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Dr Rachel Randall co-edits a special double issue of Hispanic Research Journal on Reproductive Labor in Latin American Screen Cultures

Dr Rachel Randall has co-edited a special double issue of Hispanic Research Journal on 'Reproductive Labor and Caring Practices in Latin American Film and Screen Cultures' (25.1-2).

Date added: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

New Video Essay published by Dr Rachel Randall

Dr Rachel Randall's video essay, PAUSAS | PAUSES, was published open access in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies in June.

Date added: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Dr Randall awarded Collaboration and Strategic Impact Funding for a project with Nanny Solidarity Network

Dr Rachel Randall has been awarded QMUL Collaboration and Strategic Impact Funding (CSIF) for a project entitled: 'Care on Demand: The Untold Stories of Domestic and Childcare Workers in the UK Gig Economy' (£17,175.92).

Date added: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Latest Francosphères issue, edited by Dr Rebekah Vince, goes live online

We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Francosphères, edited by Dr Rebekah Vince, is now available online (table of contents below). Published by Liverpool University Press, Francosphères is an interdisciplinary, open access, bilingual journal that is essential reading for those working in and researching French-speaking cultures across the world.

Date added: Monday, August 11, 2025

Dr Rey Conquer publishes a book based on Holocaust Centre North residency

Dr Rey Conquer, Teaching Fellow in German, has published a book, Conversation Time (June 2025), based on their residency at Holocaust Centre North in 2024. Their work was also included in the Centre's Memorial Gestures exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds. 

Date added: Thursday, August 7, 2025

Dr Vince presented a paper at the Society for French Studies 66th annual conference

Dr Rebekah Vince took part in a panel on ‘Bricolage as literary repair’ at the Society for French Studies 66th annual conference at the University of Bristol, 30 June-2 July 2025. Her paper was entitled ‘Re. Colette Fellous: bricoleuse of Barthes’ (abstract below). The panel was conceived by Joanne Brueton (ULIP) who spoke on ‘Patrick Chamoiseau’s sentimenthèque: Bricolage and the Canon’. It also included papers by Sura Qadiri (University of Cambridge) on ‘Enchanting Assemblages: The Patchwork Phototexts of Dora Latiri and Marie Ndiaye’ and Khalid Lyamlahy (University of Chicago) on ‘Philosophy, Translation, and Writing as Bricolage in Morocco: The Experience of Abdessalam Benabdelali’.

Date added: Thursday, July 3, 2025

Dr Bingham contributes chapter to the upcoming book 'The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel'

has a chapter in the upcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel with chapter titled "‘My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel".

Date added: Thursday, July 17, 2025

Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar presents his research at BAFTSS

On 27 March 2025, Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar presented his paper Piecing Together the Blast: Memory and Image Reconstruction in Natalia Garayalde’s Esquirlas at the BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) conference, Global Aesthetics, held at the University of Warwick, UK. 

Date added: Friday, July 11, 2025

New video essay by Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar

Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar’s video essay Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes was published in the March 2025 issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. 

Date added: Friday, July 11, 2025

Prof Armstrong participated in the launch event of a five-year funded research project on genres in French literature around 1500

Professor Adrian Armstrong took part in a workshop in Grenoble to mark the launch of RhéF-R, a five-year project on genres in French literature in the period around 1500, funded by France’s equivalent of UKRI, the Agence nationale de la recherche. 

Date added: Monday, July 7, 2025

Prof Köhler presents her research on medicalization of 19th-century spas

Professor Astrid Köhler gave an invited paper about the "Medicalization of 19th-Century Spas" at an international Medical Humanities conference in Fribourg (Switzerland). The conference 4th-5th July 2025 brings together historians of medicine and of architecture, scholars from spatial and literary studies and healthcare architects – in order to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion on medical spaces, their history, significance and social dynamics.

Date added: Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Prof Köhler contributes to the upcoming book 'The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present'

Professor Astrid Köhler has a chapter coming out in the book 'The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present'.

Date added: Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Award of PhD on Catalan Studies to James Thomas

At the Centre for Catalan Studies we are delighted to announce that our postgraduate student James Thomas has been awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled ‘The Anglophone Reception of Catalan Literature: 1780-1900’. Quite exceptionally, the thesis was passed without any corrections demanded by the examiners.

Date added: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Concert held at Pinter Studio celebrates the history and evolution of the Portuguese guitar

The concert "A Century of Carlos Paredes" at the Pinter Studio on June 9, 2025, brought together a diverse audience from Queen Mary and the broader community for an evening of Portuguese guitar virtuosity.

Date added: Friday, June 13, 2025

Mansur Boase delivers seminar on Anselm Turmeda at the Centre for Catalan Studies

Mansur Boase (Queens’ College, Cambridge) delivered a seminar at QMUL titled “The Early Story of Fra Anselm Turmeda: A 14th-century Franciscan from Mallorca who converted to Islam and wrote in three languages.”

Date added: Friday, June 13, 2025

Dr Émilie Oléron Evans's latest book shortlisted for prestigious art history prize

Date added: Friday, June 13, 2025

Prof Leigh Oakes and his co-authors write on linguistic integration in The Conversation

Keir Starmer says migrants should learn English to integrate. Is he being fair?

Date added: Monday, June 9, 2025

Ahmed Dickinson premieres music by Catalan composer Maria Camahort

Ahmed Dickinson’s concert at Queen Mary last month, organised by the Centre for Catalan Studies, was a truly special evening, bringing together the music of Eduardo Martín and the Catalan composer Maria Camahort.

Date added: Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Dr Olga Makarova co-edited a new volume in the series Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research

Content-Based Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language: Edited By Jason Merrill, Olga Makarova, Svetlana V. Nuss. New volume published in the series Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research.

Date added: Monday, May 19, 2025

Dr Olga Makarova presented at a conference Teaching and Learning Russian as a Second and Heritage Language in a Diverse and Changing World

MLC colleague Dr Olga Makarova presented at a conference Teaching and Learning Russian as a Second and Heritage Language in a Diverse and Changing World.

Date added: Saturday, April 26, 2025

1250 Years of Oberelsungen marked with Dialect Lecture by Dr Falco Pfalzgraf

To mark the 1250th anniversary of the German village of Oberelsungen, Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to deliver a public lecture on the local dialect.

Date added: Saturday, April 5, 2025

MLC student commended in translation prize

Moiyah Jackson, a final year student in German and Russian, has been commended in the German strand of the University of Warwick Undergraduate Translation Prize.

Date added: Monday, May 12, 2025

Dr Xumeng Xie joined QMUL recruitment trip across China

Dr Xumeng Xie participated in a cross-faculty China recruitment trip from 11 to 21 April, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Guangzhou.

Date added: Monday, May 12, 2025

Dr Alexandre Burin and Dr Nora Outaleb presented at the conference on translation and language education in the age of AI

Date added: Monday, May 12, 2025

Dr Rachel Randall’s Video Essay Selected for Screening at Marienbad Film Festival

A video essay co-authored by Dr Rachel Randall has been selected for the video essay competition at the Marienbad Film Festival in the Czech Republic (12-15 June).

Date added: Monday, May 12, 2025

Vicent Andrés Estellés’ centenary at QMUL with ValenciansUK, Pau Alabajos and Dominic Keown

Last week, an extraordinary cultural event organised by ValenciansUK and the Centre for Catalan Studies (CCS) took place, bringing together Vicent Andrés Estellés’ poetry and Pau Alabajos’ music, along with the launch of Vicent Andrés Estellés: La veu d’un poble, the first biography of the Valencian poet, one of the most important figures in contemporary Catalan literature.

Date added: Monday, March 24, 2025

Launch of Prof Parvati Nair's New Book

On February 11th 2025, Prof. Parvati Nair’s latest book Displacement, Environments, and Photo-Politics in the Mediterranean: Migrant Sea was launched at Book Marks bookstore in Bloomsbury, London.

Date added: Wednesday, March 19, 2025

New report co-authored by Prof Parvati Nair analyses refugee resilience and hostility in Cairo

A new report, The Refugee Influx from Syria and Sudan in Cairo: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Resilience, Hospitality and Hostility, examines the complex realities faced by Syrian and Sudanese refugees in Egypt’s capital.

Date added: Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Dr Rachel Randall's video essay shortlisted for BAFTSS

A video essay co-authored by Dr Rachel Randall has been shortlisted for a Practice Based Research award in the category of Best Videographic Criticism by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).

Date added: Thursday, March 6, 2025

Writer in residence: Ingo Schulze

Date added: Monday, February 17, 2025

New monograph on Linda Nochlin - book launch 13th February

Emilie Oléron Evans recently published a book called L'histoire de l'art engagée : Linda Nochlin with the Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg. 

Date added: Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Publication of Prof Astrid Köhler's New Book

Professor Astrid Köhler's latest monograph Health Resort in Modern European Literature: Transnational Trajectories, co-authored with Henrike Schmidt has been published Open Access with Bloomsbury. 

Date added: Thursday, February 6, 2025

Economist Jaume Mora gives talk on Catalan produce as economic and cultural diplomacy

Last February, the Centre for Catalan Studies organised an event focusing on the cultural and economic value of the Mediterranean cuisine. Economist Jaume Mora gave a talk which was followed by a tasting of products from the Catalan-speaking territories.

Date added: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Iolanda Batallé’s ‘I’ll Do Anything You Want’ in the QM Catalan Book Club

Last month, the first session of the Queen Mary Catalan Book Club of 2025 took place. This time, the book chosen for discussion was Iolanda Batallé’s I’ll Do Anything You Want (Faré tot el que tu vulguis). We were joined by the author for this event, as well as the translator of the English edition, Martha Tennent.

Date added: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Dr Alexandre Burin at Claude Chabrol's first major UK retrospective

Dr Alexandre Burin introduced Prof. Raphaëlle Moine (University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris) and Chabrol’s movieViolette Nozière, before its public screening on Sunday 2 December. 

Date added: Sunday, February 2, 2025

Prof Jeremy Hicks gave a talk at British Library Holocaust Memorial Day Event

Prof Jeremy Hicks gave a talk about representations of the Holocaust in Soviet film on Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 at the British Library.

Date added: Thursday, January 30, 2025

Dr Rey Conquer's novel shortlisted in The Novel Prize

Date added: Thursday, January 16, 2025

Visit from German Saturday School

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures recently hosted a school visit with German learners from the German Saturday School.

Date added: Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Dr Rebekah Vince Awarded Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize

MLC colleague Rebekah Vince won Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for co-translation of A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean.

Date added: Monday, December 16, 2024

Dr Rhiannon McGlade gives the 2024 Joanot Martorell Lecture on Catalan Feminist Comic Art

The 2024 Joanot Martorell Lecture, organised by the Centre for Catalan Studies in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes London, took place at QMUL. On this occasion, we had the pleasure of being joined by Dr Rhiannon McGlade, former Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies. The title of her lecture was “Irascible Ink: Satire & Subversion in Catalan Feminist Comic Art”.

Date added: Thursday, December 5, 2024

Louisa Beard, Clive Pollard and Laura Peribáñez perform at the Annual Catalan Lecture

The Annual Catalan Lecture 2024, organised by the Centre for Catalan Studies at QMUL, focused on music. The event took place at the Octagon, with performances by soprano Louisa Beard, pianist Clive Pollard and cellist Laura Peribáñez.

Date added: Friday, November 22, 2024

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf organised and led the Concluding Event of the International Research Network “Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation”

This was the concluding event for the implementation of the International Research Network “Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation”. This non-public event was open only for all participants in the research network. It brought together a select group of academics and practitioners to collaborate, draw meaningful conclusions, and explore opportunities for future network initiatives.

Date added: Friday, November 15, 2024

New Intercollegiate MA: Languages and Cultures Across Borders

Applications are now open for the new MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders, with contributions from academics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.

Date added: Monday, November 4, 2024

Prof John London gave a lecture to launch new Catalan courses at the University of Edinburgh

Date added: Thursday, October 31, 2024

Dr Rachel Randall awarded funding from Migration Mobilities Bristol

Dr Rachel Randall was awarded funding from Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB).

Date added: Monday, October 28, 2024

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf presented a paper at the LaGendA conference in Venice

Date added: Friday, October 4, 2024

Prof Leigh Oakes delivers keynote lecture at the University of Reykjavík, Iceland

Beyond the taboo: re-evaluating normativity in language policy and planning research

Date added: Monday, September 30, 2024

Semi-annual GfdS lecture, held by Prof. Dr. Torsten Leuschner (Gent): "'Was auch immer im Duden steht ...': Irrelevanzkonditionalgefüge in der Duden-Grammatik und in Wirklichkeit"

Date added: Thursday, September 19, 2024

Two days of Catalan theatre at Queen Mary

The conference ‘Catalan Theatre in English: Past, Present & Future’, including an evening of live plays in Catalan, took place on 12 and 13 September at Queen Mary University of London. The conference ‘Catalan Theatre in English: Past, Present & Future’, including an evening of live plays in Catalan, took place on 12 and 13 September at Queen Mary University of London.

Date added: Monday, September 16, 2024

New book publication by Dr Falco Pfalzgraf

Date added: Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Prof Leigh Oakes teaches at summer school in Bratislava, Slovakia

Language policy and planning: concepts, theories, methods

Date added: Monday, September 2, 2024

Prof Leigh Oakes delivers keynote lecture at Aberystwyth University

From the pioneer years to the latest methodological trends: what next for language policy and planning research?

Date added: Sunday, July 21, 2024

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf organised and led the International Conference “Language and Gender: Research and Desiderata”

Selected academics presented papers covering 12 European languages. In total, 126 participants registered for the conference. They were based in in 30 countries.

Date added: Friday, May 31, 2024

Public Introductory Lecture: SLLF Visiting Reader Dr Torsten Leuschner (Ghent)

is delighted to welcome Dr Torsten Leuschner (Ghent University) as Visiting Reader in SLLF. Torsten will be giving his introductory lecture "'Comes love, nothing can be done': on (Not) Putting the Verb First in English and German"

Date added: Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf presented a paper at the 16th bi-annual FGLS conference in Cambridge

Date added: Sunday, April 21, 2024

Funded PhD in French Sociolinguistics or Applied Linguistics

SLLF is delighted to announce a fully funded PhD studentship on linguistic integration in Quebec.

Date added: Monday, April 15, 2024

Leverhulme research project grant: ‘The ethics of linguistic integration: realities, expectations, prospects’

Queen Mary has been awarded a Leverhulme research project grant for a 3-year project beginning in September 2024 entitled ‘The ethics of linguistic integration: realities, expectations, prospects’. 

Date added: Friday, March 29, 2024

Russian Play 2024

Date added: Thursday, March 21, 2024

Publication of Rachel Randall’s new book "Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture"

Rachel Randall’s new book, Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture, was published by the University of Texas Press on 23 January 2024.

Date added: Wednesday, January 24, 2024

73rd Sephardic Culture finalists

Date added: Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf organised and led the International Conference “Language and Gender: Achieving Conceptual Clarity”

In total, 137 participants registered for the conference. They were based in in 39 countries.

Date added: Friday, January 19, 2024

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf organised and led the opening event of the International Research Network “Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation”

Directly contributing were 31 presenters, residing in 14 countries, working on 15 languages - and well beyond. In addition, there were another 51 attendees from 21 countries. The total number of 82 participants shows that the interest in this subject area is considerable.

Date added: Friday, November 17, 2023

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to present a paper at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Cultural Studies

Date added: Friday, September 29, 2023

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf organised and led the International Conference “Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective”

33 papers were presented by 46 speakers based in 17 countries. In total, 192 participants registered. They were based in 36 countries.

Date added: Friday, September 9, 2022

Education Awards

Employment Enhancement through Free Language Speaking Practice and Championing Student Voices

Date added: Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Kathryn's favourite spots in St Petersburg - Semester Abroad

Kathryn Hurley is a modern languages and cultures student, studying Russian. As a Turing scheme grant recipient, Kathryn studied abroad at St Petersburg state university last semester.

Date added: Thursday, January 20, 2022

Emeritus Professor Chris Pountain, with Irene Macías Fernández of the University of Bath, has published El mundo hispanohablante en textos / Reading the Spanish-Speaking World (London & New York: Routledge). The book, written entirely in Spanish, is a content-based textbook set at B2 and C1 levels (immediately post A-Level) which aims to develop command of the Spanish language and critical thinking skills through response to a series of texts originating from a number of different Spanish-speaking countries. A full description is available at https://www.routledge.com/El-mundo-hispanohablante-en-textos--Reading-the-Spanish-Speaking-World/Fernandez-Pountain/p/book/9780367349448. 

Date added: Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Education awards for Dr Elsa Petit and Trisha Mason

The French department and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film congratulate Dr Elsa Petit, who was voted Student Rep Champion 2015-16 at an award ceremony held at Draper's Hall

Date added: Saturday, March 19, 2016

Date added: Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Creative Careers: Media Summit

On Wednesday 24 November, the Careers team held their annual Media Summit, this time in partnership with No Turning Back who aim to to increase BAME representation within the UK PR, Communications, Marketing and Sports Marketing sectors.

Date added: Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Alumna commended by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

Alumna, Gabriella Castillo, was commended by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last month at a Joint Ministerial Council reception.

Date added: Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Happy Birthday Niedersachsen

Former Queen Mary doctoral graduate Dr. John Goodyear presents German TV documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of Lower Saxony

Date added: Tuesday, November 2, 2021

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PhD Studentship in Catalan Studies

Balearic Islands Doctoral Studentship in Catalan Studies The Centre for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, invites applications for a Doctoral Studentship in any aspect of Catalan Studies.

Date added: Thursday, June 11, 2020

Prof. Leigh Oakes awarded grant for project on 'The ethics of language policy and planning'

Date added: Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Reconfiguring Relationships: Britain and the Bauhaus

A one-day research workshop at Tate Britain, co-organised by Emilie Oléron Evans, explores the material, textual, and historiographical legacies of the Bauhaus

Date added: Thursday, October 17, 2019

Rüdiger Görner interviewed by Deutschlandfunk

Prof. Görner (German) on Brexit, an interview with national radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.

Date added: Wednesday, September 25, 2019

A series of talks by Maya Slater and Nicolas Pasternak Slater to introduce a new translation of 'Doctor Zhivago'

Date added: Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Eddie Hughes, Professor in French, has been made a Fellow of the British Academy

Date added: Tuesday, August 20, 2019

New book by Elza Adamowicz: 'Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground'

Date added: Friday, May 3, 2019

The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations welcomes Judith Kuckart as Writer in Residence

Date added: Friday, November 16, 2018

Major initiative of Modern Languages and Cultures collaborating with the José Saramago Foundation in Lisbon

Date added: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

MLC welcomes Russian filmmaker Sergei Kachkin

On Wednesday 17 October, The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, QMUL, will be screening Perm 36. Reflexion. A documentary film by Sergei Kachkin (7pm, Arts One, G.19 The Hitchcock Theatre). Sergei Kachkin will be in attendance and give a Q&A about the film, following the screening. All welcome.

Date added: Friday, September 21, 2018

Excellent National Student Survey Results

Languages have scored highly in the 2018 National Student Survey, following on from impressive 2017 results.  The survey questioned UK undergraduates on various aspects of the student experience, including their overall satisfaction. French at QMUL was ranked top in London for overall student satisfaction. Iberian Studies, which includes Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish, was also top in London with an overall satisfaction rating of 97.1 per cent, which puts QMUL first in the Russell Group for this subject. German was ranked second in London and had an overall satisfaction rating of 94 per cent, above an average of 86 per cent.

Date added: Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Prof. Schonle elected fellow of the British Academy

Date added: Friday, July 21, 2017

Prof. Rüdiger Görner received the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)

Date added: Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Social Condenser - New special issue edited by Michał Murawski and Jane Rendell

Date added: Monday, June 5, 2017

Autobiographical Experiments

Dr Anna Kemp has been awarded a year-long Leverhulme Research Fellowship to complete her book Oulipography: Life as Creative Constraint. 

Date added: Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Professor Edward Hughes speaks at the Collège de France

On 13 June 2013, Professor Edward Hughes gave a talk at the Collège de France.

Date added: Friday, June 21, 2013

Dr Leigh Oakes discusses 'Langue, citoyenneté et identité au Québec'

Dr Leigh Oakes discusses his book Langue, citoyenneté et identité au Québec.

Date added: Friday, June 21, 2013

Professor Jordan to become Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing

Professor Shirley Jordan has been invited to become Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (CCWW).

Date added: Thursday, October 13, 2016

Critical lives - Albert Camus lecture by Professor Edward Hughes

Professor Edward Hughes will be giving a lecture on Albert Camus.

Date added: Thursday, October 13, 2016

Anna Ananieva on cultural news coverage in Prague and Budapest

Dr Ananieva presents a paper on the early journalistic work of the Habsburgian composer, music historian and critic August Wilhelm Ambros (1816–1876)

Date added: Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Prof Schönle and Dr Ananieva on Nikolay Karamzin’s Writing

Andreas Schönle and Anna Ananieva joined the international conference organized by the Institute of Russian Literature – Pushkin House – Russian Academy of Sciences.

Date added: Tuesday, January 3, 2017

QMUL Russian Film Season: Revolution or ‘Catastrophe’ 1917-1991

QMUL Russian Department is coordinating a Film Season to Mark the anniversaries of 1991 and 1917

Date added: Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Michal Murawski to speak on Palmyra and Putin

Dr Michal Murawski will present a talk at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, on 31 October at 18:30. His talk is entitled "Late Putinist Hellenism? Zombie Monumentality, from Palmyra to Moscow"

Date added: Tuesday, January 3, 2017

QMUL Russian Department 4th in the country

In the recent Complete University Guide, Queen Mary University of London's Department of Russian was ranked fourth in the country, the top Department in London.

Date added: Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Transcultural Critical Editing: Vernacular Poetry in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1450-1530

Professor Adrian Armstrong has been awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Date added: Monday, June 24, 2013

China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD studentship in French for 2015

The French Department is pleased to announce that it has been allocated one China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD studentship for entry in September 2015

Date added: Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Understanding foreign language motivation in a globalised world

Dr Leigh Oakes of the French Department and Dr Martin Howard of University College Cork (UCC) have been awarded a British Academy small grant for a project

Date added: Saturday, March 19, 2016

Dr Anna Kemp discusses 'Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism'

Dr Anna Kemp discusses her book Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism with Faculti Media.

Date added: Friday, June 21, 2013

Papers given at the Contemporary French & Francophone Studies colloquium

In March of this year, Professors Shirley Jordan and Edward Hughes were both in St Louis, Missouri in the American Midwest to present research papers at the Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

Date added: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Literary prize for new book on Albert Camus

Professor Edward Hughes has been nominated joint winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize 2015 for his new book

Date added: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Laetitia Calabrese voted Teacher of the Year

The French department and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film congratulate Laetitia Calabrese, who was voted Teacher of the Year 2014-15 at an award ceremony held at Draper's Hall on Monday.

Date added: Saturday, March 28, 2015

Teaching stars

The Department is delighted that the teaching of two of its members of staff was highly commended at the QM Students Union Education Awards

Date added: Friday, June 21, 2013

Debating victory for Queen Mary French students

The French department and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film congratulate Chiara Scurati, Annabelle Vassel, Edoardo Fiora and María Fernandez Amado

Date added: Saturday, March 19, 2016

Dr Hicks awarded book prize

Dr. Jeremy Hicks has been awarded the 2013 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

Date added: Tuesday, October 15, 2013

First Symposium on the feminization of the literature by Brazilians abroad

Professor Else Vieria is the organizer of the first symposium on the feminization of the literature by Brazilians abroad, as part of the project “A Literature out of the Tropics".

Date added: Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Conference on Judeo-Spanish and Sephardi Studies

The conference on Judeo-Spanish and Sephardi Studies will take place at Queen Mary 5-7 September 2016.

Date added: Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Dr Rhiannon McGlade presents her book at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona

Following the successful launch of her new book Catalan Cartoons: A Cultural and Political History (University Wales Press) at QM in February, outgoing Catalan Research Fellow Dr Rhiannon McGlade was

Date added: Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Linguistic justice and public policy in Quebec

Date added: Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Visual Culture and 'Interruption' in Global Cities

Date added: Thursday, June 27, 2013

'Interrupting the Street': Visiting Fellowship in Amsterdam

Date added: Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Dr Ananieva spoke on Russian garden history

Date added: Tuesday, March 8, 2016

NSS 2016

Date added: Friday, August 12, 2016

Professor Trevor Dadson invited to a round table discussion on Hispanism in the UK at the II Festival Internacional de la Lengua, la Cultura y el Ocio

Date added: Thursday, March 24, 2016

Professor Trevor Dadson taking part in conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Cervantes and Shakesperare

Date added: Monday, April 4, 2016

L'Hex: a new online magazine by French students at Queen Mary

Date added: Friday, June 21, 2013

Stellar results for Department of French in 2015 National Student Survey

Date added: Wednesday, August 12, 2015

NSS 2016 Results

Date added: Friday, August 12, 2016

New French department blog

Date added: Monday, February 15, 2016

New MA Bursary in Comparative Literature with French

Date added: Thursday, June 23, 2016

Ses Honorables Virtuts Il·lògiques bring their artistic talent to Queen Mary

Last week, the Centre for Catalan Studies had the pleasure of welcoming Ses Honorables Virtuts Il·lògiques, an artistic duo from Eivissa (Ibiza), for their first performances in the UK—at Cardiff University and Queen Mary University of London.

Date added: Saturday, April 12, 2025

Dr Elsa Petit Discusses AI, Language Education and the Future of Modern Languages on the Language Lab Podcast

Dr Elsa Petit, Senior Lecturer in French Language Studies at the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, is featured in a new episode of the Language Lab Podcast (https://languagelabpodcast.co.uk/) hosted by Will Marks.

Date added: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Dr Amanda Cole gives first Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar of the year

For the first Guest Speaker Seminar of 2026-7, Dr Amanda Cole (Cambridge) gave a wonderful talk entitled What is an accent? Dr Cole discussed the socio-historical situation of accent labels like Cockney, SSBE, Estuary English and MLE. 

Date added: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Six Queen Mary student films to screen at the inaugural Turn Up Film Festival

Six films from the Queen Mary 2026 cohort, across BA and MA programmes, will be screened at the inaugural Turn Up Film Festival and Industry Summit this coming January.

Date added: Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Falco Pfalzgraf presents research on linguistic purism and gender-inclusive language at the University of Marburg

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf, Reader in German Linguistics (MLCL/STA), has been invited to present his research on linguistic purism and resistance to gender-inclusive language at an academic workshop at the University of Marburg, Germany, 29-30 October 2026.

Date added: Wednesday, October 28, 2026

A performance of 'Etty' by Susan Stein

On Sunday 2 August 2026, Dr Rebekah Vince hosted a performance of Etty, a one-woman show by actor Susan Stein, in St Benet's Chaplaincy at Queen Mary University of London.

Date added: Thursday, August 27, 2026

An Evening with Writer in Residence Tim Staffel, 21 October 2026

The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) and the German Section of the Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature (MLCL) invite you to an evening with our current Writer in Residence, Tim Staffel, on Wednesday, 21 October 2026.

Date added: Monday, October 19, 2026

Tim Staffel joins Queen Mary as CAGCR Writer in Residence

The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) and the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature (MLCL) at Queen Mary University of London welcomes German novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Tim Staffel as its Writer in Residence for autumn 2026.

Date added: Monday, October 12, 2026

Francosphères special issue on Francophone Afrotopias goes live online

We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Francosphères, co-edited by Dr Rebekah Vince and Prof Martin Munro, is a special issue on Francophone Afrotopias, guest-edited by Dr Michelle Bumatay, is now available online (table of contents below). Published by Liverpool University Press, Francosphères is an interdisciplinary, open access, bilingual journal that is essential reading for those working in and researching French-speaking cultures across the world.

Date added: Monday, August 10, 2026

Dr Petit, Dr Calabrese and Dr Cox represented the School of the Arts at the Russell Group Teachers and Advisers Conference

Dr Petit, Dr Calabrese and Dr Cox represented the School of the Arts at the Russell Group Teachers and Advisers Conference which QMUL hosted on 22nd June 2026.

Date added: Monday, July 13, 2026

School of the Arts at QMUL Festival of Education

On 9th June 2026, several School of the Arts colleagues attended QMUL Festival of Education.

Date added: Monday, July 13, 2026

Dr Elsa Petit Delivers Keynote on Generative AI in Language Teaching at LEAP Conference

On 25th June 2026, Dr Elsa Petit delivered a keynote plenary talk at this year’s Aberdeen Language Education, Acquisition and Policy (LEAP) Conference. Her paper was entitled: Generative AI in Language Teaching: From Disruption to Transformation A Reflective Perspective.

Date added: Monday, July 13, 2026

Dr Elsa Petit participates in 'Le français, langue d’avenir' conference

On 16th June 2026, Dr Elsa Petit, Senior Lecturer in French Language Studies, took part in a conference on “Le français, langue d’avenir”, hosted by the University of Surrey. This was an in-person event in Guildford organised jointly by colleagues from the School of Literature and Languages in UoS, the French Embassy in the UK, and the Institut français du Royaume-Uni.

Date added: Monday, July 13, 2026

Prof. Armstrong participated in the 'Creative Translation in the Age of AI' conference, UEA

Prof. Armstrong gave a paper at a conference on 'Creative Translation in the Age of AI' that took place at the University of East Anglia 28th-29th May.

Date added: Thursday, June 4, 2026

Funded PhD available: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship

Inner Wear: Domestic Dress and Clothing Practices in the English Home (1870-2019)

Date added: Friday, May 15, 2026

Celebrating the Thames Estuary Production Corridor at Queen Mary

The Thames Estuary Production Corridor Skills Summit formed the centrepiece of a wider event hosted by Greater London Authority, Creative Estuary and Queen Mary University of London, marking nine years since the launch of the Thames Estuary Production Corridor.

Date added: Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Engaging Author Reading with our Writer in Residence Mithu Sanyal

An engaging author reading by our CAGCR Writer in Residence, Mithu Sanyal, brought staff, students, and guests together for a lively evening at QMUL.

Date added: Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf (German/MLCL) brings together academics and practitioners to examine the current backlash against gender-inclusive language

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf organised and executed the international two-day conference “Backlash? Gender-Inclusive Language in a Time of Resistance”. The 23 presentations covered over 12 languages, and the event was attended by 221 people based in 34 countries.

Date added: Friday, March 27, 2026

Screening for Holocaust Memorial Day: Bringing Etty Hillesum to Life

Date added: Tuesday, January 27, 2026

CAGCR Writer-in-Residence (spring 2026) Dr Mithu Sanyal

The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) at QMUL, housed in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature (MLCL), welcomes a Writer in Residence at least once a year. This semester’s Writer in Residence, Dr Mithu Sanyal, will be joining us for 10 weeks from 9 February.

Date added: Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Queen Mary Catalan Bookclub Hosts Author Núria Bendicho and Translator Maruxa Relaño to Discuss Dead Lands

The Queen Mary Catalan Bookclub met earlier this month, on 16 September, to discuss  Dead Lands, the disturbing new bestseller by the young writer, Núria Bendicho.

Date added: Monday, September 29, 2025

New book publication by Dr Falco Pfalzgraf

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf has published his new edited volume Gender-neutral, Gender-fair, Gender-inclusive. Towards Conceptual Clarity across European Languages with Palgrave Macmillan. The book is part of the “Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality” (series editors Helen Sauntson & Allyson Jule).

Date added: Monday, October 13, 2025

Prof Leigh Oakes delivers keynote address in Vienna, Austria

Normative language policy: a new framework for assessing linguistic justice in research and practice

Date added: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Joan Fontcuberta gives the 2025 Queen Mary Annual Catalan Lecture

Date added: Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak at a conference in Saarbrücken, Germany

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak on “German at Universities in England in Transition: Decline, Restructuring, and the Question of its Future” at the International Symposium on Teaching and Learning German Worldwide: Dynamic Perspectives and Current Developments in Saarbrücken, Germany, on Wednesday, 29 October 2025. All costs were kindly covered by the Language Council of Saarland.

Date added: Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak at a conference in Trier, Germany

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf was invited to speak on “Linguistic Purism as a Controversial Discourse: Neopurist Tendencies in Germany since 1990” at the international conference Language History as Contemporary History since 1990, held on 6 November 2025 in Trier, Germany. All costs were kindly covered by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Date added: Thursday, November 6, 2025

Prof. Nicholls Delivers Invited Lecture at the University of Macau

Professor Angus Nicholls delivered a talk at the University of Macau on 6 November 2025. His lecture, titled From Technological to Digital Reproducibility: Teaching Literature in the Age of A.I., was part of the Department of English Distinguished Lecture Series.

Date added: Monday, December 8, 2025

Professor Jacqueline Hurtley gives the 2025 Joanot Martorell Lecture at the Centre for Catalan Studies

Professor Jacqueline Hurtley of the University if Barcelona is an expert on Catalan publishing and the biographer of Walter Starkie. Her lecture “Translation or transcreation? English-language authors, Catalan translators and publishers, 1920–1938” covered writers such as George Eliot and Joseph Conrad. There were cases of adaptation, as to be expected, but also almost moral censorship transforming texts into the opposite of their meaning. 

Date added: Tuesday, November 18, 2025

German staff and students came together for their annual Christmas festivities

On 2nd December, German staff and students came together for their annual Christmas festivities - a fun evening filled with Christmas music, decorations and traditional German treats like Lebkuchen, Stollen, Plätzchen and Glühwein.

Date added: Tuesday, December 2, 2025

QMUL’s German Society holds Christmas Party at “Munich Cricket Club” in the Docklands

On 4th December 2025, QMUL’s German Society held its Christmas party at the “Munich Cricket Club” in London’s Docklands.

Date added: Thursday, December 4, 2025

An International Conference Honours our Honorary Research Fellow Dr Jane Whetnall

A whole conference in February at the University of Rennes will be designated a homage to our Honorary Research Fellow in Hispanic Studies, Dr Jane Whetnall. 

Date added: Thursday, February 5, 2026

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf’s 8th book has just been published

The hardcover edition of Dr Falco Pfalzgraf’s edited volume "Gender-Inclusive Language: Findings from 14 Languages and Open Research Questions" was published on Monday 26th January 2026 by De Gruyter. It is Volume 47 in the series "Trends in Applied Linguistics (TAL)" and Falco’s 8th book.

Date added: Monday, January 26, 2026

Troubling Memories and Forgotten Futures: A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean (2023)

Date added: Monday, February 23, 2026

Introducing Mysticas: Meditating with Mystics across the Traditions in Today’s Context

How can we learn from the wisdom of women from the past in finding inner peace to radiate outwards in our world today?

Date added: Monday, February 23, 2026

Hispanic Research Journal: 25th Anniversary Collection

Date added: Friday, March 13, 2026

ESRC project Generations of London English launches website

Date added: Friday, February 28, 2025

Kathleen McCarthy and her collaborators at UCL SHaPS and QMUL Engineering are awarded an ESRC grant to build a new recording device that helps track early language acquisition in multilingual infants and adults

Date added: Monday, November 25, 2024

Global Digital Futures book series launches

Dr Cristina Moreno Almeida, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures & Arabic Cultural Studies and IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary, is editing a new book series with University of Exeter Press.

Date added: Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Six of the best novels of 2025

Dr Tessa Whitehouse, Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature at Queen Mary spoke to The Conversation about a novel that will make you think twice about getting a mani-pedi…

Date added: Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Health Inequalities: Towards a Reparative Glossary

Drs Kasia Mika and Shital Pravinchandra (Comparative Literature) have successfully been awarded a grant by QMUL's Championing Interdisciplinary Research Culture (CIRCLE) scheme. The project is entitled "Health Inequalities: Towards a Reparative Glossary" and we will be holding several events over 2026.

Date added: Monday, January 26, 2026

Centre for Catalan Studies Welcomes Paula Espinosa Velasco as Visiting Research Associate

We are happy to welcome Paula Espinosa Velasco from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, who will be joining us for a 3-month stay as Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Catalan Studies. She is working on the translation of North American literature with Professor John London.

Date added: Thursday, February 5, 2026

AI and Film Masterclass with Rahul Puri

“It’s important to find a balance between using AI and human creativity”, says India’s top film school director at Queen Mary University of London  Rahul Puri, Director of Academics at Whistling Woods International—India’s top film school and one of the world’s top 10 film schools—recently delivered a masterclass on AI and Film at Queen Mary’s School the of Arts. The session, chaired by Professor Anat Pick, Head of the Department of Film, was part of a growing academic partnership between the two institutions.  

Date added: Tuesday, February 18, 2025