Research areas

The School of Modern Languages is distinguished by the breadth of its research which spans language, literary, and cultural studies across eight distinct language areas – Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish – but also a range of cultural-historical epochs from the middle ages to the present day.

This expertise is complemented by the School’s comparative literature scholarship.

Academic and postgraduate research in the School of Modern Languages focuses on a number of broad areas:

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  • comparative studies
  • creativity and performance
  • environmental humanities
  • gender and sexuality studies
  • history, politics, and society
  • medical humanities and cultures of science
  • medieval and early modern studies
  • memory studies
  • postcolonial and transnational studies
  • translation studies and linguistics

For individual research interests see the list of School staff and research outputs and impact.