Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC)
@languagesdurham.bsky.social
We teach and research Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Japanese, Italian and Russian languages and cultures.
We are a World Top 70 language department (QS).
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/modern-languages-cultures/
We are a World Top 70 language department (QS).
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/modern-languages-cultures/
🎓 Final year? Stay with the University of the Year!
Join Progress to Postgrad on 12 Nov to explore courses, careers & funding — and maybe even get a provisional offer on the day 💜 👉 Book now: durhamuni.eventsair.com/progress-to-...
Join Progress to Postgrad on 12 Nov to explore courses, careers & funding — and maybe even get a provisional offer on the day 💜 👉 Book now: durhamuni.eventsair.com/progress-to-...
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🎓 Final year? Stay with the University of the Year!
Join Progress to Postgrad on 12 Nov to explore courses, careers & funding — and maybe even get a provisional offer on the day 💜 👉 Book now: durhamuni.eventsair.com/progress-to-...
Join Progress to Postgrad on 12 Nov to explore courses, careers & funding — and maybe even get a provisional offer on the day 💜 👉 Book now: durhamuni.eventsair.com/progress-to-...
🎓 Discover Durham Tours – October Half Term 2025
Prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to join Discover Durham Tours* on 27, 28, and 31 October 2025.
📌 Register and find more details here: durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove...
Prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to join Discover Durham Tours* on 27, 28, and 31 October 2025.
📌 Register and find more details here: durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove...
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🎓 Discover Durham Tours – October Half Term 2025
Prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to join Discover Durham Tours* on 27, 28, and 31 October 2025.
📌 Register and find more details here: durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove...
Prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to join Discover Durham Tours* on 27, 28, and 31 October 2025.
📌 Register and find more details here: durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove...
🍁 Durham alumna Mia Ainsley (Italian & Spanish) shares her favourite autumnal things to do in Durham. Read more: durham-student.org/autumnal-thi...
October 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🍁 Durham alumna Mia Ainsley (Italian & Spanish) shares her favourite autumnal things to do in Durham. Read more: durham-student.org/autumnal-thi...
Durham’s Prof Santiago Fouz Hernández hosted a Q&A with filmmaker Borja Cobeaga after Breaking Walls (2025) at the gala launch of the 12th Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.
October 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Durham’s Prof Santiago Fouz Hernández hosted a Q&A with filmmaker Borja Cobeaga after Breaking Walls (2025) at the gala launch of the 12th Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival.
Congratulations to our PhD student Claire Leibovich who has won a creative writing contest in French organized by the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust.
Claire won for her pastiche of La Bible de Sens.
www.amisdeproust.fr/fr/component...
Claire won for her pastiche of La Bible de Sens.
www.amisdeproust.fr/fr/component...
August 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Congratulations to our PhD student Claire Leibovich who has won a creative writing contest in French organized by the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust.
Claire won for her pastiche of La Bible de Sens.
www.amisdeproust.fr/fr/component...
Claire won for her pastiche of La Bible de Sens.
www.amisdeproust.fr/fr/component...
Congratulations to our colleague Fusako Innami, whose book
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
is runner-up for British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize 2025.
See further here:
bcla.org/cedric-van-d...
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
is runner-up for British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize 2025.
See further here:
bcla.org/cedric-van-d...
July 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Congratulations to our colleague Fusako Innami, whose book
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
is runner-up for British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize 2025.
See further here:
bcla.org/cedric-van-d...
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
is runner-up for British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize 2025.
See further here:
bcla.org/cedric-van-d...
Congratulations to Matthew Hilborn on the publication of Film Comedy and Spain!
The book results from Matthew's PhD entitled ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970–2020)’, written at Durham.
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
The book results from Matthew's PhD entitled ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970–2020)’, written at Durham.
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Congratulations to Matthew Hilborn on the publication of Film Comedy and Spain!
The book results from Matthew's PhD entitled ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970–2020)’, written at Durham.
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
The book results from Matthew's PhD entitled ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970–2020)’, written at Durham.
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Congratulations to our students who graduated this week. We are very proud of you all. Do keep in touch!
July 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Congratulations to our students who graduated this week. We are very proud of you all. Do keep in touch!
Congratulations to Claudia Dellacasa, lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Durham alumna, on winning the XXIV International Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies Luca Attanasio, for "Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs".
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Congratulations to Claudia Dellacasa, lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Durham alumna, on winning the XXIV International Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies Luca Attanasio, for "Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs".
We proud to be part of a World Top 100 University (QS World University Rankings 2026) - since 2010.
We’ve strengthened our academic reputation, are 64th globally for employability and 22nd for sustainability.
#QSWUR
We’ve strengthened our academic reputation, are 64th globally for employability and 22nd for sustainability.
#QSWUR
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We proud to be part of a World Top 100 University (QS World University Rankings 2026) - since 2010.
We’ve strengthened our academic reputation, are 64th globally for employability and 22nd for sustainability.
#QSWUR
We’ve strengthened our academic reputation, are 64th globally for employability and 22nd for sustainability.
#QSWUR
Durham Film Festival 2025: Celebrating Student Talent and International Voices
The 2025 Durham Film Festival took place from June 11th to 14th, transforming various venues across Durham into lively hubs celebrating cinema.
Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
The 2025 Durham Film Festival took place from June 11th to 14th, transforming various venues across Durham into lively hubs celebrating cinema.
Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
June 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Durham Film Festival 2025: Celebrating Student Talent and International Voices
The 2025 Durham Film Festival took place from June 11th to 14th, transforming various venues across Durham into lively hubs celebrating cinema.
Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
The 2025 Durham Film Festival took place from June 11th to 14th, transforming various venues across Durham into lively hubs celebrating cinema.
Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Our colleague Luke Sunderland (who performs as Luke Connell) brings a comedy show based on his research in medieval culture to the Durham and Newcastle Fringe festivals.
Luke's show offers something distinctive: a comic tour of the medieval world.
Full details here: linktr.ee/lukeconnell
Luke's show offers something distinctive: a comic tour of the medieval world.
Full details here: linktr.ee/lukeconnell
June 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Our colleague Luke Sunderland (who performs as Luke Connell) brings a comedy show based on his research in medieval culture to the Durham and Newcastle Fringe festivals.
Luke's show offers something distinctive: a comic tour of the medieval world.
Full details here: linktr.ee/lukeconnell
Luke's show offers something distinctive: a comic tour of the medieval world.
Full details here: linktr.ee/lukeconnell
🎉 Exciting news!
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
June 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🎉 Exciting news!
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has received an Athena Swan Silver Award 2025 – one of only two UK Arts & Humanities faculties to do so!
✅ Advancing gender equality
✅ Improving career development
✅ Strengthening leadership opportunities
@DurhamUniversity #DUInspire
MLAC’s Joss Morfitt recently presented a paper exploring the British Film Institute’s pioneering history of queer film programming. The paper was entitled “Anatomising Queer Curatorial Histories: ‘Images of Homosexuality’ and the BFI’s Legacy of Queer Film Programming”.
June 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
MLAC’s Joss Morfitt recently presented a paper exploring the British Film Institute’s pioneering history of queer film programming. The paper was entitled “Anatomising Queer Curatorial Histories: ‘Images of Homosexuality’ and the BFI’s Legacy of Queer Film Programming”.
All welcome to the Lucille Cairns Memorial Lecture 2025
“Children of the Ghetto and the Jewish East End”
Nadia Valman, Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London
9 June 2025, 4-5.30 pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College
“Children of the Ghetto and the Jewish East End”
Nadia Valman, Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London
9 June 2025, 4-5.30 pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College
June 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
All welcome to the Lucille Cairns Memorial Lecture 2025
“Children of the Ghetto and the Jewish East End”
Nadia Valman, Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London
9 June 2025, 4-5.30 pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College
“Children of the Ghetto and the Jewish East End”
Nadia Valman, Professor of Urban Literature, Queen Mary University of London
9 June 2025, 4-5.30 pm, Lindisfarne Centre, St Aidan’s College
Congratulations to our colleague Ed Welch who has won the Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book Prize for his book "Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning".
Read the jury's statement praising the book here: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...
Read the jury's statement praising the book here: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...
May 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Congratulations to our colleague Ed Welch who has won the Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book Prize for his book "Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning".
Read the jury's statement praising the book here: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...
Read the jury's statement praising the book here: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...
Leslie Brooks Lecture and Roundtable, 6 June, St Cuthbert’s Society.
Lecture, 11am: Quan Zhou Wu, “About Race in Spain through Comics”.
Roundtable, 2pm: “Creative Practice Against Racism” with Jorge Catala-Carrasco.
All welcome; please register here by 27 May:
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Lecture, 11am: Quan Zhou Wu, “About Race in Spain through Comics”.
Roundtable, 2pm: “Creative Practice Against Racism” with Jorge Catala-Carrasco.
All welcome; please register here by 27 May:
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
May 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Leslie Brooks Lecture and Roundtable, 6 June, St Cuthbert’s Society.
Lecture, 11am: Quan Zhou Wu, “About Race in Spain through Comics”.
Roundtable, 2pm: “Creative Practice Against Racism” with Jorge Catala-Carrasco.
All welcome; please register here by 27 May:
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Lecture, 11am: Quan Zhou Wu, “About Race in Spain through Comics”.
Roundtable, 2pm: “Creative Practice Against Racism” with Jorge Catala-Carrasco.
All welcome; please register here by 27 May:
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Cinesisters: DU Contemporary Women Filmmakers Festival Series
Screening and discussion supported by Women@Durham, St Aidan’s College and MLAC.
Susan Frenk presents Children of Las Brisas (dir. Marianela Maldonado).
www.childrenoflasbrisas.com
Lindisfarne Centre, 4PM, 14 May.
Screening and discussion supported by Women@Durham, St Aidan’s College and MLAC.
Susan Frenk presents Children of Las Brisas (dir. Marianela Maldonado).
www.childrenoflasbrisas.com
Lindisfarne Centre, 4PM, 14 May.
May 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Cinesisters: DU Contemporary Women Filmmakers Festival Series
Screening and discussion supported by Women@Durham, St Aidan’s College and MLAC.
Susan Frenk presents Children of Las Brisas (dir. Marianela Maldonado).
www.childrenoflasbrisas.com
Lindisfarne Centre, 4PM, 14 May.
Screening and discussion supported by Women@Durham, St Aidan’s College and MLAC.
Susan Frenk presents Children of Las Brisas (dir. Marianela Maldonado).
www.childrenoflasbrisas.com
Lindisfarne Centre, 4PM, 14 May.
Book presentation!
The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition, 6pm, 8 May, St John's College
Yosefa Raz explores how Romantic poetry and biblical scholarship intertwine in the reinvention of prophecy, in conversation with Yael Almog.
www.durham.ac.uk/colleges-and...
The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition, 6pm, 8 May, St John's College
Yosefa Raz explores how Romantic poetry and biblical scholarship intertwine in the reinvention of prophecy, in conversation with Yael Almog.
www.durham.ac.uk/colleges-and...
May 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Book presentation!
The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition, 6pm, 8 May, St John's College
Yosefa Raz explores how Romantic poetry and biblical scholarship intertwine in the reinvention of prophecy, in conversation with Yael Almog.
www.durham.ac.uk/colleges-and...
The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition, 6pm, 8 May, St John's College
Yosefa Raz explores how Romantic poetry and biblical scholarship intertwine in the reinvention of prophecy, in conversation with Yael Almog.
www.durham.ac.uk/colleges-and...
Marking three decades of collaboration with @institutocervantes.bsky.social, we hosted a screening of the Spanish film The Teacher Who Promised the Sea last week, followed by a Q&A with the director, Patricia Font.
It was great to have a full house at the Tyneside Cinema!
Part of #duglobalweek.
It was great to have a full house at the Tyneside Cinema!
Part of #duglobalweek.
March 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Marking three decades of collaboration with @institutocervantes.bsky.social, we hosted a screening of the Spanish film The Teacher Who Promised the Sea last week, followed by a Q&A with the director, Patricia Font.
It was great to have a full house at the Tyneside Cinema!
Part of #duglobalweek.
It was great to have a full house at the Tyneside Cinema!
Part of #duglobalweek.
During National Careers Week, north-east students encouraged Spanish tourists to put Bishop Auckland on their itinerary in the Spanish Apprentice challenge – a competition designed to develop language skills, boost confidence, and promote regional tourism.
expressyourselfne.com/2025/03/08/y...
expressyourselfne.com/2025/03/08/y...
March 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
During National Careers Week, north-east students encouraged Spanish tourists to put Bishop Auckland on their itinerary in the Spanish Apprentice challenge – a competition designed to develop language skills, boost confidence, and promote regional tourism.
expressyourselfne.com/2025/03/08/y...
expressyourselfne.com/2025/03/08/y...
Our second-year students recently arranged a coming of Ramadan celebration.
Along with Salima Jaljule and Aziza Zaher, students cooked traditional Arabic dishes after researching recipes and ingredients.
Many thanks to Lucy Chambers for organising and taking care of logistics.
Along with Salima Jaljule and Aziza Zaher, students cooked traditional Arabic dishes after researching recipes and ingredients.
Many thanks to Lucy Chambers for organising and taking care of logistics.
March 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Our second-year students recently arranged a coming of Ramadan celebration.
Along with Salima Jaljule and Aziza Zaher, students cooked traditional Arabic dishes after researching recipes and ingredients.
Many thanks to Lucy Chambers for organising and taking care of logistics.
Along with Salima Jaljule and Aziza Zaher, students cooked traditional Arabic dishes after researching recipes and ingredients.
Many thanks to Lucy Chambers for organising and taking care of logistics.
Our students of Russian invite you to a literary evening on Wednesday 12 March at 6pm in Elvet Riverside room 140.
All are welcome to this celebration of Russian and Russophone literature!
All are welcome to this celebration of Russian and Russophone literature!
March 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Our students of Russian invite you to a literary evening on Wednesday 12 March at 6pm in Elvet Riverside room 140.
All are welcome to this celebration of Russian and Russophone literature!
All are welcome to this celebration of Russian and Russophone literature!
The launch of Laura Leon Llerena's 'Launching Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes' is at Owengate from 3-4.30pm today.
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The launch of Laura Leon Llerena's 'Launching Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes' is at Owengate from 3-4.30pm today.
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
Join us for this workshop, which highlights the importance of correctly pronouncing people’s names.
The workshop will focus on English, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese, providing participants with hands-on practice in these languages.
Part of Durham University's Global Week.
#duglobalweek
The workshop will focus on English, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese, providing participants with hands-on practice in these languages.
Part of Durham University's Global Week.
#duglobalweek
February 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Join us for this workshop, which highlights the importance of correctly pronouncing people’s names.
The workshop will focus on English, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese, providing participants with hands-on practice in these languages.
Part of Durham University's Global Week.
#duglobalweek
The workshop will focus on English, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese, providing participants with hands-on practice in these languages.
Part of Durham University's Global Week.
#duglobalweek