On the Modern Languages side of the Philosophy and Modern Languages course, first-year students at St Anne’s will receive most of their language and literature work from the College Fellows and lecturers in their subjects.

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

Professor Roger Crisp specializes in Aristotle, Plato and Ethics. 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 Coates 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. Professor Diego Zancani specializes in the history of the Italian language, Renaissance literature and Italian courts, and contemporary literature. 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.

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.

As a student of Philosophy and Modern Languages at St Anne's you would be part of one of the largest and liveliest cohorts of undergraduates in the College. We pride ourselves on the broad range of degree programmes offered with both Philosophy and Modern languages, namely Philosophy as part of a Classics degree, with Mathematics, with Politics and Economics or with Psychology and Physiology; and Modern Languages with English, Classics, History or Middle Eastern Languages.

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! St Anne’s Philosophy and Modern Languages students have gone to a variety of jobs: diplomatic service, translating and interpreting, media, acting, teaching, graduate work, law and publishing.

For further information about the Philosophy side of the course, please see the Philosophy page.

See also:

• Modern Languages
• Modern Languages and Linguistics