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Latest news

Cambridge MMLL presents at Goethe Institut Career Roadshow

2 October 2024

Professor Silke Mentchen and Dr Mary Boyle represented the Faculty’s German section at the Goethe Institut Career Roadshow in central London on Friday 27 September. Prof Mentchen and Dr Boyle delivered three sessions to packed audiences, covering the study of German at Cambridge, AI, and the future of languages. More...

Year Abroad to be focus of 17 October event

1 October 2024

The Year Abroad, which undergraduates in Modern & Medieval Languages and History & Modern languages typically undertake in their third year, is to be the focus of a 17 October event hosted by Fitzwilliam College. Speaking at the event will be Professor Charles Forsdick , Drapers Professor of French at the Faculty...

New book on Christian Petzold

20 September 2024

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

9 August 2024

Ruth Murphy is a PhD candidate in Italian at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literature, University of Cambridge. 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...