Research in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies focuses on the study of the major world languages of French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean, and on the cultures in which they are spoken.
The School has three broad areas of
research strength, each of which draws together researchers from a cross-section of language groups and disciplinary interests.
Literary Studies
Applied Linguistics and Language Studies
Cultural Studies
School staff have expertise in a broad range of
disciplines including:
Asian Cultural Studies
Cultural Theory
Culture Gender and Cross-cultural Studies
Screen and Media Culture
Translation and Interpreting Studies
Language in Culture and Society
Researchers in the School also have
links with the following Faculty Centres:
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
Centre for the History of European Discourses