In April 2013 the LANGSNAP research team organised a successful international conference in Southampton on study/ residence abroad. A selection of papers from the conference has now been published as: Mitchell, R., Tracy-Ventura, N, & McManus, K (eds) 2015 Social interaction, identity and language learning during residence abroad. EUROSLA Monographs 4, 310 pp. This is […]

Henry Ettinghausen, who joined the Department of Spanish in 1965 and was Professor of Spanish at Southampton from 1983 until he retired in 2001, has just published online How the Press Began. The Pre-Periodical Printed News in Early Modern Europe (304 pages, incl. 90 illustrations, SIELAE, 2015. JANUS DIGITAL, ANEXO 3). It can be downloaded […]

Significant political events in Austria in the 1980s and 90s not only triggered the first public debate about Austria’s Nazi past but also gave rise to a young vocal generation of Jewish intellectuals, many of whom spearheaded protests against the right-wing populist political forces. More specifically, these developments were triggered by the younger Jews’ dissatisfaction […]

Dr Jane Lavery’s book The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires (Oxford: Legenda) has received further media coverage in Mexico’s leading El Universal. See below for links to the article and an interview with Dr Lavery on El Universal’s TV channel. Estudian la obra multimedia de Ana Clavel La obra […]

In March 2015 my monograph on the contemporary Mexican multimedia writer Ana Clavel was published. Writing The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires (Oxford, GB, Legenda (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 6) has been a particularly pleasurable experience given that I have had the privilege of having a very […]

Professor Roumyana Slabakova, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR), has recently published an article about her research on The Conversation. Read more here: Me, myself or I? Why it’s hard to use pronouns in the right way

The Institute for Language and Culture held its annual celebration of research on 7 January 2015. Here is a snapshot of our most recently published work — 2 posters – from Oct. 2013-Dec. 2014.   We also feted Southampton’s excellent results in Modern Languages in REF2014 (UoA28). More news to follow.  

Director of the Centre for Global Englishes  Professor Jennifer Jenkins is featured as Routledge’s English language and applied linguistics author of the month. As part of the feature Professor Jenkins discusses her recently republished book Global Englishes, and gives her perspective on the field of English as a Lingua Franca. Read more here.

Some more recent publications from ILC researchers in the Department of Modern Languages: Marion Demossier Demossier , Marion (2014) Sarkozy and Roma: performing securitization. In, Maguire, M., Frois, C. and Zurawski, N. (eds.) The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control. London, GB, Pluto Press, 24-44. Jaine Beswick Beswick, […]

Professor Michael Kelly, Head of Department of Modern Languages, has recently published the following articles: Kelly, Michael, Que peut l’Europe? Comment les décideurs peuvent mieux soutenir l’enseignement des langues, in Formation et professionnalisation enseignante en contexts pluriels,edited by Mariella Causa, Stéphanie Galligani and Monica Vlad, Riveneuve, 2014, 399-413. Kelly, Michael, ‘Recent developments in EU language […]