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.
Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway
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.
Congrats 🎉to our doctoral student Gareth on the publication of a great article - read open access 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
This week our wonderful colleague and current Head of Department Professor Ruth Hemus @rhemus.bsky.social will be on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time', discussing Dadaism. The show airs at 9am on Thursday 19 March, and will then be available online and via the BBC Sounds app. Don't miss!
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 👇
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.
**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...
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
Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London invites applications to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme, 2026.
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
🚨Following the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, we share thoughts on how a languages curriculum enriched with #linguistics can address challenges for languages study in schools theconversation.com/linguistics-... #edusky #langsky @languageonthemove.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.
