MPhil in Literature, Culture and Thought 2025/26
Lent term 2026 Modules听
Each year, during the summer months before term starts, students are asked to pre-select two modules. The听list of modules offered can change from year to year depending on the availability of academic staff. Students are asked听for back-up choices just in case modules are under or over-subscribed, but the faculty听endeavour 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).听
Some, but not all, of the modules advertised may be borrowable by students from other Departments/Faculties, subject to availability, course regulations听and 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:听Cultures of the Renaissance (Dr Tim Chesters)听
- 听Approaches to Gender (Prof Helena Sanson)
- ID Gesture: Gesture, Perception, Event (Prof Catherine Pickstock and Dr Helena Phillips-Robins)
- ID Marginalities:听Marginalities听in Nineteenth-Century European Culture (Dr Claire White)
- ID Medieval Communities听(Prof Miranda Griffin)
- ID City: The Modern City听(Prof Andrew Webber)
- ID Post/Decolonial Studies:听Critical Dialogues in Post/Decolonial Studies: Key Concepts and Untranslatables((Dr Doyle Calhoun and Prof Charles Forsdick)
French
- FR Contemporary:听Articulations of the Real: Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone Culture听(Prof听Martin Crowley)
- FR Early Modern:听Body and Soul: Sensory Connections in the Early Modern Period (Dr John Leigh)
- FR Medieval:听Senses of the Text in Medieval France (Not offered in Lent 2026)
German
- GE Modern Culture:听Precarious narratives -听liveable听subjectivities听(Dr Charlotte听Woodford and Dr Sarah Colvin)鈥�
- GE Modern Thought:听Enlightenment and its Critics from Kant to Heidegger听(Dr Martin Ruehl)
Greek
- GK Myth:听Women and the Subversive Power of Myth (Dr Liana听Giannakopoulou)听
- GK Syntactic Change:听Syntactic change in Greek through an acquisition perspective (Not available in Lent 2026)
Italian
- IT 20th Century:听New Commitments: Literature, Cinema and Culture in Italy, 1960 - present (Prof Robert听Gordon)
- IT Body, Gesture, Emotion: Body, Gesture, Emotion: Art and Literature in Italy, 1250-1700 (Not available in Lent 2026)
- IT Medieval:听Scholars and Poets: Literature and Knowledge in Late Medieval Italy听(Prof Anna Pegoretti)
- IT Women & Writing:听Women and Writing in Italy (Prof Helena Sanson)听
Slavonic
- 厂尝听20迟丑听颁别苍迟耻谤测:听Self-Creation in Twentieth-Century Russian and Polish Culture听(Prof Stanley Bill)
- SL Nationalism:听Literature and Nationalism in Poland, Russia and Ukraine听(Not available in Lent 2026)
Spanish & Portuguese
- SP Myth and Invention:听Myth and Invention: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Culture (Prof. R听Cacho)
Spanish & Portuguese / Latin American听
- SP LA Cinema:听The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (Prof Maite Conde)
- SP LA Literature:听Present Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American writing (Dr Rory O'Bryen)
- SP Myth and Invention:听Myth and Invention: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Culture (Prof Louise Haywood)
- SP Race and Ethnicity:听Race and Ethnicity in the Iberian World听(Dr Isaias Fanlo)
Codes used above:听
ID = Interdisciplinary; FR = French; GE = German; GK = Greek;听IT = Italian; SL = Slavonic; SP = Spanish & Portuguese; SP LA = Spanish & Portuguese/Latin American听
