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Research in French

The French group at Cambridge produces world-leading research in a very wide range of areas in French Studies (French literature from early medieval texts to contemporary French writing, the history of the language and linguistics, early modern and modern French thought, cultural history, and cinema).

Cutting-edge international research is fostered in an environment that provides exceptional research facilities and extensive opportunities for exchange and debate in seminars and colloquia. Mentoring and close collaboration have facilitated the cohesion of a changing and dynamic community of researchers who carry forward a long tradition of excellence. The intellectual breadth of Cambridge French is reflected in its various thriving research areas:

History of the French Language and French Linguistics; Early and Late Medieval French and Occitan; Renaissance and Neo-Latin studies; Early Modern French; Nineteenth-century Cultural History; Modern French Thought and Philosophy; Film and Visual Culture.

Research Projects

Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France

This project was awarded a substantial research grant of £850,652 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to investigate the nature of multiple francophone literary cultures, centred not on France (often meaning Paris) but on two other important axes for the transmission of francophone textual culture: one that goes from England across Flanders, Burgundy and beyond; and another across the Alps to Northern Italy, into the Mediterranean and further afield to Cyprus and the Levant.  

Project outputs will include an online database, a series of seminars and conferences, publications, and an exhibit at the Cambridge University Library. It will run until September 2014 and includes four investigators: Simon Gaunt (PI, King's London), Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge French), Jane Gilbert (University College London), and Paul Vetch (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, KCL); two Research Associates: Nicola Morato (Cambridge) and Dirk Schoenaers (UCL); and a Research student, David Murray (MML alumnus in French and German, now at KCL).

Latest News

Professor Charles Forsdick elected Corresponding Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities

27 November 2023

We are pleased to share that Professor Charles Forsdick has been elected a corresponding fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

MMLL Alumnus give talk at Magdalene College

21 November 2023

We are pleased to invite you to the talk, 'The Teacher as Anti-Hero', presented by Professor Nicholas Harrison, alumnus of MMLL.

Former MMLL student, Oliver Wilson, wins French Screen Studies essay prize

16 November 2023

We are pleased to share that Oliver Wilson, a former MMLL undergraduate and MPhil student in ELAC has won an essay competition run by the journal ' French Screen Studies .'

MMLL Cambridge to participate in prestigious Prix Goncourt

3 November 2023

We're pleased to share that the prestigious Prix Goncourt, the francophone equivalent of the Booker Prize, is coming to Cambridge! The laureate will be announced at an event hosted at the French Embassy on March 22, where representatives from 15 UK universities will gather, including two delegates from MMLL.

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