My wonderful friend, PhD peer, and now editor at Oxford Academic, Dr Sam Bailey, has written an incredibly useful article on turning your PhD into a monograph. Check it out here and please share widely — blog.oup.com/2024/06/how-to…

Visual arts and art history job klaxon! 📢 2-year fixed-term post in Durham jobs.ac.uk/job/DIM456/car…

Congratulations to our colleague Zoe Roth on the award of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project called ‘The Anaesthetics of Politics’, a major reappraisal of the relation between fascism and aesthetics. Image: R.B. Kitaj (If Not, Not (1975-6))

#twitterstorians of slavery and indenture in 19c Cuba: guy at a Menorcan flea market is selling LOTS of original documents. They look authentic. Really should be in public archives.

From a low income family? Thinking of applying to University of Oxford to read languages with us at Oxford Modern Languages? You could be eligible for a means-tested Crankstart Scholarship. Check this out: ⬇️ ox.ac.uk/admissions/und…

MLAC's Tina Kover will be discussing her translation of the Postcard by Anne Berest with our former Translator in Residence, Ruth Clarke, at our wonderful local bookstore, Collected Books Durham 14 August, 6.30pm, free but sign-up at the link below. collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/ev…

Strange to believe that after many years in the making, #MIDNIGHTTREASURE will be published in the UK in a month! To celebrate, I have 5 of these exclusive samplers from Hachette Children's Group to give away. First come, first served, *if* you can tell me what 'Dracula' means in Romanian?

A wonderful post about Voltaire, Frederick the Great, and hanging out, by Gillian Pink Gillian Pink

We are hiring! The School is looking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Visual Studies and French Language on a twelve-month post. For more information, see this link: durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

Check out this interview with Amaleena Damlé, discussing her interests in embodiment, affect, gender, sexuality, and race in 20th- and 21st-century French and francophone literature and philosophy. Amaleena also offers advice for prospective students. youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5Ltx…

Check out this new interview with our colleague Luca Malici. Luca is particularly interested in how aspects of equality, diversity, and inclusion relate to language teaching and learning. He discusses Italian teaching at Durham and the year abroad. youtube.com/watch?v=FgKa75…

#twitterhive. Anyone know what happened to collection of Ecole normale de Cluny when it closed in 1891? Where did all objects end up? Arts et métiers? I'm stumped! All suggestions welcome.

What does the Voltaire Foundation actually do? Mystery unveiled next Friday, 8 Nov, from 9.15 at St Luke's Chapel Humanities Division, when some of our projects will be presented at a research showcase. All welcome; free coffee & refreshments! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/voltaire…

Delighted to present Nicholas Cronk of Voltaire Foundation with his festschrift L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix with Liverpool University Press All thanks to co-editor Gillian Pink Gillian Pink and Paul LeClerc

Workshop alert! Join the Affective Experience Lab on November 13 (12.30-1.30PM) for the first of their 'Making Sense' sessions, which brings together colleagues from across disciplines to reflect on the concept of ‘Immediacy’. Find out more👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/107299618346…

Heading to 🦋 as @tomofwynnland

Thank you for inviting me ISMLA - lovely to meet so many dedicated Modern Languages teachers. Let’s keep in touch.

A great morning talking about Modern Languages with brilliant pupils at Wycombe Abbey Modern Languages at Wycombe Abbey. Big thanks to Sophie McIvor and Lucy Nott. Let’s do that again! Durham University Durham University Faculty of Arts and Humanities

In case you thought severe grading in languages was a bit of a statistical blip around the edges. Have a look and see how real it is and what impact it has: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/01/one-th… HelenMyers

Reading Voltaire's entire correspondence (over 20,000 letters in 45 vols) has its disadvantages and rewards, says Gillian Pink (Gillian Pink). Read her blog post on one of the latter - a 1753 letter containing elements of Voltaire's Candide (1759): voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/fin…