Senior Leadership Team
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| School Director (Head of Department) & Chair of CMII | Professor Claire Thomson |
| Deputy Head of Department | Professor Seb Coxon |
| Director of Research and REF Lead | Professor Jennifer Rushworth |
| Co-Directors of Teaching | |
| Departmental Tutor (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught) | Dr Marjorie Huet |
| Postgraduate Research Programmes Tutor | Professor Sonu Shamdasani |
| Co-Directors of Admissions and Recruitment | Dr Xiaochun Zhang (Postgraduate Taught) Dr Joana Jacob Ramalho (Undergraduate) |
| Departmental Manager | Sara Witchell |
| Teaching and Learning Manager | Robert Bodden |
| Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) / Athena Swan / Disability Lead | Dr Alejandro Bolanos-Garcia-Escribano Mr Haydn Kirnon Dr Marga Navarrete Dr Mazal Oaknín Dr Leah Sidi |
School Tutors
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate Dissertation Tutor | Professor Jennifer Rushworth |
| Departmental Tutor (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught) | Dr Marjorie Huet |
| Deputy Departmental Tutor | Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir |
| Deputy Departmental Tutor | Dr Tom Morcom |
| Postgraduate Research Programmes Tutor | Professor Sonu Shamdasani |
| PGTA Tutor | Professor Judith Beniston |
| Year Abroad Tutor | Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva |
| Affiliate Tutor | Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri |
| Widening Participation and Outreach Tutor | Christine Sas |
| SELCS Language Tutor | Dr Anne Grydehøj |
| SELCS Language Tutor | Marie Fournier |
| Student Advisor | Nosheen Aslam |
School Programme Directors
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director of Comparative Literature (BA) | Professor Patrick Bray |
| Director of Comparative Literature (MA/PhD) | Professor Judith Beniston |
| Director of Creative Critical Writing and Creative Critical Inquiry (Practice-Related) (PhD) | Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi |
| Director of Documentary-track (PhD) | Professor Stephen Hart |
| Director of Dutch Studies | Dr Hans Demeyer |
| Director of Early Modern Studies (MA) | Dr Matthew Symonds |
| Director of Early Modern Studies (PhD) | Professor Alexander Samson |
| Director of European Studies (MA/PhD) | Dr Tessa Hauswedell |
| Director of ELCS modules | Dr Annika Lindskog |
| Director of Film Studies (MA/PhD) | Dr Lucia Rinaldi |
| Director of French and Francophone Studies | James Agar |
| Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies (MA/PhD) | Dr Alex Hyde |
| Director of German Studies | Dr Reinier van Straten |
| Director of Health Humanities (MA/PhD) | Professor Sonu Shamdasani |
| Director of Italian Studies | Dr Cristina Massaccesi |
| Director of joint degree with Venice Ca’ Foscari | Professor Catherine Keen |
| Director of Language & Culture (BA) | Dr Eleanor Chiari |
| Director of Language, Culture & History (MA) | Dr Thibaut Raboin |
| Director of Language Pathways (PhD) | Professor Sonu Shamdasani |
| Director of Modern Languages with Film Studies (BA) | Dr Lucy Bollington |
| Director of Modern Languages and/with Management Studies (BA) | Dr Annika Lindskog |
| Director of Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health (MA) | Dr Rodney Reynolds (Until March 2027) |
| Director of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (PhD) | |
| Director of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (MA) | Dr Luke de Noronha |
| Director of Scandinavian Studies | Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen |
| Director of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies | Dr Niall Geraghty |
| Director of Translation Studies (PhD) and CenTras | Professor Federico Federici |
| Director of Translation Studies (MA) | Dr Tzu-yu Lin |
| Director of Translation & Technology (MSc) | Dr Caiwen Wang |
Professional Services Staff
Who to Contact
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|---|---|
| askUCL |
| selcs.studyabroad@ucl.ac.uk |
| selcs.examinations@ucl.ac.uk |
| selcs.ec@ucl.ac.uk |
| selcs-cmii.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk (for prospective students) |
| selcs.operations@ucl.ac.uk (for staff) |
| IT / AV software and hardware issues (printers / photocopiers, equipment in teaching rooms, logging in, etc.) | MyServices or 020 7679 5000 (internal 25000) |
| IT / AV purchasing and renting | MyServices |
Professional Services Team
| Role | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Departmental Manager | Sara Witchell | s.witchell@ucl.ac.uk |
| Teaching & Student Support : | ||
| Teaching and Learning Manager | Robert Bodden | r.bodden@ucl.ac.uk |
| Teaching & Student Support Officer | Ruth Austin | ruth.austin@ucl.ac.uk |
| Teaching & Student Support Officer | Ophelia Lopez Bonelli | o.bonelli@ucl.ac.uk |
| Teaching & Student Support Officer | Duncan Frost | duncan.frost@ucl.ac.uk |
| Teaching & Student Support Officer | Derek Kempen | d.kempen@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Leanne Austin | leanne.austin@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Vanessa Alleyne | v.alleyne@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Hafsah Begum | hafsah.begum@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Floriana Caruso | floriana.caruso@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Operations : | ||
| Operations Officer | Alex Lopez Alvarez | a.lopez.alvarez@ucl.ac.uk |
| Operations Officer | Audrey Gbato | a.gbato@ucl.ac.uk |
| Operations Officer | Susie Ivins | susie.ivins@ucl.ac.uk |
| Operations Officer | Laura Mason | laura.mason@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Shabina Ahad | shabina.ahad@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Abbie Bambridge | a.bambridge@ucl.ac.uk |
| Administrative Officer | Katia Lancellotti | c.lancellotti@ucl.ac.uk |
Academic & Teaching Staff by course
If you wish to search Academic & Teaching Staff alphabetically, please go to UCL profiles
Comparative Literature
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director (BA) | ||
| Professor Patrick Bray | yes | |
| Programme Director (MA / PhD) | ||
| Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Emily Baker | Comparative Literature; World Literature; Latin American Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Queer Theory; Historical Fiction; Life Writing; Continental Philosophy; Philosophy of Community; Post-Nationalism; Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism | yes |
| Professor Kathryn Batchelor | Translation Theory; Translation History; Comparative Literature (in German, French and English); French Thought (Derrida, Fanon); Francophone Literature; Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory; China-Africa Relations. | yes |
| Professor Judith Beniston | Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History. | yes |
| Professor Stephanie Bird | Modern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work. | yes |
| Dr Lucy Bollington | yes | |
| Professor Patrick Bray | yes | |
| Dr Maria Chiara D’Argenio | Visual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin America | yes |
| Dr Hans Demeyer | Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction | yes |
| Dr Niall Geraghty | Latin America; cultural studies; literature; film; religion; urban studies | yes |
| Professor Jane Gilbert | Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context | yes |
| Professor Azzedine Haddour | yes | |
| Professor Stephen M. Hart | 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. | yes |
| Professor Catherine Keen | Medieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy. | yes |
| Dr Tzu-yu Lin | English>Chinese Translation; Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies; Postcolonial Translation; Multilingualism and Translation; Theatre Translation | yes |
| Dr Jann Matlock | yes | |
| Professor Thibaut Maus De Rolley | Early modern French literary, cultural, and historical topics; Comparative Literature (French, English, Spanish, Italian); Travel Writing; Magic, Demonology, and Witchcraft; History of Science; Performance Studies; Comics, graphic novels, and bande dessinée. | yes |
| Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri | English and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fiction | yes |
| Professor Florian Mussgnug | Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature | yes |
| Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi | Comparative and transnational literature | yes |
| Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach | Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families | yes |
| Dr Anna Ponomareva | English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation; History of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian Formalism | yes |
| Dr Joana Jacob Ramalho | Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness | yes |
| Dr Rachel Rankin | Scandinavian literature; poetry; translation; Norwegian language | |
| Dr Stefano Rossoni | yes | |
| Professor Jennifer Rushworth | Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory | yes |
| Professor Alexander Samson | Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction | yes |
| Dr Beatrice Sica | Comparative Literature, Italian-French; Italian Cultural History and Visual Studies; Italian Fascism; Italian Futurism, French Surrealism and European Avant-Gardes; Italian Literature and Cultural Studies; Magical Realism and Fantastic Literature | yes |
| Dr Leah Sidi | yes | |
| Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen | Comparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studies | yes |
| Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva | Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies; 19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion history | yes |
| Dr Gareth Wood | 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation. | yes |
| Dr Xiaofan Amy Li | yes |
Creative Critical Writing / Creative Critical Inquiry (Practice-Related) PhD
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi | Comparative and transnational literature | yes |
Documentary Track PhD
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Professor Stephen Hart | 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. | yes |
Dutch Studies / Low Countries Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Director of Dutch Studies | ||
| Dr Hans Demeyer | Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Tessa Hauswedell | Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity | yes |
| Professor Ulrich Tiedau | European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities | yes |
| Dr Christina Anderson | Daphne Jackson Senior Research Fellow | |
| Language Coordinator | ||
| Christine Sas | Applied linguistics and educational linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation and interpretation studies, Language, communication and culture, Language studies |
Early Modern Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director (MA) | ||
| Dr Matthew Symonds | yes | |
| Programme Director (PhD) | ||
| Professor Alexander Samson | Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Robyn Adams | ||
| Professor Haki Antonsson | Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society | yes |
| Professor Zoltan Biedermann | Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature | yes |
| Professor Seb Coxon | Gender and masculinities; beards, hair and baldness as literary and iconographic motifs; comedy and cultures of laughter; early modern jokes and joke-books; fools and folly | yes |
| Professor Jane Gilbert | Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context | yes |
| Professor Catherine Keen | Medieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy. | yes |
| Professor Thibaut Maus de Rolley | Early modern French literary, cultural, and historical topics; Comparative Literature (French, English, Spanish, Italian); Travel Writing; Magic, Demonology, and Witchcraft; History of Science; Performance Studies; Comics, graphic novels, and bande dessinée. | yes |
| Professor Lisa Sampson | Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women’s Writing | yes |
| Professor Ulrich Tiedau | European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities | yes |
European Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Tessa Hauswedell | Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Professor Haki Antonsson | Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society | yes |
| Dr James Connolly | World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II | yes |
| Professor Mark Hewitson | European Integration; Globalisation; Historical Theory; 19th and 20th century German history; nationalism in Europe from the 18th century to the present; the First World War; war and society in Germany since the Napoleonic wars; German social and political thought; the history of European integration; visual history, intellectual and comparative history | yes |
| Dr Kevin Inston | Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Rousseau, 20th Century Political thought and Philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Lefort et al) with a particular emphasis on democracy, community and equality | yes |
| Professor Brian Klaas | Democracy; African Politics; American Politics; Authoritarian Populism; Authoritarianism; Civil Wars; Côte d’Ivoire; Coups d’Etat; Democracy Promotion; Democratisation; Dictatorship; Disinformation; Donald Trump; Election Rigging; Elections; International Diplomacy; Madagascar; US Foreign Policy; Political Violence; Political Campaigns; Thailand; Tunisia | yes |
| Professor Mart Kuldkepp | Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I | yes |
| Dr Reinier van Straten | ||
| Professor Ulrich Tiedau | European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities | yes |
Film Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Lucia Rinaldi | yes | |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Emily Baker | Comparative Literature; World Literature; Latin American Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Queer Theory; Historical Fiction; Life Writing; Continental Philosophy; Philosophy of Community; Post-Nationalism; Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism | yes |
| Professor Stephanie Bird | Modern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work. | yes |
| Dr Lucy Bollington | Moving image art; experimental film and video; independent and arthouse cinema; film-philosophy; cinema and the body; the relationships between aesthetics, politics and technology; the posthuman, nonhuman and more-than-human | yes |
| Dr Tom Cunliffe | Chinese-language cinemas (especially on Hong Kong film history, Taiwan cinema, contemporary Hong Kong-Mainland co-productions, independent Chinese cinema) Hong Kong Studies; Political Cinema; Classical Hollywood; Film History; The Cold War; Film Censorship; Asian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Transnational Studies; Melodrama Film; Festival Studies. | yes |
| Dr Maria Chiara D’Argenio | Visual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin America | yes |
| Dr Richard Farmer | Film history; media history; British popular culture; cinemagoing; intermedia cultural products | |
| Professor Lee Grieveson | Censorship; Culture (Liberal and Neo-Liberal Cultures); Data-Mining; Documentary; Imperialism; Media and Political Economy; Media History; Media Industries; Militant/Radical Media; Surveillance Capitalism; Early Cinema; Media and Imperialism; US Cinema/Media History; Political Media | yes |
| Professor Stephen Hart | 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. | yes |
| Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach | Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families | yes |
| Professor Claire Lindsay | 19th and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America, 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film, Latino Studies, migration, mobility and space. | yes |
| Dr Cristina Massaccesi | Animation Cinema; Japanese Anime and Manga; Horror Cinema; Sequential Art and Graphic Novels; Fandom Studies and Slash Fiction; Visual Arts; Italian Cinema; 20th Century Italian Literature | yes |
| Professor Deborah Martin | Latin American cinema, women’s filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities. | yes |
| Dr Jann Matlock | yes | |
| Dr Lucia Rinaldi | Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema | yes |
| Dr Annie Ring | Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies | yes |
| Professor Claire Thomson | Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema | yes |
| Professor Stella Bruzzi | Professor of Film Studies | |
| Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson | Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain, History of Art department |
French and Francophone Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Director of French Studies | ||
| James Agar | Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema | |
| Language Coordinator | ||
| Marie Fournier | ||
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Ruth Austin | Cocteau; Dystopias/Utopias; Vichy France; World War I; World War II Occupation France | |
| Dr Benjamin Bâcle | British and French Romanticism; French Eclecticism; French Personalism; French Revolution; French Political Thought Since 1789; Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism/Anti-Utilitarianism | |
| Professor Kathryn Batchelor | Translation Theory; Translation History; Comparative Literature (in German, French and English); French Thought (Derrida, Fanon); Francophone Literature; Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory; China-Africa Relations. | yes |
| Professor Patrick Bray | yes | |
| Dr James Connolly | World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II | yes |
| Professor Thibaut Maus De Rolley | Early modern French literary, cultural, and historical topics; Comparative Literature (French, English, Spanish, Italian); Travel Writing; Magic, Demonology, and Witchcraft; History of Science; Performance Studies; Comics, graphic novels, and bande dessinée. | yes |
| Professor Jane Gilbert | Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context | yes |
| Ms Anais Griffiths | ||
| Professor Azzedine Haddour | yes | |
| Professor Mairéad Hanrahan | Contemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction. | yes |
| Dr Kevin Inston | Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Rousseau, 20th Century Political thought and Philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Lefort et al) with a particular emphasis on democracy, community and equality. | yes |
| Dr Xiaofan Amy Li | yes | |
| Professor Philippe Marlière | Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamophobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism; French sociology (Pierre Bourdieu); France and the European Union. | yes |
| Dr Jann Matlock | yes | |
| Dr Thibaut Raboin | Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer | yes |
| Dr Cécile Renaud | ||
| Ms Karine Roumetz | ||
| Professor Jennifer Rushworth | Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory | yes |
| Dr Macs Smith | Contemporary French Theatre; Urban Literature and Art; Paris; French Film; Theory, with particular interests in Media Theory, Hospitality, Ecology, Biopolitics | yes |
| French Lecteurs/Lectrices | ||
| Maia Carpier | ||
| Alice Gascon | ||
| In Memoriam | ||
| Dr Roland-François Lack: an obituary for a much missed colleague |
Gender and Sexuality Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Alex Hyde | Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| James Agar | Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema | |
| Professor Judith Beniston | Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History | yes |
| Dr Juliana Demartini Brito | ||
| Dr Hans Demeyer | Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction | yes |
| Professor Jane Gilbert | Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context | yes |
| Professor Mairéad Hanrahan | Contemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction. | yes |
| Professor Deborah Martin | Latin American cinema, women’s filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities. | yes |
| Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach | Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families | yes |
| Dr Thibaut Raboin | Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer | yes |
| Dr Annie Ring | Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies | yes |
| Dr Joana Jacob Ramalho | Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness | yes |
| Dr Leah Sidi | yes | |
| Dr Xine Yao | ||
| In Memoriam | ||
| Dr Philippa Hetherington | Tribute to Dr Philippa Hetherington (SSEES) |
German Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Director of German Studies | ||
| Dr Reinier van Straten | ||
| Language Coordinator | ||
| Dr Dagmar Paulus | German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Professor Judith Beniston | Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History | yes |
| Professor Stephanie Bird | Modern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work. | yes |
| Dr Jeff Bowersox | Colonialism; Migration; Modern German history, German colonial culture and practice; the history of nationalism; the history of youth; the black diaspora in the German-speaking lands; American-German entanglements; race and popular culture; and cultural approaches to the history of the Kaiserreich | yes |
| Hannes Brünner | ||
| Professor Seb Coxon | Gender and masculinities; beards, hair and baldness as literary and iconographic motifs; comedy and cultures of laughter; early modern jokes and joke-books; fools and folly | yes |
| Professor Mererid Puw Davies | Fairy tales (Märchen) and fantastic literature and film; 20th and 21st century German literature, culture and film, cultural history, literature and film of the Federal Republic of Germany and the culture of the West German protest movements of the 1960s; comparative approaches, and poetry. | yes |
| Professor Mary Fulbrook | 20th century German social and political history, the Third Reich and GDR, inter-disciplinary, transnational and comparative approaches. | yes |
| Professor Mark Hewitson | European Integration; Globalisation; Historical Theory; 19th and 20th century German history; nationalism in Europe from the 18th century to the present; the First World War; war and society in Germany since the Napoleonic wars; German social and political thought; the history of European integration; visual history, intellectual and comparative history. | yes |
| Dr Geraldine Horan | Sociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics; Discourse analysis, political discourse, gender and language, language and National Socialism, nationalist discourse, far-right discourse, and taboo language (e.g. cursing and swearing). | yes |
| Dr Martin Liebscher | 19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature. | |
| Dr Christina Parte | ||
| Dr Joanna Raisbeck | ||
| Dr Annie Ring | Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies | yes |
| Professor Sonu Shamdasani | Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry | yes |
| Dr Sigrid Thomsen | Caribbean (Diaspora) Literature; Comics; Jewish Studies; Archipelagic Studies; Mobility Studies; American Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Popular Culture; Poetry; debates around World Literature; Film |
Health Humanities / Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director (Health Humanities) | ||
| Professor Sonu Shamdasani | Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry | yes |
| Programme Director (Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health) | ||
| Dr Leah Sidi | yes | |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Martin Liebscher | 19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature. |
Italian Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Director of Italian Studies | ||
| Dr Cristina Massaccesi | Animation Cinema; Japanese Anime and Manga; Horror Cinema; Sequential Art and Graphic Novels; Fandom Studies and Slash Fiction; Visual Arts; Italian Cinema; 20th Century Italian Literature | yes |
| Language Coordinator | ||
| Dr Marina Alessandro | Italian Language, Translation Studies, Language Teaching and Acquisition, Sociolinguistics | |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Daniela Cerimonia | Anglo-Italian Relations; Canon; Identity; Migration Literature; Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Italian Literature; Reception and Translation Studies; Romanticism | |
| Dr Eleanor Chiari | Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture | |
| Dr Selena Daly | History of Italian emigration; migration history; history of Italian migration to the UK; Italy in the First World War; the difficult heritage of the art and architecture of Fascist Italy; memories of Fascism; Futurism and the European avant-gardes On Leverhulme Research fellowship 2025-26 | yes |
| Professor John Dickie | Banditry and Brigandage; Freemasonry and Fraternalism; Italian Food; Italian History Since Unification; Italian Literature 1860-1925; Italian Opera in the 19th Century; Mafia; Nationalism and National Identity in Italy; Natural Disasters; Organised Crime; Southern Italy | yes |
| Dr Lucia Dino Guida | Song Translation, Film dubbing, Audio-visual Translation, Adaptation Studies, Voice and Performance Theory | |
| Professor Catherine Keen | Mdieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy | yes |
| Irene Mazza | Language Teaching, Glottodidactics, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Translation, Language & Communication | |
| Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri | English and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fiction | yes |
| Professor Florian Mussgnug | Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature | yes |
| Dr Lucia Rinaldi | Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema | yes |
| Dr Stefano Rossoni | yes | |
| Professor Vieri Samek-Lodovici | Dialect (Grammar, History, etc); Grammar (of a Language or Theory of grammar); Information Structure (Focus, Topichood, Givenness); Phonology (of a Language or Interesting Phonological Phenomenon); Syntax (of a Language or Interesting Syntactic Phenomenon); Language Acquisition (Study of How Language is Acquired by Children); Language Grammar (Syntax and/or Prosody of a Language or Dialect); Linguistics (Study of a Specific Theory in Linguistics or Grammatical Aspect of a Language; Prosody/Intonation (of a Language or Interesting Prosodic Phenomenon) | yes |
| Professor Lisa Sampson | Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women’s Writing | yes |
| Dr Beatrice Sica | Avant-gardes (Futurism Dada, Surrealism); Italian literature and art during Fascism; magical realism and fantastic literature; poetry; cultural exchanges between Italy and other countries, particularly France and the United States of America | yes |
Language & Culture BA
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Eleanor Chiari | Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture |
Language, Culture & History MA
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Thibaut Raboin | Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr James Connolly | World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II |
Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
| Programme Director | ||
| Dr Luke de Noronha | ||
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya | ||
| Dr Jeff Bowersox | Colonialism; Migration; Modern German history, German colonial culture and practice; the history of nationalism; the history of youth; the black diaspora in the German-speaking lands; American-German entanglements; race and popular culture; and cultural approaches to the history of the Kaiserreich | |
| Dr Paige Patchin |
Scandinavian Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
| Director of Scandinavian Studies | ||
| Dr Elettra Carbone | Nordic Literature; Travel Literature; Mobility Studies; Museum Studies; North/South of Europe; Representations of National Identities in Literature (Imagology); Remediation of Visual Arts in Literature; Translation (Between Scandinavian Languages and Italian or English) | yes |
| Language Coordinator (Danish / Norwegian / Swedish) | ||
| Dr Anne Grydehøj | Comparative Literature; Crime Fiction; Culture (Scandinavian Language and Culture); Identity and Intersectionality; Mediatisation; Minority Languages and Literatures | |
| Language Coordinator (Icelandic / Old Norse) | ||
| Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir | Cinematic Representations of Race/Class/Gender/Sexual Orientations; Culture (Nordic Culture); Culture (Popular Culture); Film (Hollywood Cinema); Film (Nordic Film); Folk Narratives and Fairy Tales; Nordic Literature; Post-Colonialism; Superheroes | yes |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Professor Haki Antonsson | Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society | yes |
| Dr Jelena Calic | Critical language pedagogy; language contact and variation; multilingualism and standard language ideologies in Easter Europe and in the Nordic region; migration and discourses of integration in the Nordic region | |
| Dr Erin Goeres | ||
| Professor Mart Kuldkepp | Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I | yes |
| Dr Annika Lindskog | Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation | |
| Dr Rachel Rankin | ||
| Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen | Comparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studies | yes |
| Professor Claire Thomson | Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema |
Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Director of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies | ||
| Dr Niall Geraghty | Latin America; cultural studies; literature; film; religion; urban studies | yes |
| Language Coordinators (Spanish) | ||
| Dr Marga Navarrete | Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation | |
| Dr Mazal Oaknin | ||
| Language Coordinator (Portuguese) | ||
| Dr Joana Jacob Ramalho | Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness | |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Dr Emily Baker | Comparative Literature; World Literature; Latin American Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Queer Theory; Historical Fiction; Life Writing; Continental Philosophy; Philosophy of Community; Post-Nationalism; Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism | yes |
| Professor Zoltán Biedermann | Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature | yes |
| Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano | Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics | yes |
| Dr Camilo Chiappe Bejar | ||
| Dr Maria Chiara D’Argenio | Visual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin America | yes |
| Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime | ||
| Dr Niall Geraghty | Latin America; cultural studies; literature; film; religion; urban studies | yes |
| Dr Blanca Gomez Garcia | ||
| Professor Stephen Hart | 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. | yes |
| Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo | Biographical Studies; Comparative Literature; European Modernism; Linguistics in Foreign Languages Teaching; Literature of Exile and Counter-Exile; Teaching Foreign Languages; Twentieth-Century Spanish/Spanish American Literature and Culture
| |
| Mr Haydn Kirnon | ||
| Professor Claire Lindsay | 19th and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America, 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film, Latino Studies, migration, mobility and space. | yes |
| Professor Deborah Martin | Latin American cinema, women’s filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities. | yes |
| Dr Angela Mira Conejero | ||
| Ms Daniela Mittelstadt | ||
| Dr Adrian Pearce | Spanish colonial policy in the Americas and its outcomes in the long 18th century; British relations with Latin America, also primarily in the 18th century, and with a particular focus on trade; and the native peoples of the Andes in the 19th and 20th centuries. | yes |
| Professor Alexander Samson | Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction | yes |
| Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva | Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies; 19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion history | yes |
| Dr Gareth Wood | 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation. | yes |
Translation Studies (CenTraS)
| Name | Research interests | PhD supervisor? |
|---|---|---|
| Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) & Programme Director (PhD) | Coming soon… | |
| Professor Federico M. Federici | Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises | yes |
| Programme Director (MA) | ||
| Dr Tzu-yu Lin | English>Chinese Translation; Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies; Postcolonial Translation; Multilingualism and Translation; Theatre Translation | yes |
| Programme Director (MSc) | ||
| Dr Caiwen Wang | English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics | |
| Academic and Teaching Staff | ||
| Maria José Anjos | English > Portuguese Subtitling | |
| Jacqueline Ball | German > English | |
| Dr Bettina Bajaj | Language and Automation | |
| Dr Rocío Baños Piñero | Audiovisual translation; AVT; dubbing; fandubbing; prefabricated orality; translation technology; Spanish translation | yes |
| Professor Kathryn Batchelor | Translation Theory; Translation History; Comparative Literature (in German, French and English); French Thought (Derrida, Fanon); Francophone Literature; Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory; China-Africa Relations. | yes |
| Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano | English > Spanish Subtitling; Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics | yes |
| Fiona Brewer | French > English | |
| Deborah Chan | English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing | |
| Dr Olivia Cockburn | Spanish > English | |
| Angela Dickson | French > English | |
| Valentina Faelli | English > Italian | |
| Daniela Ford | Translation Technology; Machine Translation; English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation | |
| Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas | Audio Description; Dubbing; Subtitling; Translation Technology; Translation Theory; Voiceover; Access to the Media; Fan Dubbing; Fan Subbing; Practical Translation English Into Spanish | yes |
| Professor Federico M. Federici | Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises | yes |
| Kristin Gerdes | English > German Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing | |
| Ramona Gonczol | English > Romanian | |
| Helle Gulowsen | English > Norwegian Scientific & Technical Translation | |
| Dr Mihye Harker | English > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation | |
| Jessica Hinds-Mingo | Spanish > English | |
| Yuki Kawaguchi | English > Japanese Medical Translation | |
| Thaïs Kitahara | English > Brazilian Portuguese Subtitling | |
| Eleni Markou | English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation | |
| Dr Tzu-yu Lin | English>Chinese Translation; Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies; Postcolonial Translation; Multilingualism and Translation; Theatre Translation | yes |
| Aoi Matsushima | English > Japanese | |
| Veronica Miller | English>Russian Interpreting, Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover and Dubbing, Culture, History and Economics | |
| Renata Mliczak | English > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing | |
| Dr Vicent Montalt | English > Spanish Medical Translation | |
| Dr Marga Navarrete | English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation; Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation | |
| Ania Plank | English > Polish Medical Translation | |
| Dr Anna Ponomareva | English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation; History of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian Formalism | |
| Dr Cécile Renaud | English > French Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing | |
| Dr Claire Shih | Translation and Interpreting Studies; Translation Process Research; Web Search in Translation | yes |
| Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter | Language and Translation | |
| David Stockings | German > English | |
| Dr Caiwen Wang | English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics | |
| Shak Yousaf | Lecturer (Teaching) in Audia Description | |
| Dr Soledad Zárate | Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling | |
| Dr Xiaochun Zhang | English > Chinese Translation; Game localisation, Game Accessibility, Fan Audiovisual Translation, Translation Technology, Practical Translation English to Chinese | yes |
| Honorary Staff and Emeritus Professors | ||
| Dr Akkad Alhussein | ||
| Professor Rachel Bowlby | ||
| Professor Geraldine Brodie | Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song | |
| Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox | ||
| Professor Bill Bynum | ||
| Dr Lesley Caldwell | ||
| Professor Edward Chaney | Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations; 20th-century British Art and its literary context; Inigo Jones and Europe; the history of collecting; tradition and the Legacy of Ancient Egypt; G.B. Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page | |
| Professor Frederic Chaume | ||
| Maria Darnley | ||
| Professor Jo Evans | 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space | |
| Professor Jane Fenoulhet | ||
| Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti | ||
| Professor Evelyn Fishburn | ||
| Dr Barbara Garvin | ||
| Dr Jacqueline Glomski | Neo-Latin prose writing and history of the book | |
| Dr Robert Goodwin | ||
| Professor Theo Hermans | ||
| Professor Dilwyn Knox | Late medieval philosophy; Renaissance philosophy; Copernicus and Copernicanism; Renaissance rhetoric and logic; Marsilio Ficino; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Giordano Bruno; Civility, early modern ideas of; Gestures, medieval and Renaissance ideas of | |
| Professor Christopher Lawrence | ||
| Professor Andrew Leak | ||
| Dr Phil Leask | ||
| Dr Christina Lee | ||
| Professor Robert Lumley | ||
| Noelia Marques-Cobeta | ||
| Dr Serenella Massidda | ||
| Professor Tim Mathews | 20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing. | |
| Dr Marta Niccolai | Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; race; political theatre | |
| Dr Kristijan Nikolic | CAT Tools; Culture Specific Items; Interlingual Subtitling; Literary Translation; Technology; Subtitling Profession | |
| Professor Vivian Nutton | ||
| Professor Enrico Palandri | Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics | |
| Dr Nicholas Piercey | ||
| Dr Tiziana Provvidera | ||
| Dr Gerdi Quist | ||
| Professor Irene Ranzato | ||
| Professor Reinier Salverda | ||
| Dr Alicia Spencer-Hall | Honorary Senior Research Fellow | |
| Professor Martin Swales | ||
| Dr Torsten Thomsen | Comparative Literature; Danish Romanticism; Hans Christian Andersen; Fairy Tale Studies; World Literature | |
| Professor John Took | ||
| Dr Diana Beatrix Tyson | ||
| Professor Ann Varley | ||
| Dr Andrew Wear | ||
| Professor Michael Worton |
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Departmental office location:
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