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Read more at: We've won a Silver Green Impact Award for 2021-2022
The Cambridge Green Challenge - NUS Green Impact scheme. This is to certify that MMLL was awarded a University of Cambridge Green Impact Silver Award, 2021-2022

We've won a Silver Green Impact Award for 2021-2022

We're proud to announce that we've achieved a Silver Green Impact Award for the second year running. We won't stop here and will be going for Gold in 2022-2023! To win our Award, we had to take action and make changes in a variety of areas. For example: We conducted a basic energy audit, to identify ways that we could save...


Read more at: Cambridge Language Collective Creative Writing Competition winner announced

Cambridge Language Collective Creative Writing Competition winner announced

We are thrilled to announce Sophie Clare's prose piece « je t’aime jusqu’aux étoiles » as the winner of the Cambridge Language Collective's French Creative Writing Competition! Well done to Jemimah Hawkes and Heather Magee, whose exceptional poems led the panel to award them joint second place. Congratulations to all...


Read more at: Elena Sottilotta awarded the Women's Studies Caucus Award of the American Association for Italian Studies
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Elena Sottilotta awarded the Women's Studies Caucus Award of the American Association for Italian Studies

Warmest congratulations to our PhD student Elena Sottilotta who has received the Women's Studies Caucus Award of the American Association for Italian Studies, awarded to the best research papers in Women's and Gender Studies presented by doctoral students and early-career scholars at the 2022 AAAIS Conference. Her paper “...


Read more at: Global Media: Sound, Image, Materiality - 10-11 June 2022, Queens’ College, Cambridge
Rosine Mbakam (left) and Pooja Rangan (right)

Global Media: Sound, Image, Materiality - 10-11 June 2022, Queens’ College, Cambridge

Image: Rosine Mbakam (left) and Pooja Rangan (right) Two of the most important developments in media studies in recent decades have been turns toward materiality, on the one hand, and global histories, on the other. In many ways, these developments may seem at odds: materiality and media archaeology have often privileged...


Read more at: Extension to postgraduate application deadline for Ukranian nationals

Extension to postgraduate application deadline for Ukranian nationals

Ukrainian nationals applying to any of the Faculty's PhD programmes, or to the MPhil programmes in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, or Film and Screen Studies, may be eligible for an extension of the application deadline to 16 June 2022. Please contact the Postgraduate Office (...


Read more at: Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover]
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Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover]

Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover] The Italian Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature...


Read more at: Cambridge’s global reputation in Modern Languages and Linguistics recognised in REF 2021

Cambridge’s global reputation in Modern Languages and Linguistics recognised in REF 2021

The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) have highlighted the global impact of Cambridge’s research in the field of Modern Languages and Linguistics. The Unit of Assessment, comprising Cambridge Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, far...


Read more at: "Donbas, Ukraine's ravaged heartland, has suffered eight years of warfare. Here's why Putin wants it"

"Donbas, Ukraine's ravaged heartland, has suffered eight years of warfare. Here's why Putin wants it"

Our associate professor of Ukrainian Studies, Rory Finnin, was interviewed for this CNN article.


Read more at: Phoebe Taylor Prize established to honour memory of language student
Phoebe Taylor, an MML student at Clare College from 2007-2011

Phoebe Taylor Prize established to honour memory of language student

The Spanish and Portuguese Section is honoured to announce the establishment of the Phoebe Taylor Prize for the Best Spanish or Portuguese Translation Project, which will be awarded from this academic year. The prize has been made possible thanks to a generous donation by Phoebe Taylor’s family.


Read more at: MMLL at the Cambridge Festival 2022
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MMLL at the Cambridge Festival 2022

The Cambridge Festival 2022 runs from 31 March to 10 April. It replaces the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas with a mixture of on online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. Find out which events the Faculty of Modern and...