Students of Modern Languages at St Anne's make up one of the liveliest and largest cohorts of the undergraduate body. 

College tutors (Fellows and Lecturers) cover French (literature and language), Spanish, German and Italian, and we also have French and German native language assistants.

Professor Patrick McGuinness works on 19th- and 20th-century French literature, with special expertise in poetry and theatre. He is also an established expert in comparative literature. Geneviève Adams is our Lecturer in French Language, and she is responsible for co-ordinating and organizing provision for all taught years of study. Dr Geraldine Hazbun specializes in the literature and historiography of medieval and Golden Age Spain. Dr Tom Kuhn works on political literature in the 20th century, and in particular on Bertolt Brecht. Dr Eleanor Parker specialises in twentieth-century Italian lyric poetry, with a particular interest in Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale. As tutors, we meet very regularly in College to discuss student academic issues and are open and accessible to all. 

College teaching is supported by lectures and seminars in the Modern Languages Faculty, and by language classes in the Language Centre. Both the Faculty and the Language Centre are five minutes’ walk from College, as is the Maison Française, the French cultural institute.

We are fully supportive of student-organized activities within the Modern Languages Society in College as well as other events around Oxford. St Anne's also benefits from hosting the Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative literature, whose recent holders have included Amos Oz, Umberto Eco and Mario Vargas Llosa.

We support a broad range of the modern language degree programmes available at Oxford, and we have particular strengths in the joint programmes, namely with Classics, English, History and Philosophy. Together, we are keen to build up our significant and successful student base in these joint programmes.

We also specialize in and welcome applications in French Single Honours (or 'French Sole'), a degree course that allows students to study French literature, language and culture in depth, with a range of subjects from medieval literature to contemporary film. More details on the course can be found on the Modern Languages website.

St Anne's also runs informal meetings for all our second-year students to help them prepare for their year abroad. We invite finalists, fresh from a year away, to share their views and experiences. These meetings complement the preparatory work organized by the Modern Languages Faculty (and sub-faculties). There are College travel funds available to all, and we are keen to ensure that Modern Languages students take full advantage of them to develop their language skills.

St Anne's continues to attract students from the broadest range of backgrounds, and we have particular success in attracting state-school students to Modern Languages here. All are welcome!

Follow these links for a students' views of French, French Sole, German and Spanish at St Anne's.

These are worth reading, even if they are not your chosen languages, as they give an idea of the structure of the course and viewpoints of our students.

See also:

• Classics and Modern Languages
• English and Modern Languages
• European and Middle Eastern Languages
• History and Modern Languages
• Modern Languages and Linguistics
• Philosophy and Modern Languages