Modern Languages and Joint Schools
Average intake: Eleven
Tutors and Lecturers
- Dr Nikolaj Lübecker, Tutorial Fellow in French
- Dr Frédérique Aït-Touati, Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in French
- Dr Emanuela Tandello, Associate College Lecturer in Italian
- Dr Julie Curtis, Associate College Lecturer in Russian
- Mr John Charles Smith, Associate College Lecturer in French Linguistics
- Ms Marie Elven, Lecturer in French Language
- Dr Sabine Müller, Stipendiary Lecturer in German
- Ms Anja Drautzburg, Lektorin in German
- Dr Ben Bollig, Associate College Lecturer in Spanish
- Miss Nathalie Raunet, French Lectrice
- Ms Claudia Kaiser, Specialist Language Teacher in German
Additional Fellows
- Professor Terence Cave, Emeritus Research Fellow
Selection criteria
- Modern Languages
- Classics and Modern Languages - please see criteria for Classics and for Modern Languages
- English and Modern Languages - please see criteria for English and for Modern Languages
- History and Modern Languages - please see criteria for History and for Modern Languages
- Modern Languages and Linguistics - please see criteria for Modern Languages
- Philosophy and Modern Languages - please see criteria for Philosophy and for Modern Languages
More about Modern Languages at St John's
- Modern Languages are taught in St John's through a combination of seminars and tutorials for the courses on literature, film, thought or linguistics, as chosen by students. Our tutorial fellows are world-class academics who work with you closely throughout your undergraduate career.
- Our students are also part of top-quality departments, led by scholars of international standing. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), French and German ranked top, and Russian second, in both the Quality Rankings and Research Fortnightly's 'research power index' of UK institutions, while Spanish, Portuguese and Italian were each ranked fourth in the UK.
- All modern languages students have access to the University's excellently equipped Language Centre, which received special praise in the most recent HEFCE Teaching Quality Assessment.
- All of the Modern Languages courses allow for study of the culture of the nation(s) in which your language is spoken, through options on literature, thought or film. Options in advanced translation or linguistics allow you to devote up to three-quarters of your course to study of the language itself, if you wish.
- Because of the college and tutorial system, a large proportion of your course will be taught through individual or small-group teaching. The tutorial system also offers you huge flexibility to follow your own interests in the subject as your course progresses.
- St John's is the best-situated college in Oxford for Modern Languages students, being just opposite the Modern Languages Faculty (known as the Taylor Institution), where lectures are held and the libraries are found. We are just a couple of minutes' walk from the Language Centre.
- For students of French, the Maison Française, a unique cultural institute offering film-screenings, visiting speakers and other events, is also nearby.
- Our own College Library also offers excellent resources in modern languages.
- Both written and spoken language is taught in small-group classes involving native-speaker instructors.
- We offer book grants to help students with their studies, and award travel grants to enable projects likely to help you with fluency in your chosen language.
- The Moore Society is a thriving student-led Modern Languages society, offering film screenings, social events and an annual dinner.
- All courses include a year abroad, usually in the third year. Your tutor will help you arrange your placement, which may be as an exchange student at a foreign university, as a teaching assistant in a school, or a work-experience internship.
- In recent years, Modern Languages graduates from St John's have gone on to work in translation and interpreting, the media, law, finance, the civil service and the armed forces, as well as post-graduate study.
