Wed 4 Feb 6pm at @ByreTheatre, join us on a moving and joyful journey across the Middle East through stories, poetry, music, and dance: The Olive and the Oak: A Meeting of East and West through Stories, Dance, and Music - Pay as you can: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-o...

Fri 30 Jan 3pm in School III, St Salvator's Quad, Daughters of Donbas, led by the Ukrainian human rights activist, Marichka, will be performing in St Andrews as part of the group's Songs of Stolen Children tour. Finde more here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/songs...

Dr Niall Sreenan, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at our School, spoke with Barbara Burns about his new book - Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction. Read more here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Byre World 2025-26 continues Tuesday 27 January 2026 with East German Cinema and the Holocaust.
Join us for a screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne / Stars (PG). The film will be shown in German with English subtitles: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Congratulations, Niall. A fascinating topic!

Here you can find a list of volumes published by colleagues at our school: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Read our Dr Niall Sreenan's interview about his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction, which has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

The application period for the R&A Ransome Scholarships closes 4 Feb. 3 scholarships are available for Canada, Mexico & the USA to begin a postgrad master’s in Sep 2026, including our MLitt in CompLit & MLitt in Global Languages, Literatures&Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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Photo of the book's author

'Struggling since 1859'

Barbara Burns talks to Niall Sreenan (@sta-modlangs.bsky.social), whose book 'Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction' has just been published in Legenda’s Studies in Comparative Literature series.

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...

We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr Niall Sreenan’s monograph, Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction, has now been published and is available for purchase here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Byre World is back for the new semester, continuing the annual series of talks, workshops, and performances bringing the School of Modern Languages' global cultural studies research to the local community. Read about our upcoming events here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Tue 27 Jan 6pm at Byre Theatre join this semester's first Byre World event: the screening of Konrad Wolf’s Sterne, followed by a Q&A with our Prof Sean Allan & Elizabeth Ward of the University of Leipzig and author of East German Film and the Holocaust: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/east-...

Read the piece about the academics and students in Iran, for which our Saeed Talajooy was interviews: Iranian scholars fear tougher clampdown as protests spread | Times Higher Education (THE): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/iranian...

Join our c19c Research Seminars Seminars on Wednesdays 1-2pm, United College Room 31.

Dr Saeed Talajooy's piece In Memoriam of Bahram Beyzaie (26 December 1938- 26 December 2025): www.iranicaonline.org/announcement...

Find out about our University's scholarships for 2026 entry which are open to School of Modern Languages' PhD applicants. Apply by 21 January 2026: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

A bit late, but here’s a photo of me introducing the first session of the @langsocscot.bsky.social event in Edinburgh in November. Photo stolen from @drsarahhopkyns.bsky.social’s LinkedIn (sorry, Sarah, and thanks!)
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Applications are now being accepted for the St Leonard's College Widening Access Scholarship, open to applicants looking to start a doctoral (PhD) degree in the 2026-27 academic year in any subject, including with the School of Modern Languages. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

You can access the list of doctoral scholarships in the School of Modern Languages here: st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Congrats to our Dr Claudia Rossignoli for being awarded a Bonn-St Andrews Joint Education Seed Funding for her project, ‘Collaborative curriculum development, including a COIL module design and a hybrid summer school’ in collaboration with Dr Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn.

Congratulations to our Dr Eleni Kefala who has been awarded a 3-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her project, ‘Deserts of Modernity: Nature and History in 19th-Century Patagonia and Pampa’.

Congratulations to Damiano Benvegnu & Bettina Bildhauer have been awarded a St Leonard’s College World Leading Supervisor-led PhD Scholarship to bring 2 funded PGR students to the School. See the details in the links below:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Two scholarships are available to Palestinian applicants looking to start a postgraduate Masters degree in Sep 2026, including our Masters in Comparative Literature & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures, and & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

We are pleased to offer a funded doctoral scholarship - How to write a global success before print: The paradigmatic case of the Seven Sages of Rome/Sinbad narrative, to start in the 2026-27 academic year, supervised by Professor Bettina Bildhauer: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

The Schools of Modern Languages & Computer Science offer a funded doctoral scholarship - Designing Techno-Cultural Ecologies: Prototyping Critical & Creative Interactions with Biodiversity, to start in the 2026-27 academic year: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Apply for the St Andrews - GREAT Scholarships, open to prospective Masters students from France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico & Spain through our Masters in Comparative Literature & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures, & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Apply for the position of Reader or Professor in our Department of Chinese. You must have an international research reputation in Chinese language, literary, & cultural studies. Closing Date: 19 January 2026. Read the details in Times Higher: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

The University offers a 15% discount on postgrad tuition fees to students who've graduated or are eligible to graduate from St Andrews, available if you apply for postgrad programmes here, including postgrad Masters&research degrees in our School: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Together with our German Convenor, we also enjoyed a games afternoon featuring an Austrian-themed Activity game.
We wrapped up the visit with a book club session, reading and discussing Barbi Marković Minihorror.