Blogs

Views and commentary from our researchers in Languages and Cultures

Telling the Stories of the Future: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Nobel Prize for Literature 2017

Emily Spiers is a Lecturer in Creative Futures in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University.
The trade in body parts of people with albinism is driven by myth and international inaction

Dr Charlotte Baker is a Lecturer in French in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. Her research interests include representations of albinism in sub-Saharan Africa, and questions of marginality and power in French and Francophone literature.
Comics and/in/for/as Comics Scholarship

Erika Fülöp is a lecturer in French Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University
Art, Literature and the Multilingual Spaces of post-Brexit Democracy

Delphine Grass is a lecturer in French Studies at Lancaster University.
Translating Practices: Languages and Translation in Higher Education from a Cross-cultural Perspective

Erika Fülöp is a lecturer in French Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures. The blog below is her report on the Conference held at Lancaster University on 12-13 July 2017.
As Man Booker winner Paul Beatty is about to find out, literary celebrity changes everything

Rebecca Braun is Professor of Modern Languages and Creative Futures and Director of the interdisciplinary research hub: Authors and the World.
Do novels need authors?

Rebecca Braun is Professor of Modern Languages and Creative Futures and Director of the interdisciplinary research hub: Authors and the World.
Austria prepares for a lurch to the right as moderate chancellor resigns

Allyson Fiddler is a Professor of German in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University.
Writing, Life, and Death (Goodbye to Imre Kertész)

Dr Erika Fülöp is a Lecturer in French Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University.
Ecos from the Past: Homage to an Author

Dr Erika Fülöp is a Lecturer in French Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University.