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The University of Cambridge ranked first overall in the Complete University Guide for 2024, with Linguistics and all of the MMLL languages coming out on top in the subject league tables. 


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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.


Latest news

Faculty members launch Cambridge Translation Studies Network

30 October 2024

The Cambridge 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. It is convened by Prof Ángeles...

A Series of International Events on 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'

24 October 2024

We are delighted to announce a series of academic and public engagement initiatives aimed at celebrating the legacy of Carlo Collodi’s literary masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio in contemporary culture, co-organized by Murray Edwards College Fellow Elena Sottilotta (Italian section, MMLL Faculty) with Pablo a Marca (...

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

23 October 2024

Dr Emma Claussen (MMLL, Cambridge) 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...

Translation of Professor Mark Darlow's 'Staging the French Revolution' published

22 October 2024

Professor Mark Darlow's 2012 book Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794 (New York: Oxford University Press) has just appeared in Chinese translation with Orpheus Music Series. The book was runner-up for the Gapper Prize of the Society for French Studies and has established itself...