University of Glasgow Appoints Professor Nina Parish as New Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures

University of Glasgow Appoints Professor Nina Parish as New Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures

(IN BRIEF) Professor Nina Parish has been appointed as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts & Humanities. Beginning her role on 1 August 2025, Professor Parish brings with her extensive leadership experience from the University of Stirling, where she held key positions including Head of the Division of Literature & Languages and Director of Research for REF 2021. Her appointment comes after a rigorous selection process and signals a strategic move aimed at enhancing collaborative research and expanding the scope of academic leadership within the school. The College expressed its gratitude to outgoing Head Professor Stephen Forcer for his contributions, while emphasizing Professor Parish’s strong research profile in French and Francophone studies and her active involvement in international EU-funded projects. Her diverse expertise spans literature, visual arts, film, and museum studies, making her well-suited to lead the School of Modern Languages & Cultures into its next phase of academic innovation and excellence.

(PRESS RELEASE) GLASGOW, 13-Apr-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — The College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow is excited to announce the appointment of Professor Nina Parish as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures. Following an extensive recruitment process, Professor Parish, who joins from the University of Stirling, will officially assume her role on 1 August 2025, succeeding Professor Stephen Forcer. At Stirling, Professor Parish served as Head of the Division of Literature & Languages, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Director of Research for the REF 2021.

Professor Jo Gill, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Humanities, expressed her enthusiasm: “I’m delighted to welcome Professor Nina Parish to the University of Glasgow as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures. Professor Parish brings exceptional expertise in French and Francophone studies, along with impressive experience in collaborative research and international projects. Her leadership at Stirling and her work on major EU-funded initiatives make her an outstanding addition to our College. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Professor Stephen Forcer for his excellent work during his five-year term.”

Professor Parish herself stated, “I’m pleased to be starting as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures later this summer. I look forward to collaborating with my new colleagues at Glasgow and across the College of Arts & Humanities. While I will miss my colleagues at the University of Stirling, I am excited by the many opportunities for future cooperation.”

Professor Nina Parish brings a wealth of experience in twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature, visual arts, film, museum and memory studies, language teaching, and translation. Her research focuses on representations of difficult history, the migrant experience, and multilingualism in museum contexts, and she has been involved in several collaborative projects, including the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project DisTerrMem.

Professor Nina Parish Biography

Professor Nina Parish has a wide range of teaching experience across twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature, visual arts and film, museum and memory studies as well as language teaching and translation.

She researches representations of difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space and has worked on a range of collaborative grants.

Most recently, she was part of the DisTerrMem team, working on an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, which examined the management of competing, often highly antagonistic, memories of disputed territories across borders focusing on the case studies of Armenia, Pakistan, Poland and Lithuania.

Full biography is here – https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1403486

The College of Arts & Humanities

The College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow has been at the forefront of delivering world-leading teaching, learning and research in the arts and humanities since 1451.

The School of Modern Languages & Cultures is one of four innovative schools that make up the College of Arts & Humanities. The four schools offer world-leading research as well as a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree opportunities

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