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Dutch at Sheffield: Looking Back on Semester Two
Reaching the end of another successful semester in Dutch Studies at Sheffield it is time for a quick look back. On fresh blood, language assistants and end of year drinks.
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Sheffield Students publish their literary translation
The citybooks.eu Translation Project is becoming an annual event in the world of Dutch Studies in the UK. Students from the University of Sheffield, Nottingham and UCL translate a new literary text for the European digital literature project citybooks.eu. For the 8th edition we enlisted the expertise of literary translator Laura Watkinson and, of course, our Writer in Residence and author of the text, Maarten van der Graaff.
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Year Abroad: 'My languages have really taken off'
A Third Year Abroad is a big thing in many respects. As she is about to return to the UK, Aisling Redmond (BA French with Dutch) looks back on her year in the Netherlands.
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Internship at Netherlands Embassy
Two of our recent graduates, Lucy Mitchell and Cian Hurley, are spending a week at the Netherlands Embassy in London to get a taste of working in diplomatic circles.
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ANS Essay Prize 2017
This year's Anglo-Netherlands Society (ANS) Essay Prize was awarded to Jodie May for her essay 'How the Dutch Language Became Standardized'.
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Sheffield Students translate (with) Carmien Michels
Author, poet and European Champion Slam Poetry visited Sheffield in March 2017 to offer work shops in Slam poetry, to perform her own work but, above all, to work with our students on an English translation of a fresh literary text: 'Not long now'.
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In praise of our Erasmus Language assistants
Every year Dutch at Sheffield receives a group of Dutch and Belgian Erasmus students from our partner universities. We invite them to get involved with the Dutch Section and the Centre for Dutch and Flemish Studies. They never fail to deliver.