NP Visiting Research - Modern Languages & Culture

Durham University

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures welcomes applications from academics and practitioners to its Visiting Scholars Programme. The School is widely-acknowledged to be one of the leading Schools of Modern Languages and Cultures in the UK. The School’s reach spans Europe, the Arab world, Russophone Eurasia, Hispanic America and the Far East, and their mutual socio-cultural, intellectual and linguistic relations. The School federates expertise to generate innovative research practices and activities that cross historical, geographical and methodological boundaries. The School’s research focuses on the transnational study of literatures, cultures and histories. Translation – understood in its broad sense of transmission, interpretation and sharing of languages, ideas and histories – underpins the School’s collective practices. It has particular research strengths in the following areas: medieval and early modern studies, visual arts and culture and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. Emergent areas of research are developed in the School’s collaborative research groups.