Modern Languages at St Andrews

Happy to welcome @MiseresVanesa in our Spanish Research Activity Day @StAModLangs presenting her new book Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism

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/making-…

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Fixed-term Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities & Modern Languages/Comparative Literature at @StAModLangs. 1 year from 1 August 2026. ⏰ Deadline 8 June 2026. Click link for details & to apply: bit.ly/ALDigiHums

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: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languag…

We’re hiring! Associate Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Modern Languages/Comparative Literature (Education Focused) - AO1995RX at University of St Andrews jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM943/ass…

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: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languag…

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: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languag…

@StAModLangs Had a blast! Thank you for the warm welcoming and the conversations. 🌎

@StAModLangs Congrats Will! Wonderful story, I don’t personally know Amanda Skinner but she should write more crónicas like this one :)

Thanks to Adrienne Angelo for the generous review of @nsahmala1 and my co-ed @LivUniPress volume, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, in the latest issue of @FrenchStudies @StAModLangs @SFPS_UK 👇 muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/articl…

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: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languag…

It is not often that a travel writing scholar is able to provoke and witness the development of a travel writing piece. It has been an honour to be @criveragarza traveling comrade during her Seven Days in St Andrews. Read her blog @StAModLangs here: …ritersinresidence.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/04/…

Thanks to everyone involved @StAModLangs in warmly welcoming @criveragarza @univofstandrews Here are some memories: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languag…

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

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-and…

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: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

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.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉