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MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures 2025/26

Lent term 2026 ModulesÌý

Each year, during the summer months before term starts, students are asked to pre-select two modules. TheÌýlist of modules offered can change from year to year depending on the availability of academic staff. Students are askedÌýfor back-up choices just in case modules are under or over-subscribed, but the facultyÌýendeavour to offer first preferences where possible.

Students are advised that, in cases where numbers are very small, a module may be suspended. Where a module does go ahead with a small number of students (typically one or two students), those students can expect a reduction to the relevant contact hours (normally 6 sessions will be reduced to 4).Ìý

Some, but not all, of the modules advertised may be borrowable by students from other Departments/Faculties, subject to availability, course regulationsÌýand approval from both sides. Numbers may be limited, and students enrolled on the ELAC MPhil take priority. Queries should be directed to the MMLL Postgraduate Office on postgraduatestudies@mmll.cam.ac.uk.

Please note the below modules may be subject to change.

Interdisciplinary

• ID Cultures:ÌýCultures of the Renaissance (Dr Tim Chesters)Ìý
• ÌýApproaches to Gender (Prof Helena Sanson)
• ID Gesture: Gesture, Perception, Event (Prof Catherine Pickstock and Dr Helena Phillips-Robins)
• ID Marginalities:ÌýMarginalitiesÌýin Nineteenth-Century European Culture (Dr Claire White)
• ID Medieval Communities (Prof Miranda Griffin)
• ID City: The Modern City (Prof Andrew Webber)
• ID Post/Decolonial Studies:ÌýCritical Dialogues in Post/Decolonial Studies: Key Concepts and UntranslatablesÌý(Dr Doyle Calhoun and Prof Charles Forsdick)

French

• FR Contemporary:ÌýArticulations of the Real: Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone CultureÌý(ProfÌýMartin Crowley)
• FR Early Modern:ÌýBody and Soul: Sensory Connections in the Early Modern Period (Dr John Leigh)
• FR Medieval:ÌýSenses of the Text in Medieval France (Not offered in Lent 2026)

German

• GE Modern Culture:ÌýPrecarious narratives -ÌýliveableÌýsubjectivitiesÌý(Dr CharlotteÌýWoodford and Dr Sarah Colvin)​
• GE Modern Thought:ÌýEnlightenment and its Critics from Kant to HeideggerÌý(Dr Martin Ruehl)

Greek

• GK Myth:ÌýWomen and the Subversive Power of Myth (Dr LianaÌýGiannakopoulou)Ìý
• GK Syntactic Change:ÌýSyntactic change in Greek through an acquisition perspective (Not available in Lent 2026)

Italian

• IT 20th Century:ÌýNew Commitments: Literature, Cinema and Culture in Italy, 1960 - present (Prof RobertÌýGordon)
• IT Body, Gesture, Emotion: Body, Gesture, Emotion: Art and Literature in Italy, 1250-1700 (Not available in Lent 2026)
• IT Medieval: Literature and Knowledge in Late Medieval Italy: Scholars and Poets (Prof Anna Pegoretti)
• IT Women & Writing:ÌýWomen and Writing in Italy (Prof Helena Sanson)Ìý

Slavonic

• ³§³¢Ìý20³Ù³óÌý°ä±ð²Ô³Ù³Ü°ù²â:ÌýSelf-Creation in Twentieth-Century Russian and Polish CultureÌý(Prof Stanley Bill)
• SL Nationalism:ÌýLiterature and Nationalism in Poland, Russia and UkraineÌý(Not available in Lent 2026)

Spanish & Portuguese

• SP Myth and Invention:ÌýMyth and Invention: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Culture (Prof. RÌýCacho)

Spanish & Portuguese / Latin AmericanÌý

• SP LA Cinema:ÌýThe Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (Prof Maite Conde)
• SP LA Literature:ÌýPresent Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American writing (Dr Rory O'Bryen)
• SP Myth and Invention:ÌýMyth and Invention: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Culture (Prof Louise Haywood)
• SP Race and Ethnicity: Race and Ethnicity in the Iberian World

Codes used above:Ìý

ID = Interdisciplinary; FR = French; GE = German; GK = Greek;ÌýIT = Italian; SL = Slavonic; SP = Spanish & Portuguese; SP LA = Spanish & Portuguese/Latin AmericanÌý