Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway
@llc-rhul.bsky.social
We are the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Based in the School of Humanities, we offer research-led degrees in Modern Languages, Comparative Literature & Culture, Liberal Arts.
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**Open Day next Weds 26th Nov, 2-4pm at Senate House** for the 2026-7 intake on the intercollegiate MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders. Register your place: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @llc-rhul.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
Open Day: University of London MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders
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November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
**Open Day next Weds 26th Nov, 2-4pm at Senate House** for the 2026-7 intake on the intercollegiate MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders. Register your place: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @llc-rhul.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Dalís', will be delivered on 11 November (online) by Dr. Alicia Kent of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Free and open to all! Full details here:
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Dalís', will be delivered on 11 November (online) by Dr. Alicia Kent of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Free and open to all! Full details here:
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
We are pleased to announce that @royalholloway.bsky.social will offer 3 studentships funded by the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) in 2026-27. Deadline for applications: 13 January 2026. Awards to start in September 2026.
Further details below.
Further details below.
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards
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November 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
We are pleased to announce that @royalholloway.bsky.social will offer 3 studentships funded by the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA) in 2026-27. Deadline for applications: 13 January 2026. Awards to start in September 2026.
Further details below.
Further details below.
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Do you want to boost your language students at A-level? Sign up to this webinar with Michael Slavinsky, founder of Languages For All, a charity which aims to increase the number of students at A-level & degree level from state schools. More info 👇: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/programme/we...
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Do you want to boost your language students at A-level? Sign up to this webinar with Michael Slavinsky, founder of Languages For All, a charity which aims to increase the number of students at A-level & degree level from state schools. More info 👇: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/programme/we...
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at
@royalholloway.bsky.social invites expressions of interest from potential applicants to the 2026 @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
Early Career Fellowship scheme. Details of the process and deadlines here 👇
@royalholloway.bsky.social invites expressions of interest from potential applicants to the 2026 @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
Early Career Fellowship scheme. Details of the process and deadlines here 👇
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, 2026
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London invites applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme, 2026.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at
@royalholloway.bsky.social invites expressions of interest from potential applicants to the 2026 @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
Early Career Fellowship scheme. Details of the process and deadlines here 👇
@royalholloway.bsky.social invites expressions of interest from potential applicants to the 2026 @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
Early Career Fellowship scheme. Details of the process and deadlines here 👇
Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455
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Another #language piece in the @theconversation.com @uk.theconversation.com (by our own @saschastollhans.bsky.social) focusing on #German and the benefit of language learning/of a curriculum that introduces students to #linguistics and linguistic concepts theconversation.com/learning-ger... #edusky
June 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Another #language piece in the @theconversation.com @uk.theconversation.com (by our own @saschastollhans.bsky.social) focusing on #German and the benefit of language learning/of a curriculum that introduces students to #linguistics and linguistic concepts theconversation.com/learning-ger... #edusky
Congrats 🎉to our doctoral student Gareth on the publication of a great article - read open access here 👇👇
NEW ARTICLE: 'Losing One’s Way: Poet as Nomadic Translator in Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and Drift' by Gareth Hughes. Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/Hughes-MLO @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Congrats 🎉to our doctoral student Gareth on the publication of a great article - read open access here 👇👇
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Welsh universities have always been centres of excellence in languages, German in particular - no more, it seems.
Cardiff is ditching excellent courses in German, Italian and Portuguese, and now Bangor is proposing the same for German and Chinese. Please sign / share the petition.
Cardiff is ditching excellent courses in German, Italian and Portuguese, and now Bangor is proposing the same for German and Chinese. Please sign / share the petition.
Sign the Petition
Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University
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June 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Welsh universities have always been centres of excellence in languages, German in particular - no more, it seems.
Cardiff is ditching excellent courses in German, Italian and Portuguese, and now Bangor is proposing the same for German and Chinese. Please sign / share the petition.
Cardiff is ditching excellent courses in German, Italian and Portuguese, and now Bangor is proposing the same for German and Chinese. Please sign / share the petition.
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On 27 May, 4-6pm, our annual collaborative postgraduate research seminar with the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social takes place (online, via MS Teams). All very welcome to join and listen to the six of our researchers discuss their projects. Details and a meeting link here.
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May 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On 27 May, 4-6pm, our annual collaborative postgraduate research seminar with the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social takes place (online, via MS Teams). All very welcome to join and listen to the six of our researchers discuss their projects. Details and a meeting link here.
@llc-rhul.bsky.social
@llc-rhul.bsky.social
This was excellent - congratulations to Joe and fellow panellists! Catch up with it via BBC Sounds if you missed it.
Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
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April 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This was excellent - congratulations to Joe and fellow panellists! Catch up with it via BBC Sounds if you missed it.
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Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
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Registration for Nineteenth-Century Legacies is open! Join us at Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham June 3rd) for excellent papers, plenary speakers, and a roundtable discussion. Complete form by 19th May to confirm attendance. forms.office.com/e/RdenySx4D3
April 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Registration for Nineteenth-Century Legacies is open! Join us at Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham June 3rd) for excellent papers, plenary speakers, and a roundtable discussion. Complete form by 19th May to confirm attendance. forms.office.com/e/RdenySx4D3
Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.
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Why did Salas Barbadillo actively contribute to soror Juana’s canonization bid & how were his writings shaped by censorship, patronage & the debate on Mary’s immaculacy? Find out in latest article by @arantzam.bsky.social of @llc-rhul.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Writing the Next Saint: Salas Barbadillo, Juana de la Cruz and the Politics of Saint-Making in Early Modern Spain*
Antonio Jerónimo Salas Barbadillo published his Triunfos de la beata soror Juana de la Cruz in 1621. This article discusses the politics of saint-making in the Madrid of the first quarter of the se...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Why did Salas Barbadillo actively contribute to soror Juana’s canonization bid & how were his writings shaped by censorship, patronage & the debate on Mary’s immaculacy? Find out in latest article by @arantzam.bsky.social of @llc-rhul.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This tree, near our building on campus, is quite the show stopper!
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This tree, near our building on campus, is quite the show stopper!
Out today: a new book by our colleague Jon on an essential German film classic!
It's UK publication day for my illustrated book about the Weimar film gem MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (1930). It appears in the BFI Film Classics series with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social with beautiful cover art by Federica Masini, and packs a lot into its 104 pages. 1/2
March 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Out today: a new book by our colleague Jon on an essential German film classic!
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Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
March 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
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In case of interest to London people - tickets (£6.50) now on sale for my talk / book launch at the BFI Reuben Library on Monday 14 April: 'New Writings: ‘People on Sunday’ and the Cultural Networks of Weimar Berlin'.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In case of interest to London people - tickets (£6.50) now on sale for my talk / book launch at the BFI Reuben Library on Monday 14 April: 'New Writings: ‘People on Sunday’ and the Cultural Networks of Weimar Berlin'.
Great to see our Centre for Visual Cultures here - do give them a follow!
At the end of a blue-sky week, we've arrived where the sky is hopefully bluer than it is on X. Looking forward to sharing our activities here! @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social #art #visualculture #filmstudies
March 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Great to see our Centre for Visual Cultures here - do give them a follow!
Spectacular afternoon on campus!
March 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Spectacular afternoon on campus!
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There's still time to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London in June, but the deadline is coming up fast! Applications are due Saturday, Mar. 15, so ⏰ is of the essence! See below for more details.
February 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There's still time to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London in June, but the deadline is coming up fast! Applications are due Saturday, Mar. 15, so ⏰ is of the essence! See below for more details.
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JLTS vol 11 nos 1-2 out now!
Special Issue: #Trauma and #Multilingualism in #Literature
Guest Editors: Marianna Deganutti and Sandra Vlasta
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Table of contents 👇
Special Issue: #Trauma and #Multilingualism in #Literature
Guest Editors: Marianna Deganutti and Sandra Vlasta
nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/journal/jour...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/54317
Table of contents 👇
February 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Updated Post: Top 5 French Reads IV Book Blast Presents https://buff.ly/4bi2xif
February 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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