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

📚🌍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

🎉🎉🎉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...

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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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...

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...

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...

We’re hiring! @sta-modlangs.bsky.social www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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.

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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. 🎉🎉🎉

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

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. 🎉🎉🎉

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

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

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

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. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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? 🎉🎉🎉

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 🗃️

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...

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!

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...