PhDs in Modern Languages and Cultures

MLC hosts or contributes to a number of flourishing Research Centres:

• Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (directed by Rüdiger Görner), which also runs the ‘Writers-in-Residence’ programme
• Centre for Catalan Studies (directed by John London)
• Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (co-directed by Rosa Vidal Doval)
• Centre for the History of Emotions (co-directed by Elena Carrera)
• Centre for Poetry 

Seminar series:

• Iberian and Latin American Research Seminar
• Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
• BASF Lecture Series on Anglo-German Matters
• Anglo-German Research Colloquium
• Queen Mary Catalan Seminars (Centre for Catalan Studies)
• Translation, Transmission and Cultural Transfer, jointly organised with the Department of Comparative Literature
• Visual & Material Forum, jointly organized with the School of History

Major yearly lectures:

• The Angermion Annual Lecture (German)
• The BASF Lecture Series (German)
• The Camões Annual Lecture (Hispanic Studies)
• The Catalan Annual Lecture (Hispanic Studies)
• The Kate Elder Lecture (Hispanic Studies)
• The Malcolm Bowie Lecture, held alternately at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (French)

Publications

• Hispanic Research Journal
• Garnett Press
• Angermion

In addition to high-quality supervision in French, German, Russian, Hispanic Studies (Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish), Visual Cultures and Translation, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures has particular supervision strengths in the following areas:

• Cultural Memory/ Cultural Memory and Censorship: Adrian Armstrong, Jeremy Hicks, Else Vieira
• Cultural Transfer: Astrid Köhler, Robert Gillett, Rüdiger Görner, John London, Emilie Oléron Evans
• Performance: John London, Robert Gillett
• Poetry and Poetics: Adrian Armstrong, Robert Gillett, Rüdiger Görner
• 20^th/21^st Century Literature: , Astrid Köhler, Robert Gillett
• Gender and/or Queer Studies: Robert Gillett, Else Vieira, Xumeng Xie
• History of Thought: , Rüdiger Görner, Angus Nicholls
• Migration: Parvati Nair, Else Vieira
• Linguistics: Falco Pfalzgraf, Luisa Martí, Leigh Oakes
• Digital Media and Cultures: Cristina Moreno Almeida, Xumeng Xie