14 December 2020
The British Academy has issued a joint statement warning that the pandemic should serve as a wakeup call on language learning decline across the English speaking world. Professor Dagmar Divjak shares her thoughts.
20 November 2020
PhD Modern Languages student, Ciela Shiyu He, was invited to form part of the panel during our recent annual China Institute Li Siguang lecture, delivered by veteran journalist and media owner, Kevin Sui.
10 November 2020
Why teach Holocaust education across the curriculum? And what role can testimony play in such an approach? These questions were the subject of a CPD webinar organised by Professor Sara Jones in October 2020.
02 November 2020
The M4C competition has opened. Successful applicants will receive 3.5 years funding for a full-time Open Doctoral Award, as well as access to a diverse range of training courses.
23 October 2020
On 15th March 2019, Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould delivered a lecture about her ERC-funded project Global Literary Theory at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
29 September 2020
Essay by Professor Rebecca Gould which was awarded runner-up the 2020 Beechmore Books Arts Journalism Competition.
22 September 2020
Professor Divjak, Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition, elected as an Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea of the Section of Linguistic Studies due to her outstanding achievements
18 August 2020
As part of his Anglo-German research into the Globe cinema and theatre in Oldenburg, John Goodyear delivered a public talk as part of the nationwide Tag des Offenen Denkmals on the stage in Oldenburg's Globe.
09 July 2020
The Department of Modern Languages has launched a new Practice-Based PhD programme in Translation Studies.
17 June 2020
Professor Rebecca Gould and Dr Kayvan Tahmasebian edit an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts.
15 June 2020
'But the BLM protests showed that Colston's weighty legacy was less substantial than we had imagined: Rebecca Gould writes for the London Review of Books on Bringing Colston Down.
10 June 2020
A new study by Dagmar Divjak and Petar Milin in the journal Cognitive Science.