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Tuesday 11 December 2012
Several academics in Modern Languages have recently secured funding from Scottish-based institutions. Dr K Anipa (Spanish Department) received funding from the Carnegie Trust and the Royal Society of Edinburgh to carry out research in Spain on his project 'Juan de Valdes, Dialogo de la lengua. A diplomatic edition'.
Dr Emily Finer (Russian Department) secured funding from the Carnegie Trust which will enable her to work on a project entitled 'The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Reading Charles Dickens in the Soviet Union'.
Elodie Laugt, from the French Department, will be carrying out research in France in spring 2013 thanks to funding from the Carnegie Trust on her project 'Le partage de la littérature'.
Read the full story600th Anniversary PhD Scholarships
Friday 07 December 2012
The University of St Andrews has announced a new prestigious PhD scholarship scheme. The School of Modern Languages is offering up to three scholarships, available from September 2013, comprising fees plus an annual stipend of up to £15,000 for three years. The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic quality and research promise, and are open to all to apply.
The deadline for application is 31st March 2013. For further information please contact Dr Robert Wilson (langsdopg@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Prof M-A Hutton (mh80@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Read the full storyNew publication
Tuesday 04 December 2012
David Culpin publishes a translation and critical edition of 'The Narrative of the Shipwreck of the French Vessel the Eole on the Coast of Kaffraria in April 1829', by Charles Etienne Boniface'.
School of Modern Languages to host SPELLING BEE*
Tuesday 04 December 2012
The School of Modern Languages will be hosting the first Spelling Bee of its kind in Scotland in collaboration with St. Leonards School. Prizes include cash up to £75 and over 30 schools have registered to take part.
Read the full storyThe 1st Honeyman Conference report
Sunday 30 September 2012
The 1st Honeyman Conference “At the Crossroads of Arabic Literature: The Arabic Literary Heritage in the Context of World Literature” took place in Parliament Hall, St Andrews, on 27-29 September 2012. The conference was organised by the Department of Arabic in the School of Modern Languages.
Read the full storyDr Kirill Dmitriev secures prestigious funding award
Thursday 13 September 2012
Language–Philology–Culture. Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition - ERC Starting Grant (2013-2017)
The project aims to study:
- the semantic development of the vocabulary of the Arabic language,
- philological discourses on the semantic changes in the language in the classical Arabic philological tradition (8th-10th centuries A.D.), and
- the impact of Arabic philology in the wider historical and cultural context of the Judaeo-Arab neo-classical heritage (12th-13th centuries A.D.) and Christian-Arab intellectual history on the eve of modernity (19th century A.D.).
PhD Student on visiting research fellowship at Universität Hamburg
Wednesday 02 May 2012
Marissa Munderloh, a second year PhD student in the German Department, will be working as a visiting research fellow at Universität Hamburg's Graduate School for Media and Communication from April until August 2012. She will be analysing and presenting her data gathered in Hamburg for her PhD research on Urban Identity Constructions in German Hip Hop Culture.
Dr Eleni Kefala wins prestigious research award
Friday 20 April 2012
Dr Eleni Kefala has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship for the academic year 2012-2013. She will be working on her second monograph, Spectacular Modernities: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939, which explores representations of the iconic city of Buenos Aires in the interwar period, drawing on evidence from literature, film, photography, music and painting.
Dr Gustavo San Roman wins prestigious international prize
Friday 20 April 2012
Dr Gustavo San Román, Reader in Latin American Literature, has been announced as the winner of an International Essay Competition on José Enrique Rodó.
Postgraduate success
Friday 20 April 2012
The School and Dept of Spanish are delighted to announce that doctoral candidate Leticia Neria passed her viva on 10 April 2012 for her thesis entitled "Humour as Political Resistance and Social Criticism. Mexican Comics and Cinema, 1969-1976".
Read the full storyLanguage Open Day: 14 May 2012 (10.00 - 15.00)
Friday 20 April 2012
In a drive to promote languages at school level, the School of Modern Languages will be hosting a Language Open Day for local schools on 14 May 2012 between 10 am and 3 pm. The activities on offer range from taster sessions in six different languages and mini-lectures to a guided tour of our University museum MUSA and a quiz with fantastic prizes for the winners. There will also be plenty of opportunity for teachers and pupils to meet and talk to university staff, undergraduates and postgraduates.
For enquires and further details, please contact the School's Language Development Officer (az@st-andrews.ac.uk) or the Director of External Relations (langsdoer@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Read the full storyPhD student appears in German TV documentary
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Jamie Page, a PhD student supervised jointly by Dr Bettina Bildhauer in the School of Modern Languages and Professor Frances Andrews in the School of History, has appeared in a documentary on prostitution in the Middle Ages in Germany entitled "Käufliche Liebe im Mittelalter," made by the Munich-based production company Bilderfest for the channel SAT. 1.
Persian at St Andrews
Thursday 26 January 2012
Persian will be taught at St Andrews at undergraduate level for the first time starting this semester. PR1001 will be taught by Maryam Ghorbankarimi (mg91@st-andrews.ac.uk), whose PhD research is in film studies at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the representation of women in the Iranian cinema of the 1990s. Maryam has successfully taught Persian language to postgraduates in the School of History at St Andrews for the last 4 years.