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Deborah Martin's video essay compares sequences from two films, The Innocents (Clayton, 1951) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, 2019).

The prestigious award has been conferred to Dr Nabugodi for her work on Romanticism, the Black Atlantic, cultural impacts, and legacies of the transatlantic slave economy.

Professor Florian Mussgnug reflects on his extensive research journey so far, as he prepares for his Inaugural Lecture 'Loving Apocalypse Too Much'. Taking place on 28th October 2025...

SELCS students visited the Barbican to see a play in French, and took part in an acting workshop in French with one of the performers.

Dr Emily Baker analyses the romance between Anthony Bridgerton (portrayed by Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) in season two of the Shondaland production of Bridgerton.

Last week, we were delighted to welcome new students to UCL Arts & Humanities with a series of events organised by our Faculty Education and Student Experience team.

As we approach the start of a new academic year, 2024/25 saw a plethora of achievements and accolades from our departments.

This year, SELCS offered a Turing Summer Schools in Paris hosted by the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique. Students attended a range of activities from talks with playwrights to plays.

Find out how to apply for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship or Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at SELCS-CMII.

Congratulations to Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at SELCS-CMII, on the publication of her new book.

Congratulations to Dr Selena Daly who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for 12 months.

By taking an innovative approach to language learning using artworks and objects from UCL’s collections as starting points, the Power of Language case reveals some surprising insights into how language and culture are linked.

Discover our new faculty video showcasing who we are, what we do, what we want to achieve as a faculty.

Professor Mart Kuldkepp explores the margins of political history: the ideas that failed, the plans left unfulfilled, and the individuals and organisations whose aims and activities were out of step with their times.

Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshadowed and heralded our ‘modernity’. But how are our times different from what came before?