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A new case study highlighting the success of Cambridge spinout Trismik has been published as part of the Cambridge Enterprise Annual Review 2025 campaign.Trismik originated in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and reflects the strength of innovation emerging from Cambridge’s languages and linguistics community. The company’s fou…

The Society for French Studies announced that the winner of the 2025 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Isabel Maloney (University of Cambridge), for her essay, entitled ‘The Communard Family in Léon Cladel’s Censored Short Fiction’.The Jury adjudged ‘From Dragons to Divinators: Re-Imagining Muslim Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle’, by Saal…

The Poetics of Tao: French-Chinese Dialogues on Poetry, Art, and the Limits of Subjectivity took place on 22 November 2025 at Wolfson College, Cambridge. The conference brought together an international group of scholars to explore the dialogue between Taoist thought and modern French philosophy, literature, and visual art. Across keynote lectures …

Professor Sally Faulkner (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) has published a new blog post with Manchester University Press reflecting on her recent book The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism.In the post, Professor Faulkner explains her motivation for writing the book, beginning with the striking originality of Bartolomé’s work…

Professor María Noriega-Sánchez, Professor of Spanish and Translation Studies in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL), has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for 2026 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to teaching excellence.The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually to members of academic staff across the Un…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr. Doyle Calhoun, University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Fellow of Peterhouse, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library for the 2026–2027 academic year.Dr. Calhoun is one of o…

The MMLL Library is delighted to launch the HML/MML Year Abroad Photography Competition Exhibition. Designed in collaboration with Dott. Claudia Domenici and the MMLL Faculty, the exhibition brings together photography submitted to the MMLL Faculty’s Year Abroad Photo Competition over the last decade. It includes recent winners and other standout e…

On the occasion of Jordi Savall’s receipt of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (often described as the “Nobel Prize of Music”), this piece revisits a memorable encounter with the renowned musician at the University of Cambridge. In December 2014, Savall addressed graduate students and faculty in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, offering a lecture as…

Honouring Dr Isabelle McNeill’s legacy, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and Trinity Hall are establishing a studentship to support a talented MPhil student in Film and Screen Studies.Dr Isabelle McNeill was a brilliant scholar and inspiring teacher. Her work as supervisor, teacher, and researcher was felt across the Fac…

Tuesday, February 24, 6:00pmWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street, CambridgeWe invite you to a discussion with the acclaimed Polish writer Mariusz Szczygieł and translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones about Szczygieł's most recent collection of reportage in English translation, moderated by Cambridge's Professor of Polish Studies, Stanley …

CONFERENCE - Friday 24 AprilTranslating conflict and refuge: language, displacement, and the politics of representation – 24 April 2026 (part hybrid)Register to attend: Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation - CRASSHIn-person registration closes on 16 April 2026, online registration closes on 23 …

The fourth in a series of books on Jean Racine's theatre has just been published, co-edited by Nicholas Hammond, and containing essays by scholars around the world, including those by current and former members of the Faculty, Michael Moriarty, Suzanne Jones, and Carrie Heusinkveld. The book is free to consult online via the Cambridge University po…

The Italian Section and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge announce, with profound sorrow, the passing of Professor Giulio Lepschy, who died in London on Sunday 8 February 2026, at the age of 91. A scholar of unparalleled distinction, Professor Lepschy was a Fellow of the British Academy and …

The University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives (CULA) Communications team will be taking photos in the MMLL Library around midday on Tuesday 17th February.Imagery may be used to promote CULA libraries on social media channels, as well as online and in print. If you do not wish to appear, please make yourself known to the camera person or librar…