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Music and modern language courses will continue to be offered at Cardiff University after it backtracked on plans to close the departments.

In an update to staff, Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner said music would have revised entry targets and content and modern language programmes would have smaller cohorts.

Mr. Conarroe was a central figure in the world of letters for decades, with stints as executive director of the Modern Language Association, the nation’s leading scholarly organization for language and literature, and the president of the P.E.N.

Though she taught in some of the top literature programs in the country and served a term as president of the Modern Language Association, her field’s leading professional group, Professor Perloff was considered something of an outsider in the way she approached poetry and in the writers she chose to champion.

The earliest evidence is in a language called Sumerian, which doesn’t have any modern language relatives.