New Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures announced
Published: 11 April 2025
College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Nina Parish as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures.
After an extensive recruitment process, the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Nina Parish as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures.
Professor Parish joins from the University of Stirling where she is currently Head of the Division of Literature & Languages and Professor of French and Francophone Studies and was its Director of Research for The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
Professor Parish will assume her new role at the University of Glasgow on 1 August 2025, succeeding Professor Stephen Forcer following his very successful term of office.
Professor Jo Gill, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Humanities, said: “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. Her leadership at Stirling and her international research profile, particularly her work on major EU-funded projects, make her an outstanding addition to our College and I look forward to working with her.”
Professor Gill added: “I would also like to take the opportunity to personally thank Professor Stephen Forcer for his excellent work and many achievements as Head of School for the last five years.”
Professor Parish said: “I’m pleased to be starting as the new Head of the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at Glasgow later in the summer and am very much looking forward to working with colleagues in the School and across the College of Arts & Humanities more broadly. I will miss my colleagues at the University of Stirling, but I won’t be far away and I’m sure there will be many opportunities for collaboration.”
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
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First published: 11 April 2025