School of European Languages, Culture and Society – Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (SELCS-CMII)
Based in London’s literary quarter in Bloomsbury and surrounded by the greatest concentration of libraries, museums, archives and professional bodies in Europe, the School is a world-leading centre for teaching, research and public engagement at one of the world's top universities.

Dutch Writer in Residence 2023: Simone Atangana Bekono
Netherlands’ most exciting new literary talent, poet and novelist.

Alia Trabucco Zerán wins British Academy book prize
SELCS PhD graduate wins Global Cultural Understanding 2022 prize for book When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold.

Book release Back to the Shops by Rachel Bowlby
The Highstreet in History and the Future by Rachel Bowlby, professor of Comparative Literature

The Craft: How the Freemasons made the modern world
John Dickie’s (Italian Studies) new book is finally out and it's being published in seven languages.

Dr Erin Goeres awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2021-22
Dr Goeres’ project will examine the cultural repercussions of the Norman Conquest in the medieval literature of northern Europe.

Translation as Microhistory
How Kathryn Batchelor’s inaugural lecture drew our attention to the historical and political significance of literary translation.

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