School of Modern Languages ranked amongst the top 100 in the world
School of Modern Languages ranked amongst the top 100 in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023
School news
UUKi grant for Victoria Donovan and Emily Finer
Victoria Donovan and Emily Finer from the Department of Russian have been awarded £198,162 through the UUKi UK-Ukraine twinning grant scheme
Professor Lorna Milne has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The School of Modern Languages wishes to congratulate Professor Lorna Milne of the Department of French, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Saeed Talajooy's book, The One Thousand and First Night, commended by BBC Persian
Saeed Talajooy’s translation and analysis book, The One Thousand and First Night, has been selected by BBC Persian as one of the ten important books published in the last Iranian year 1401 (20 March 2022- 19 March 2023).
Teaching award for Pauline Souleau
Congratulations to Pauline Souleau in the Department of French, who has been awarded one of five University Teaching Excellence Awards
Academic vacancies in the School of Modern Languages
The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews is recruiting for a number of academic vacancies
The English Goethe Society prize for Andrew Cusack
Andrew Cusack has won the 2022 prize of the English Goethe Society for his article ‘Heinrich Laube's European Moment’
Darya Tsymbalyuk has been awarded the Principal's Medal
School's PhD graduate Darya Tsymbalyuk has been awarded the Principal’s Medal. This Medal is awarded to students who have displayed exceptional endeavour and achievement during their time at St Andrews.
AHRC-DFG grant for Bettina Bildhauer
Bettina Bildhauer has won an AHRC-DFG grant for project “The Seven Sages of Rome: editing and reappraising a forgotten premodern classic from global and gendered perspectives"
Bettina Bildhauer on BBC Radio 4
Sarah Bowden (KCL), Mark Chinca (Cambridge) and Bettina Bildhauer spoke with host Melvyn Bragg about The Nibelungenlied, a twelfth-century German epic full of blood, violence, fantasy and bleakness.
