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 he bargained for, and ‘strongly encourages’ pre-doctoral scholars to look into the many […]
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 dissident-Marxist, Trotskyite party, the POUM, features a woman holding what appears […]
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 world dominated by conflict, miscommunication and misunderstanding.
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 how translation underpins everything we do in the 21st century, and […]
