The College has a community of Modern Languages scholars who study a diverse range of languages in their regional and national settings across the world.

Lesley Wylie, Fellow Elect, is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture, with particular interest in writing from Colombia, Cuba, and the Peruvian Amazon. Syamala Roberts works on German modernism in its European and transnational dimensions, with particular emphasis on media, the senses, and the relationship between German and Indian/South Asian culture. Julia Moore and Shaw Worth both work with English and French-language material in their research. Moore is writing on the relationship between literature and movement in twentieth-century North American and French contexts. Worth examines artmaking at the courts of England, France, and Burgundy in the long fifteenth century. Neil Kenny and Catriona Seth are chiefly scholars of French culture. Kenny specialises in the literary, social and intellectual history of early modern France. Seth holds the Marshal Foch Professorship of French literature—the University’s only Chair in French—which is attached to All Souls, and has published extensively on the literature and cultural history of the eighteenth century. Marina Warner, writer and cultural historian, turns her degree in French and Italian to investigate culture, myth and society in award-winning books of criticism, history and fiction. 
In addition to the Fellows listed here, several others conduct research at All Souls informed by the study of languages, working within the subjects Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, Social Anthropology, History, and English Literature.

As well as being researchers in Modern Languages, several of us teach languages and their related cultures in the University. We are committed to promoting language study and literacy in the UK and further afield, including with schools and in the context of educational policy. 
 

Current Fellows:

• Professor Neil Kenny
• Julia Moore
• Dr Syamala Roberts
• Professor Catriona Seth
• Professor Dame Marina Warner
• Shaw Worth