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Two new blog posts available via our Research Initiation Scheme. 1/2: Read final-year undergraduate student Ailish's write-up of the talk by Prof. Emily Zobel Marshall on The Power of Play: Comparative Caribbean Carnival Cultures from Leeds to Martinique: blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

All welcome at the next Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group Seminar, taking place this Friday 28 February at 3pm

Another event coming up next week! Inaugural lecture by Professor Sarah Bowskill (Professor of Latin American Studies) "Latin American Literature in Context" Thursday 6 March 2025, 5:30pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le…

As part of the "Translation Day" event taking place at the Seamus Heaney Centre today there is a session at 4pm featuring table reads of plays-in-translation, including The Shattered Tongue by Juan Mayorga, translated by QUB Modern Languages 's very own Dr Anne Holloway qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus…

The next blog post in our Research Initiation series, authored by undergraduates, is Ciarán's write-up of a seminar given by Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon) back in the autumn on "Hidden in Plain Sight: Amphion and the Dilemmas of Lyric Theory": blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

I’ll be introducing the 14th April 6pm showing of La Haine Queen's Film Theatre noting developments in depictions of ethnicity, gender and police violence in the banlieues from 1995 until 2024’s stage retelling La Haine: jusqu’ici rien n’a changé. QUB Modern Languages queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-on/La-Ha…

Currents in Crime Fiction: Trans-Atlantic Translations 25 March, 4-7pm, Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB "Join us for a brilliant two part event where crime fiction experts and novelists discuss the knotty issue of translation and influence" eventbrite.com/e/currents-in-…

The latest blog post in our CDRG Modern Languages at SAEL QUB Modern Languages Research Initiation series presents an interview by Ciarán, a final-year Spanish and Portuguese undergraduate, with Erin, an advanced-stage PhD student working across the same language pairing: blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

CDRG Modern Languages at SAEL QUB Here is a sneak preview! Read the full interview at blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

A new post in the CDRG Modern Languages at SAEL QUB Modern Languages Research Initiation Series, written by final-year undergraduates, is out. Read Máire Cáit's report on Doyle Calhoun's recent talk on "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire": blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

🧵1/3 The Department of Modern Languages at Queen’s University Belfast welcomes applications from outstanding Early Career Researchers to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme 2026/2027. Full details of scheme and eligibility criteria: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdo…

2/3 The scheme opens on 2 July 2025 and the final deadline for submissions is 1 October 2025. Interested candidates should contact a potential mentor/supervisor at the earliest opportunity (find details of staff in Modern Languages here: qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/Co…).

3/3 To ensure highest level of institutional support, prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact both their proposed mentor and the Research Development Team ([email protected]) no later than 8 weeks prior to the scheme deadline of 1 October 2025.

First of two new blog posts today from our Research Initiation scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into research culture in Modern Languages. Máire Cáit interviews Dr Emma Humphries, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow: blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

Second of two new blog posts today from our Research Initiation scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into research culture in Modern Languages. Josh interviews Katie McNamee, PhD student in Irish blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…

Many congratulations and ¡enhorabuena! to our @modlangs_qub colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa Gabriel Sánchez for winning the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies prize for best monograph published in 2024 🥳🥳🥳

Our colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa Gabriel Sánchez receiving his prize for best monograph published in 2024 from the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies, at an event in Oviedo yesterday.

Another image of our colleague Professor Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa (centre) with his prize for best monograph published in 2024 from the Spanish Society for 18th-Century Studies, awarded yesterday in Oviedo Gabriel Sánchez

A further blog post from our Research Initiation Scheme, which aims to integrate final-year undergraduates into research culture, is live. Read Josh's write-up of the inaugural CDRG Modern Languages at SAEL QUB Emerging Voices in Modern Languages Lecture, by Radvan Markus: blogs.qub.ac.uk/cdrgmodlangsqu…