Understanding cultures, connecting worlds. Our research explores how languages, texts, ideas, and cultural practices shape societies across time and place.
Find out more about this research partnership into culinary recipes and food culture.
Find out more about work on the future-oriented consequences of past-oriented study.
Our University-wide Research Centres and Institutes, together with our School Research and Interest Groups, play a vital role in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. They bring together expertise from across disciplines, creating opportunities for networking, collaborative research, funding development, external engagement, and impactful knowledge exchange.
We welcome applications for postgraduate study in the School’s language and research focus area, especially where there are potential links to relevant Durham Research Institutes and Centres or to our research groups
Discover the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' new Transformative Humanities framework which brings together distinctive approaches to humanities research and education within the academy and across a wide range of partners and communities.
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures presents a series on The Creative-Critical beginning in September 2026. Convened and organised by Professor Abir Hamdar, the series features an online symposium on The Creative-Critical and the Global South, an online panel on The Creative-Critical and Pedagogy: Research-Led Teaching, and a two-part, in-person workshop series on the lecture form, open to all Faculty of Arts and Humanities PGR students who have completed their first annual review.
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