28 July 2026
Dr Johanna Stark appointed as Professor of Taxation Law at St Hugh’s
We are delighted to announce that Dr Johanna Stark has been appointed as Professor of Taxation Law at St Hugh's and the
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St Hugh’s undergraduate student of French awarded Claude Massart Prize
Congratulations to St Hugh’s undergraduate student of French, Poppy Littler-Jennings (Modern Languages, 2023), who has been awarded the Claude Massart Prize for the Best Performance in French Literature across Oxford University for the academic year 2023-2024, following her outstanding preliminary examination results. Poppy was required to write three essays, choosing from questions about the four set texts: La Chastelaine de Vergy, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Indiana, and Traversée de la Mangrove.
Poppy said, ‘I truly relished studying these texts, and I particularly enjoyed exploring the ways in which French writers implicate certain themes and messages through the medium of fiction. I was equally fascinated by the way in which writers use extra-diegetic spaces within their novels to foreground their ideas, an especially prominent skill of Maryse Condé, my favourite author from this year. I am looking forward to further expanding my repertoire of French literature throughout the rest of my time studying at St Hugh’s and discovering more about the artful nuances of fiction’.
