The School of Modern Languages & Cultures at Durham University invites expressions of interest from outstanding candidates who wish to apply for a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship through Durham University.

Kerstin Oloff, an Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies, has published a new monograph entitled 'Ecology of the Zombie'

A volume to which Dr Vika Ivleva contributed the article ‘In-Between the Global and the Local: Silk in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russia’ has been selected for the short list of the Association of Dress Historians (ADH), Book of the Year (BOTY) Award 2024!

As part of the VII Foundation’s stunning exhibition Monumental, Professor Jonathan Long was invited to speak on a panel exploring photography, nationalism and colonialism.

A new poll has revealed that kebabs have been voted the favourite food of football supporters attending Euro 2024, but how have they become so popular in Germany? Professor Daniel Newman, from our School of Modern Languages and Cultures, has taken a look at the origin of kebabs.

Rosi Song has been awarded a Horizon Europe Pillar II, Cluster 4 on Cultural Heritage 2024 grant of €3.8 million for RELISH (Reframing European gastronomy Legacy through Innovation, Sustainability and Heritage)

Dr Zoë Roth, an Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham, has been successful in her application for a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. The resulting project will provide a significant reassessment of the relationship between fascism and aesthetics.

Dr Fusako Innami, an Associate Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University, has received a Fulbright Award to enable her to research at the University of California (Berkeley) on one of the most well-regarded and impactful scholarship programmes in the world.

Our researchers are part of an exciting new project working to enhance museum visitor experience by using ground-breaking eye-tracking technology.

Durham University's Transformative Humanities launched yesterday and gathered more than 130 researchers, colleagues, students, and partners from across the region and beyond to celebrate this new interdisciplinary framework.

Dr Dušan Radunović has recently given talks at University College London and Södertörn University, Stockholm, on various aspects of Soviet cinema.

A Chinese translation of Professor Daniel Newman’s book 'An Imam in Paris' (London, 2004, 2011) has just appeared in Beijing (Zhejiang People's Press).