robin MacKenzie & Elodie Laügt, supported by School of Irish Learning, University College Cork.

Thu 11 Sep 6pm in UCO School 2, our Department of Arabic&Persian & the Department of Film Studies (PAFS) invite you to watch The Idol (Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine 2015, Arabic with English subtitles) as part of Orientation Week, introduced by Dr Viviane Saglier & Dr Kirill Dmitriev.

Congratulations to our Uri Horesh who received an award from the InFrame Culture Catalyst Fund for a project entitled, ‘Reframing KEI: Fostering a Culture of Care, Critical Thinking and Change through Decolonial Perspectives’ with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh.🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations to our Dr David Evans who supported a successful application for a BA International Fellowship by Adeline Heck. 🎉🎉🎉

We look forward to welcoming undergraduate and postgraduate students joining our School in September 2025. Here you can find detailed information you need about our orientation events: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

A new network of academics in Scotland interested in Language and Society has recently been formed, now with profiles on Bluesky and LinkedIn: bsky.app/profile/lang... www.linkedin.com/groups/11827...

Now we have a dedicated St Andrews website for the EURAMAL 2026 conference, 'Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature'. The deadline to submit abstracts is 1 September, i.e. in one week: euramal2026.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Professor Will Fowler’s biography of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico – Maximiliano – has just been published in Mexico by Crítica (Planeta) in its new series dedicated to the villains of Mexican History (“los malos de la historia”): www.planetadelibros.com.mx/libro-maximi...

We are inviting applications for the position of Office Coordinator. Details here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Seven projects from @uniofstandrews.bsky.social will be funded by the RSE Research Awards Programme, including the project by our Prof Nicki Hitchcott, with collaborator Dr Alice Karekezi, University of Rwanda: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...

We warmly welcome applications to @sta-modlangs.bsky.social for BA Postdoc Fellowships. More info here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu... Deadline 1 Sept.

Read the new article in Francosphères co-written by Elise Hugueny-Leger and Elodie Laugt! It's open access and available here: doi.org/10.3828/fran...

Congratulations to Laura Albertini and Damiano Benvegnu on their Golden Dandelion awards: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Congratulations to colleagues on their academic promotions: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Join François d’Adesky and our Nicki Hitchcott at @royalsoced.bsky.social's Curious festival in Edinburgh on 9 September. Tickets are free. ‘Lost mothers of the Belgian empire’s mixed-race children’: rse.org.uk/event/lost-m...

Congratulations to Laura Albertini who has been awarded the University’s Golden Dandelion Prize for excellence in education for sustainable development, and Damiano Benvegnu who received a Golden Dandelion award commending the innovation of his sustainability teaching.

Congratulations to Nathalie Stummer who has been awarded an Advance HE Fellowship (FHEA).

Last week Julia Prest & disability-led Birds of Paradise Theatre Company workshoped a new adaptation of the 18th-century ableist opera, Le Cadi dupé by Monsigny & Lemonnier, prepared by Julia, Emily Kemp & students on the Translating French Opera module: boptheatre.co.uk

Delighted that @jdmcinally.bsky.social and I are taking our event with the wonderful François d’Adesky to Edinburgh on 9 September as part of @royalsoced.bsky.social’s ‘Curious’ festival. Tickets are free. @sta-modlangs.bsky.social rse.org.uk/event/lost-m...

Warmest congratulations to our colleagues promoted this year, Ana Barazal Barreira to Lecturer, Colette Lawson to Senior Lecturer, and Claire Whitehead to Professor. 🥳🥳🥳 The photo is from this year's summer graduation!

Delighted to have won a @royalsoced.bsky.social collaborative award for the colonial métis project with @jdmcinally.bsky.social and Alice Karekezi @sta-modlangs.bsky.social rse.org.uk/rse-awards-o...

Rethinking the Sixties with the international conference 'Tis Sixty Years Since' and Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Forum for Modern Languages Studies this week at Parliament Hall @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

12 July at Aura Space in Cairo Dr Areeg Ibrahim of Helwan University and our Dr Tiran Manucharyan organised a small symposium devoted to Egyptian women playwrights, joined by colleagues from Cairo and Helwan Universities.

Read about success in National Student Survey 2025 here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

During the 34th International Conference on Virginia Woolf @SussexUni Dr Liliana Chavez Diaz (#Spanish) discussed tdiscussed #VirginiaWoolf & #VictoriaOcampo's transnational literary relationship & went to Monk’s House to confirm the South American butterflies🦋Ocampo gave to Woolf are still there!

We warmly welcome applications for BA early career postdoctoral fellowships in #Arabic, #Chinese, #French, #German, #Italian, #Persian, #Spanish, #Russian, and #CompLit. Info on how to apply through @sta-modlangs.bsky.social available here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

The inaugural issue of Arabic Linguistics (editors: Enam Al-Wer, Lina Choueiri, and Uri Horesh) is soon to be published. Stay tuned. @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

Congratulations to all our colleagues and students on excellent results in the National Student Survey 2025. Special congratulations to Arabic and Persian (#1 in UK 2nd year running), Russian (now #1 in UK), and CompLit (highest satisfaction score in the University at 95.1%).🎉🎉

Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature (16th EURAMAL Conference, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). Don't miss the deadline 1 Sep 2025! www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Join us in congratulating Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger, who was awarded a CELPiE travel award earlier this year. You can read the report of the conference which which Dr Hugueny-Léger attanded thanks to this award here: celpie.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/06/20/w...