Humanities - Linguistics & Literature

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The Cluster of Excellence "Cross-Cultural Philology" at LMU Munich, which was launched at the beginning of 2026, takes a global look at 5,000 years of written culture. Among them is Würzburg-based Egyptologist Martin A. Stadler.

On Love your Libraries Day, Student Storyteller Solomiia explores how UCL's libraries and academic support services provide the everyday guidance, spaces and skills that help students thrive.

A new study from the Center for Humanities Computing and the Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text at Aarhus University shows that star ratings of books are not always accurate. Average ratings on Goodreads can hide both literary classics and highly divided reading experiences - and can therefore be a misleading measure of literary value.

On the occasion of its 575^th anniversary, the University of Barcelona is offering a series of guided tours to explore the interesting and prolific connection between its iconic headquarters and literature.

Russian princess turned refugee, Belgian journalist and writer, Zinaïda Chakhovskaïa has lived a thousand lives through revolutions and exiles. In this new episode of the podcast Les Grands Petits Belges, Elizaveta Berquin, a doctoral student in history, brings to life the romantic and little-known destiny of the woman who defined herself as "a French writer of Russian origin and Belgian nationality", a privileged witness to the upheavals of the 20th century.

Around 100 years ago, Ljuba Metzl translated a famous Baroque drama from Latin into German. But her achievement has been suppressed from history.

In June 2025, Hanadi Bekai joined ENS de Lyon thanks to the Palestine Scholarship program to pursue her doctoral research at CIHAM. Her area of scholarship is Arabic Language and Literature; she studies unpublished manuscripts from the 14th to the 18th centuries.

Long absent from Belgian literary accounts, Junia Letty studied at ULB, was published at an early age and moved in European intellectual circles at the end of the 19th century. In this episode of "Les Grands Petits Belges", Martina Mecco, a post-doctoral researcher in history, brings this polyglot writer and cultural bridge-builder back to life.

Teachers could make more use of the possibilities of Young Adult (YA) literature. 'Young Adult literature has a lot to offer and is popular among young people, but deserves more recognition,' says researcher Linda Ackermans. Ackermans will obtain her PhD from Radboud University on 20 January 2026.

Making a big bet on "computational humanities," Carnegie Mellon University will introduce new academic programs and resources for students and researchers to blend traditional humanistic inquiry - literary interpretation, historical research and cultural critique - with computational methods like computer vision, machine learning, network analysis and data visualization.

The fifth issue of the journal 'DIDIT. Didattica dell'italiano. Studi applicati di lingua e letteratura' (Teaching Italian. Applied studies of language and literature) is now online, focusing on linguistic variation and the different varieties of language.