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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

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Prospective Undergraduates

Thinking about studying Linguistics or Modern Languages? These are rich, intellectually rewarding fields, through which your degree course may chart one of many diverse routes, all fostering skills that are highly sought-after by top employers.


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Our academic staff are leaders in world-class scholarship and teaching, and conduct research in one or more of the following areas: linguistics, film and screen studies, history and thought, and literary and cultural studies.


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'Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550' Conference, 19-20 September 2025

24 July 2025

Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550 Trinity College, Cambridge, 19–20 September 2025 Generously supported by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, and the Society for Italian Studies. The conference will be livestreamed via Zoom; to register, please click here . In-person...

Teenage Diaries Reveal Private Lives Under Stalin’s Shadow

21 July 2025

Love, Fear, and Resistance: Teenage Diaries from Stalin’s Russia Unearthed by Cambridge Researcher What did it mean to be young in one of the most repressive regimes of the 20th century? A groundbreaking new study by Dr Ekaterina Zadirko (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge)...

PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies

11 July 2025

PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies Dr Javier Moreno-Rivero, who completed his PhD in Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in 2023 under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett , has been awarded the...