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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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MLA Scaglione Prize Awarded to Cambridge’s Doyle D. Calhoun

3 December 2025

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to announce that Dr Doyle D. Calhoun, University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at Cambridge, has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for his book...

SIS Postgraduate Colloquium 2025 at Cambridge

1 December 2025

The Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to host the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium 2025, titled: Italian Literature and Culture Through a Comparative Lens: Transnational and Transhistorical Networks 5 December 2025 SG2, Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site...

Rifiabare: A Literary Geography Workshop

5 November 2025

Join us for an inspiring in-person workshop on Sardinian fairy tales on 15 November 2025 . Venue: Murray Edwards College, Long Room, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF Workshop leaders: Maria Luisa Mura and Francesca Nardi ( Ischìre – Collettivo mobile di geografia letteraria ) Organiser: Elena Sottilotta (Murray Edwards...