by Talking Humanities | Mar 8, 2021 | Languages & Literature
Challenging the male canon means recognising that women’s writing is not a genre reserved for women readers, and that there are no ‘women’s topics’, says Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, co-director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW)....
by Talking Humanities | Dec 5, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Republished, Research & Resources, Training and Research
The purpose of Eduardo Ho-Fernández’s two months at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) at the School of Advanced Study was to expand on two Renaissance research projects on intersections in linguistic and literary analysis. But he gained much more than...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 23, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Of the thousands of propaganda posters produced during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), one stands out for Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri, a lecturer in the School of English, University of St Andrews. This anonymous poster, which is signed R A and was produced for the...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 16, 2016 | Director Series, Fellowships & Networks, Interviews, Languages & Literature
We talk to the director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) about her desire for the institute to take the lead in putting modern languages high on the government’s agenda and the importance of modern languages research in multilingual, globalised...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 27, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Languages & Literature
Dr James Hadley, an early career researcher in translation and translingual studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), is on a mission to point out what we don’t know about the ways people produce, appreciate, and use translations. I want to show...
