Research News

Book publication: The New �� History of Russian Literature

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:13:28 +0000

The New �� History of Russian Literature (�� University Press) has been edited by Prof Simon Franklin, Dr Rebecca Reich and Prof Emma Widdis.

Languages, Power and Cultures (Trinity College) and Langevity (Emmanuel College) programmes open for applications

Jay Richardson — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:07:07 +0000

Applications are open for the Languages, Power and Cultures Programme at Trinity College, aimed at students in their penultimate school year.

Selwyn Sykes �� Masters Studentship in Italian Studies

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:22:56 +0000

Selwyn College will offer two studentships for UK MPhil students in Italian Studies for entry in October 2025.

Doyle Calhoun on archives, literature and anticolonial resistance

Jay Richardson — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:54:39 +0000

Content Notice: This article contains discussions of colonial violence and suicide. Dr Doyle D. Calhoun teaches and works on a range of topics related to African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas; Senegalese literature and cinema in French and Wolof; the archives and afterlives of French slavery; Négritude; and the...

Faculty members launch �� Translation Studies Network

Jay Richardson — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:35:43 +0000

The �� Translation Studies Network (CTSN) aims to bring together all those interested in translation across the Humanities and Social Sciences, to promote translation as research in an interdisciplinary context, and to support students involved in any aspect of translation studies.

Dr Emma Claussen co-hosts 'Proust Curious' podcast with Public Books

Jay Richardson — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:04:44 +0000

Dr Emma Claussen (MMLL, ��) and Dr Hannah Weaver (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) are Proust Curious. Their new podcast , produced in partnership with Public Books, covers the experience of reading À la recherche du temps perdu —all seven volumes. Marcel Proust’s cultural touchstone, written...

Book launch, 'The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism'

Nia Bolland — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:17:27 +0000

Professor Sally Faulkner's The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé is the first English monograph on this brilliant Spanish director. The book launch will be held at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus, on Wednesday the 23rd of October, 5pm.

New book on Christian Petzold

Charlotte Lee — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:58:51 +0000

Congratulations to Andrew Webber and Stephan Hilpert (Marcromedia University Berlin) on the publication of Screening Work: The Films of Christian Petzold with Legenda!

Ruth Murphy on moral philosophy, literature, and New Literary History

Jay Richardson — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:40:11 +0000

Ruth Murphy is a PhD candidate in Italian at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literature, ��. Her most recent article, ‘“Let me look again”: The Moral Philosophy and Literature Debate at 40’ , was recently published in New Literary History (Vol. 55 No. 1). Here, Murphy explains the...

Prof Wendy Ayres-Bennett: New handbook combines wide coverage with cutting-edge research

Jay Richardson — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:38:42 +0000

22 July 2024 Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (��) and Professor Mairi McLaughlin (UC Berkeley, �� alumna) have co-edited the newly published Oxford Handbook of the French Language , featuring 32 chapters by different specialists on French from a range of fields and disciplines. In this interview...