Research

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Linguistics is a world-leading research hub linked to national and international research networks. Within the Faculty, the Department of Applied Linguistics (DTAL) is home to excellent Research Facilities. 

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), the Faculty, assessed jointly with the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC), was rated in the highest terms. Find out more about research in ASNC.

Research in the language sections within the Faculty (French, German, Italian, Slavonic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese) covers every period from the medieval to the contemporary, and includes research in related language areas (e.g. Ukrainian, Polish, Modern Greek, and Catalan). It incorporates the study of literature, history, thought, and culture, as well as of visual arts and film where research is concentrated, though not exclusively located, in Film and Visual Studies. The Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (DTAL) covers a comprehensive range of the language sciences and offers theoretical and empirical research in fields from historical linguistics and comparative syntax to language processing and computational linguistics.

 

Literature, Visual Culture and the Arts:

  • Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
  • Contemporary Culture and Society
  • Drama, Music and Performance
  • Environmental Criticism and Posthumanism
  • Film and Visual Culture
  • Gender, Feminism and Queer Studies
  • Intellectual and Cultural History
  • Literary Theory, Philosophy and Political Thought
  • Material Culture and History of the Book
  • Poetry, Rhetoric and Poetics
  • Memory Studies
  • Politics and Cultural Politics
  • Literary Studies

  • Medieval and Early Modern Studies 

     

Language and Linguistics:

  • Comparative Syntax
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Dialectology
  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Language Acquisition
  • Language Change
  • Language Contact
  • Multilingualism
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Semantics, Pragmatics and Philosophy
  • Translation Theory and Practice

Research Funding

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics supports funding applications from internal and external applicants at any career stage for projects held within our Faculty. The first point of contact for new applications is the Faculty’s Research Grants Coordinator: 

researchadmin@mmll.cam.ac.uk

The Research Grants Coordinator and the relevant Director of Section should be contacted about any potential research grant application at the earliest opportunity for support with the application and costing.

Further information about funding and support can be found on the School of Arts and Humanities Research webpages.