Iris recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. in Linguistics, which she will follow up with an M.Phil. in the autumn, focusing on the history of the Romance languages. She served as captain of her college’s Boat Club and is active in student theatre, both on stage and behind the scenes. She recently put on a production of Hamlet in King’s College Chapel (which was attended by Ian McKellen!) and will star as Creusa in the 2026 Cambridge Greek Play, Euripides’ Ion (alumni of the production include Tom Hiddleston and James Mason). She previously completed an undergraduate Humanities programme at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand in Paris (in conjunction with the Sorbonne), where she studied world literature, history, philosophy, and modern and classical languages. Iris has lived in Oxford, Paris, and now Cambridge, whilst also travelling throughout Europe. She is fluent in English and French, proficient in German and Ancient Greek, and can string together a few words in Spanish, Italian, and Latin. This is Iris’ fourth summer with Oxford Academia.