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We're in Oxford today celebrating 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk', the two-part MLO Special Collection and @VoltaireOxford book published in honour of Nicholas Cronk. @Voltairiste @drthomaswynn @OxUniEnl @magdalenoxford @OxHumanities🥳

During our 10th Anniversary, we're looking back to where MLO all began. To celebrate this, we're sharing @GerdaWielander's 2014 timely article 'In defence of Modern Languages'. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Wielander-In-D… @wminlanguages @ALL4language @OpenLanguagesHQ

'“Let me go back and recreate what I don’t know”: Locating Trans-national Memory Work in Contemporary Narrative.' Read @efbond's case study of three novels with authors of heritage from the Horn of Africa #OA on MLO: bit.ly/2WLZd7s @OxfordModLangs @StHughsCollege

Have you read the 10th Anniversary Q&A with the MLO section editors @BruetonJoanne @uol_paris, Luisa Coelho @OxfordModLangs & Nicola Bermingham @livunilanguages yet? Read it now on the LUP blog: bit.ly/MLO-at-10-blog @Routesintolangs @charlesforsdick @LivUniOpenRes