Old Norse window in St Anne's Library.

St Anne's is unique in Oxford in having four full-time Tutorial Fellows in English – Siân Grønlie, Freya Johnston, Ann Pasternak Slater and Matthew Reynolds – whose research and teaching span the whole syllabus from Old English to the present day. This means that we are able to offer the full range of options in the English course, from Beowulf to Beckett. All of us are interested in writing in other languages; some of us have published on translation or translated ourselves, from languages as diverse as Latin, Old Norse, Russian, French, German and Italian.

Among the Modern Languages tutors are Dr Geraldine Hazbun, an expert in the literature and historiography of medieval and Golden Age Spain, and Dr Patrick McGuinness, Professor in French and Comparative Literature and a poet and translator. Geneviève Adams is our College lecturer in French Language; she is responsible for co-ordinating and organizing provision for all taught years of study. Dr Tom Kuhn works on twentieth-century German literature, in particular on Bertolt Brecht. Dr Francesca Southerden specializes in medieval and twentieth-century Italian lyric poetry.

Students in a production of 'Kiss Me Kate'.

We teach in whatever combination of small classes, pairs, and one-to-one tutorials best suits our students and the topic. Students of English and Modern Languages will typically have one College tutorial a week for English and one for Modern Languages, both based on literary essays, and they attend a College class for English (typically in a group of no more than six) and one to two small group language classes, which may be in College and/or in the University Language Centre. Students also attend a range of two to four weekly lectures for Modern Languages subjects, and a similar number for English literature, depending on the year of their course and their chosen papers.

Dr Andrew Klevan, University Lecturer in Film Studies and non-tutorial Fellow at St Anne's, offers an option called 'Principles of Film Appreciation' to English and joint schools undergraduates in the Hilary Term of their final year. All lectures for this option take place in College, as do the screenings which are projected in cinema conditions in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre.

Each year the Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature spends a term or so at St Anne's (recent incumbents have included Umberto Eco, Mario Vargas Llosa and Amos Oz); we also host the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, a national literary award designed to celebrate the translation of European literature into English.

Our College Library, one of the best-stocked in Oxford, is an excellent resource for undergraduate study in English and Modern Languages. Matthew Reynolds and Patrick McGuinness run the comparative literature seminar, which discusses a range of topics from translation to avant-garde poetry, music and art.

Students come to us from every kind of educational background in the UK and beyond. You will find that your tutors are committed to helping you develop your own interests, and that your ideas will spark off those of others in your year.