Course summary

Research in Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) contributed fully to QMUL’s strong performance in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (the latest in the series of national evaluations of research in UK universities), as part of Modern Languages and Linguistics (UoA 28B: 3.04 GPA score). MLC hosts or contributes to a number of flourishing Centres: Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (directed by Professor Rüdiger Görner), which also runs the ‘Writers-in-Residence’ programme Centre for Catalan Studies (directed by Professor John London) Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (co-directed by Dr. Rosa Vidal Doval) Centre for the History of Emotions (co-directed by Dr. Elena Carrera) Centre for the Study of Migration (formerly directed by Professor Parvati Nair) Centre for Poetry (co-directed by Professor Omar Garcia) We also have strong connections with external research centres, groups and institutions, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Ramon Llull Institut (Catalan Studies), the Camões Institute for Cooperation and Language, and the University of London’s Institute of Modern Languages Research. Many of the research staff in MLC have held leadership roles in professional organizations associations, notably Professor Adrian Armstrong’s role as President of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (2014-17). MLC also benefits from the active involvement of a number of associated scholars, including Honorary and Visiting Research Fellows.