Academic Staff

Academic staff who contribute to the graduate programmes under the aegis of the Centre for Intercultural Studies are drawn from a wide range of UCL departments.

Daniel Abondolo
Senior Lecturer in Hungarian Language and Literature
Hungarian twentieth-century poetry; metrics; folk poetry; general linguistics; Uralic languages

James Agar
Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature
Cultural theory, especially Foucault; French and Hispanic writing; gender studies, especially gay studies and queer theory

Felicity Baker
Reader in French
The Enlightenment, Postmodernism and the ‘uncompleted project’; autobiography and politics; opera; psychoanalysis and poetic form

Tim Beasley-Murray
Lecturer in Slovak Studies
Cultural Theory; Modernism; Slovak postmodernism

Stephanie Bird
Senior Lecturer in German
The modern German novel, especially women’s writing; narrative technique, feminist theory, post-structuralist theories of subjectivity

Kasia Boddy
Lecturer in English
American cinema; boxing in cinema and art

Vanda Broughton
Lecturer in Library and Information Studies
Digital resources in the humanities

Lesley Caldwell
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Italian
Italian cinema and the city

Phil Cavendish
Lecturer in Russian
Russian and Soviet cinema; avant-garde cinema

Paul Davis
Lecturer in English
Seventeenth and eighteenth-century English literature; Augustan translation; Dryden, Pope

Alison Diduck
Senior Lecturer in Laws
Child and family law; legal theory; gender issues and feminist perspectives in law and legal history

Jane Fenoulhet
Senior Lecturer in Dutch
Literary and cultural history; gender studies; women’s writing in Dutch

John Foot
Reader in Modern Italian History
Italian cinema; agit-prop cinema in the 1960s

David Forgacs
Professor of Italian
Italian cinema; digital cinema; film theory; critical theory

Helena Forsås-Scott
Senior Lecturer in Swedish
Modern Scandinavian literature; gender studies; feminist theory; narrative and narratology; ecofeminism

Mary Fulbrook
Professor of German History
Social history of the DDR; historical theory; comparative European history

Jane Gilbert
Lecturer in French
Medieval French literature, especially narrative; constructions of identity; the double; comparative literature; visual art; literary theory, especially gender, anthropology, psychoanalysis

Lee Grieveson
Lecturer in Film Studies
American cinema history; silent cinema; censorship; film genre; history of film studies

Julian Graffy
Professor of Russian
Russian and Soviet cinema

Toni Griffiths
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Literature and Psychoanalysis; George Eliot; 19th century English literature

Stephen Hart
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Modern Spanish and Latin American Literature; Latin American cultural studies

Moira Inghilleri
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Sociology of translation and interpreting; ethnography

Theo Hermans
Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature
Translation theory and history; comparative literature; Renaissance and modern Dutch and Flemish literature

Philip Horne
Professor of English
British and American cinema history

Deborah Kirklin
Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities
Social, legal and ethical implications of the new genetics

Roland-François Lack
Lecturer in French
Nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature; French film; African and Caribbean Francophone literature and film; literary theory; Jean-Luc Godard

Andrew Leak
Senior Lecturer in French
Experimental writing: Queneau, Perec and OuLiPo; Sartre and existentialism; Barthes; modern French fiction and drama; critical theory in relation to psychoanalysis and Continental philosophy

Caren Levy
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of the Built Environment
Planning methodology; gender policy and planning; environmental policy; training and organisational development

Tim Mathews
Professor of French
Representation and identity in modern French literature and art; Surrealism; modern and contemporary French poetry, especially Apollinaire; critical theory; word and image

Jann Matlock
Senior Lecturer in French
Comparative literature; film theory; gender studies; critical theory; French and American media; psychoanalysis

Sharon Morris
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Media
Avant-garde cinema; cinema and semiotics; film theory; words and images

Florian Mussgnug
Lecturer in Italian
Modern Italian literature; comparative literature; literary theory; philosophy of language

Sara Randall
Lecturer in Anthropology
Demography of African nomadic pastoralists; quantitative and qualitative demographic studies; reproduction decision making, especially in West Africa; refugee populations

Tsila Ratner
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew
Modern Hebrew literature; translation; women’s writing

Nanneke Redclift
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Gender, sexuality and the anthropology of the body; history, politics and identity in Central America, particularly Mexico; cultural dimensions of biotechnology

Adrian Stevens
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature
Literature and philosophy; Bakhtin and dialogism; Richard Rorty

Melvyn Stokes
Senior Lecturer in History
American cinema history; cinema audiences; The Birth of a Nation; Francois Truffaut

Claire Thomson
Lecturer in Scandinavian Film
Identity and culture in Europe; literature and visual arts; narrative and nation; multimedia translation

Pamela Thurschwell
Senior Lecturer in English
Modern British and American literature; cultural and critical theory; psycho-analysis; gender and sexuality theory

Ann Varley
Reader in Geography
Gender, the family and the household; urban land and housing; law and urban governance; the meaning of home; illegal settlement and regularisation; older people and housing; vulnerability to disasters

Marie Wells
W P Ker Lecturer in Norwegian
Modern Norwegian literature; Henrik Ibsen

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