RT @univofstandrews: Come to the Postgraduate Academic Fayre to explore the diverse selection of Masters programmes at St Andrews. 🗓️ Tue…

Don't miss this event! Thu 20 Feb 5pm in UCO 30, Dr Rebecca Walker (TCD) in conversation with Dr Carlotta Moro (Exeter). The speakers - discus Rebecca Walker's recent monograph, ‘The Sense of Fracture in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante'. More here:

RT @RwandanSOChange: Next week! Come and listen to François d’Adesky’s story 👇⁦@ByreWorld⁩ ⁦@ByreTheatre⁩ ⁦@StAModLangs⁩ ⁦@mcinally_d⁩ htt…

Our Festival of Languages organised by Dr Gavin Bowd in October 2024 was such a huge success that we have decided to run it biennially. More news from Dr Bowd and the festival of 2026 coming soon:

You can listen to Professor Will Fowler talk about Santa Anna in the latest episode of The Alamo podcast:

Fri 28 Feb 4pm in Arts Building, ARB 317 – Arts Seminar 7, join us the talk' Making a State Secret into Industrial Heritage: Third Front Museums and Creative Parks in Urban Guizhou' by Dr Paul Kendall @UniWestminster. Please contact Dr Fei Huang (fh91@) to book your place.

Another exciting @ByreWorld event, Mothers of the Belgian Empire’s Stolen Children, 12 Feb at @ByreTheatre. Open to all, free entry - but places must be reserved in advance, detailes here:

Did you know that we offer a funded scholarship for Sep 2025 entry to one of our two full-time Masters degrees, open to UK-domiciled applicants from groups under-represented in the School and who can demonstrate academic excellence? Read more here:

RT @GlobalOfficeStA: Are you an academic looking to visit @univofstandrews, collaborate on research, and connect with our vibrant academic…

Our first c19c seminar of the semester is NEXT WEDNESDAY 5 February at 1pm. PLEASE NOTE IT WILL BE ON TEAMS, with DR SARAH K. M. RODRÍGUEZ (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), on ‘Sovereignty, Territoriality, and the Path to Democracy in 19th Century North America’.

6 Feb 6pm in UCO:54 & on Teams, join the reading&discussion of 'i dream of the absinthium field', a publication by Fundacja Ziemniakii with words&images by Kateryna Rudenko, Iryna Zamuruieva & Dalia Zhdanovskyy, moderated by Dr Emily Finer. More here:

RT @DrIanCollen: I always love coming back to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (where I did my undergrad 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 @StAModLangs ). Thanks to @BCScotland I get…

Congratulations to Prof Julia Prest who will be invited Visiting Professor at Bordeaux Montaigne University in June 2025.🎉🎉🎉

You can now access Dr Fabio Caiani's most recent Open Access publication, ‘Satanwebs and the Torch Bearer: Reading Samīr Naqqāsh’s Unreadable Vernacular Novel’, Journal of Arabic Literature, October 2024, available at

Our the first event of the 18th-Century Society will take place on Wed, 12 Feb, 4pm in the Hebdomadar’s Room. We are pleased to welcome Mr. Michael Fraser (School of History), who will present his work in a paper entitled ‘The Public Face of the Argathelian Regime, 1705–1733’.

Congratulations to Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger has been elected Honorary Secretary of the Society for French Studies with effect from July 2025. 👋👋👋

Don't miss this wonderful event. Tue 29 April 7:30pm Prof Victoria Donovan will give a book talk at @ToppingsStA on her book 'Life in Spite of Everything'. You can book tickets with a copy of the book included in the price here:

RT @GlobalOfficeStA: 📢Apply now 🌏Global Doctoral Scholarship with @UniBonn in @StAModLangs Joint PhD opportunity with tuition fee and stip…

School of Modern Languages, @univofstandrews, is now on BlueSky. Please follow us for updates from our staff and students:

Please join us in welcoming our new colleagues, Liesel Aretz who joined the PS team as Administrator and Vanessa Santoro who joined us as Istituto Italiano di Cultura Teaching Assistant in Italian.