Modern Languages at St Andrews

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/art…

The Russian Detective arises out of the 'Lost Detectives’ adaptation project run by Professor Claire Whitehead on which Carol was the contributing artist: lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

The awards, held biennially, are the UK’s leading industry awards for illustration and The Russian Detective is on a shortlist of ten in the 'Adult Fiction' category: #slideshow=4968671&slide=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vam.ac.uk/info/va-illust…

Image © Carol Adlam, The Russian Detective, 2024

FYI: Online MSc Scholarships in Global Digital Humanities: The Global Digital Humanities programme at the University of St Andrews offers a flexible, fully online postgraduate route for students interested in the relationship between technology,… dlvr.it/TRSCW9

Joining #WomensDay week

🎭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/wtp4…

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-l…

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’!

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/languag…

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-b…

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 CFP for the online conference I am organising with @RwandanSOChange and Alice Karekezi on 'Belgium's Colonial Métis: Histories and Legacies' taking place on Friday 15 May 2026. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

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: flipsnack.com/leverhulmetrus…

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-a…

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

Dame Anne Pringle is also a graduate of #French and #German @StAModLangs