New book by former PhD student

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Andrew Liston, who was supervised by now-emerita Helen Chambers, has published a book on ‘The Ecological Voice in Recent German-Swiss Prose’ with Peter Lang publishers.

Successful SELF bid

Friday 20 May 2011

Congratulations to Annette Zimmermann whose SELF (Strategic Enhancement of Learning Fund) bid for the creation of self-assessment exercises in Moodle for French, Italian and Spanish subhonours language modules has been successful.

Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship

Friday 20 May 2011

Bettina Bildhauer has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship worth £20,460 to invite Prof. Stefan Keppler-Tasaki to do research in our School. Stefan works at the Free University of Berlin.

Teaching Nominations

Friday 20 May 2011

Dr Patrizia Sambuco has been congratulated by the Director of Representation of the Students Association for receiving several nominations to different Teaching Awards this year. Congratulations to her on behalf of the School, and to Dr David Evans, Prof. Will Fowler, Mr Manuel Lagares, Ms Maria Grandio Montes and Dr Claire Whitehead, who were also nominated.  

Helen Chambers’ Translation of German Classic shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2011

Tuesday 17 May 2011

Once again, Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers have been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, this time for their translation of Theodor Fontane’s Unwiederbringlich, published by Angel Classics in September 2010 under the title No Way Back. (Their translation of Fontane’s Effi Briest was shortlisted in 1996. The novel is one of the core texts in the School’s new Comparative Literature programme which will start in September 2011.)

Byre Theatre Performance

Wednesday 11 May 2011

SP1002 STAGE LUCES DE BOHEMIA IN THE BYRE (6 MAY 2011). Directed by Prof Will Fowler

Plays are not written to be read. They are written to be performed. It is for this reason that, with the support of the Banco de Santander, I made our SP1002 students study Ramón del Vallé-Inclán’s Luces de bohemia (1924) by staging a production of the play.

Doing History through Literature - Doing Literature through History

Wednesday 04 May 2011

May 13th, 14h, Buchanan Building, Room 216.

On May 13th, the School of Modern Languages and the School of History will be holding the first of a series of interdisciplinary PhD workshops. Focusing on the modern era, the overarching goal is to to broaden the methodological horizons of the students involved and foster an exchange on shared thematic concerns that could be enriched by interdisciplinary perspectives.

Essays in honour of David Gascoigne

Wednesday 04 May 2011

Dr David Gascoigne, Honorary Senior Lecturer in French, was recently presented with a Festschrift volume.  The book, edited by two of his former students, Lorna Milne and Mary Orr, was published in March 2011 by Peter Lang and contains no fewer than 16 chapters contributed by colleagues from the UK and France, all of whom have benefited from Dr Gascoigne's influence.

Successful students

Thursday 28 April 2011

We are pleased to announce that Daniela Omlor, who successfully defended her thesis in January, has been appointed to the Queen Sofía Junior Research Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford.

Congratulations also go to one of our Mundus Masters students, Annabelle Marie, who has been offered a job in the Department of French at the University of Cape Town, which she will take up when she finishes her degree.

CRSCEES 20th Annual Conference

Friday 15 April 2011

The Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and East European Studies (CRSCEES) 20th Annual Conference: The Class of 2011: Secondary School Education in Post-Soviet Russia was held on 19th March. This interdisciplinary conference was organised by Dr Emily Finer (SoML), Dr Jeremy Howard (Art History) and Dr Frances Nethercott (History).

SLAS 2011 – ST ANDREWS

Wednesday 13 April 2011

The 47^th Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies was held in St Andrews from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 April 2011(http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/events/SLAS/), hosted by the Department of Spanish of the School of Modern Languages, and organised by Prof. Will Fowler and Dr Eleni Kefala with the support of Barbara Fleming and a team of extremely diligent students. Over 160 delegates from all over the world converged in St Andrews, for what turned out to be a particularly sunny weekend, to discuss a wealth of Latin American-related topics.

Italian play, "In Piazza Vittorio"

Thursday 24 March 2011

On Friday, 18^th March, in the Buchanan Theatre more than 120 people applauded the Italian play In Piazza Vittorio, adapted and directed by Mario Prisco. The Italian Theatre Group is a platform for artistic expression and theatrical experimentation in St Andrews, created and supported by the Italian Department and working in synergy with the Italian society.

College Counsel(l)ors’ Visit 3rd March 2011

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Careers advisors (college counsellors) from the USA and Canada visited St Andrews and the School of Modern Languages in the first week of March.

Heroism in German Literature

Friday 01 April 2011

Michael Gratzke’s new monograph on heroism of self-sacrifice in German literature has just been published with Königshausen & Neumann.

The 2011 edition of Women in French in Scotland

Monday 14 March 2011

Organised by Professor Lorna Milne, The Women In French In Scotland one-day conference took place in Edinburgh with the kind support of the Institut Français d’Ecosse on Saturday 5th March.