The School of Modern Languages has broad expertise in literary translation and translation history, including the middle ages, the early modern period, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular research strengths in translation studies include audiovisual translation, especially subtitling; translation history; literary translation, including poetry, drama, fiction, practice-oriented research; censorship in translation; interpreting; pragmatics. Languages include Catalan, Chinese, Czech, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Research facilities foster interdisciplinary collaboration between all departments through research seminars and other events, and include the Multimedia Centre: a specialist language centre comprising a language laboratory, media suite, a library of foreign films, newspapers and magazines, and an 18-seat screening room. Graduates from this programme progress to careers in higher education or work on high-level research projects in the field of translation; some graduates may take up careers in freelance translating and interpreting.