Congratulations to our colleagues who have been promoted with effect from 1 December 2026: Laura Albertini to Lecturer, Marine Ganofsky to Senior Lecturer, and Eleni Kefala to Professor 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations to all our colleagues&students on excellent results in the National Student Survey 2026, with Arabic&Persian #1 in the UK (3rd year running), Spanish #2 UK (#1 in Scotland); German #3 UK (#1 Scotland); Chinese #4 UK (#1 Scotland), & Russian #4 UK (#2 Scotland).

Read about the 16th EURAMAL: Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Read about our recent Byre World Insights – ‘Queer Tales: Reenacting Women’s Lives’ event here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Congratulations to all our students who graduated this Wed 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Highlights from the highly successful 16th EURAMAL Conference: more than 100 participants from Europe, the Arab world, and beyond, alongside special events featuring renowned writers & poets Nouri al-Jarrah, Ghayath Almadhoun, Sinan antoon, Eleni Kefala, David Herd, & Dima Wannous.

Congratulations to all our @sta-modlangs.bsky.social students graduating on Wednesday 1 July 🎓💫

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We can't wait for Summer graduation in St Andrews next week 🎓 🙌 The first ceremony takes place at 2pm on Monday, and there are ceremonies at 10.30am and 2pm Tuesday to Friday. Watch online from anywhere in the world. 🌎 https://ow.ly/Y0z750Z9Rq8 #EverToExcel #ForeverSaints

Spent an excellent afternoon at the launch of the @sahavoice.bsky.social report on ‘Languages in a Global Scotland’ @royalsoced.bsky.social Glad to have made a small contribution to such an important report led by Catherine O’Leary @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

Read about our School's success in the Complete University Guide 2027: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu... #studylanguages

📚🌍30 Sep–2 Oct 2026 our Festival of Languages is back for three days of inspiring events celebrating languages, cultures, literature, translation, & multilingual creativity. Access our exciting programme here: festivaloflanguages.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/festival-pro... #ByreTheatre #FestivalOfLanguages

🎉🎉🎉We are happy to share with you that the four subjects our School has listed in the Complete University Guide @compuniguide are now all in the top 5 in the UK: French and Italian 2nd, German 3rd, and Spanish 5th. You can find more here: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...

Through the lenses of the histories of magic and sexuality, Marine Ganofsky’s book will be the first to examine how the Enlightenment reimagined erotic desire as secular enchantment. @sta-modlangs.bsky.social Read in our latest newsletter: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

Enchanté! Libertines and the magic of desire in eighteenth-century French fiction

Through the lenses of the histories of magic and sexuality, Marine Ganofsky’s book will be the first to examine how the Enlightenment reimagined erotic desire as secular enchantment

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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: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

The ‘Lost Detectives’ podcast series is back! In Ep. 8, Claire Whitehead talks to Dr Grace Docherty about the depiction of non-human things in examples of crime fiction from the late imperial era in Russia. lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/podcasts/ soundcloud.com/university-o...

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/makin...

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: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

We’re hiring! @sta-modlangs.bsky.social www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Thanks to Adrienne Angelo for the generous review of Nsah Mala’s and my co-ed @livunipress.bsky.social volume, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, in the latest issue of French Studies @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/arti...

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: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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

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-a...

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: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations to our Dr Yuhui Liao who has been awarded a Global Partnerships Travel Grant to support collaborative activities with National Tsing Hua University and National Taiwan University. 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations to our Dr Zheng Li who has been awarded an Advance HE Fellowship (FHEA). 🎉🎉🎉