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A Ms Synnøve Aasen Translation Studies English > Norwegian Medical Translation Robyn Adams Early Modern Studies James Agar French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema Ms Maria José Anjos Translation Studies English > Portuguese Subtitling Haki Antonsson Early Modern Studies, European Studies, Scandinavian Studies 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 Dr Seth Anziska Comparative Literature Ruth Austin French Studies Cocteau; Dystopias/Utopias; Vichy France; World War I; World War II Occupation France B Dr Benjamin Bâcle French Studies British and French Romanticism; French Eclecticism; French Personalism; French Revolution; French Political Thought Since 1789; Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism/Anti-Utilitarianism Dr Emily Baker Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Felicity Baker French Studies Dr Rocío Baños Piñero Translation Studies Professor Kathryn Batchelor Translation Studies Africa-China Relations; Francophone literature (African, Caribbean, North African); Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial Studies; Translation (Literary Translation - French and German if a Practical Element is Involved); Translation History; Translation Theory Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Comparative Literature, Creative Critical Writing PhD Mara Benetti Translation Studies English > Italian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Judith Beniston Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History Dr Stephen Bennetts Italian Studies Ms Ingrid Berglund Translation Studies English > Swedish Voiceover & Dubbing Professor Zoltan Biedermann Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature Professor Stephanie Bird Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies Dr Uillieam Blacker Comparative Literature Dr María del Pilar Blanco Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Sergei Bogatyrev Early Modern Studies Mr Alejandro Bolanos García-Escribano Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies 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 Dr Lucy Bollington Comparative Literature, Film Studies Dr Jeff Bowersox German Studies Colonialism; Culture; Europe; Germany; History; Migration; Nation; Race Professor Rachel Bowlby Comparative Literature Wendy Bracewell Early Modern Studies Dr Patrick Bray Comparative Literature, French Studies Professor Celia Britton French Studies Dr Geraldine Brodie Comparative Literature, Translation Studies Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song Professor Stella Bruzzi Film Studies Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox Italian Studies Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski Early Modern Studies Professor W. F. Bynum Health Humanities C Dr Lesley Caldwell Italian Studies Jelena Calic Scandinavian Studies Andrew Campbell Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies Olga Campofreda Italian Studies Dr Elettra Carbone Scandinavian Studies 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) Ms Elsa Castro Translation Studies English > Portuguese Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Deborah Chan Translation Studies English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Professor Edward Chaney Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Frederic Chaume Translation Studies Dr Eleanor Chiari Italian Studies, Language & Culture BA Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture Dr James Connolly European Studies, French Studies, Language Culture & History MA 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 Stephen Conway Early Modern Studies Jo Cook Gender and Sexuality Studies Sebastian Coxon Early Modern Studies, German Studies Beards, Hair and Baldness; Comedy; Cultures of Laughter; Heroic Epic; Medieval Literature; Picaresque Novel Dr Joyce Crick German Studies D Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Maria Darnley Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Mererid Puw Davies German Studies Paul Davis Early Modern Studies Dr Christophe Declercq Translation Studies British Area Studies (1789-1945); Localisation; Socio-Cultural Transnational History (1900-1945); Translation (Post-Editing Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation) Dr Hans Demeyer Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction Sandra Deichsel German Studies Dr Francesca Denegri Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Louisa Desilla Translation Studies English > Greek Subtitling Diana Dethloff Early Modern Studies Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas Translation Studies Audio Description; Dubbing; Subtitling; Translation Technology; Translation Theory; Voiceover; Access to the Media; Fan Dubbing; Fan Subbing; Practical Translation English Into Spanish Professor John Dickie Italian Studies 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 Alison Diduck Gender and Sexuality Studies E Ms Sarah El Hassani French Studies Professor Jo Evans Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies F Bianca Facchini Early Modern Studies Charlotte Faircloth Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Ernst Falzeder Health Humanities Dr Federico M. Federici Translation Studies Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises Mechthild Fend Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Fenoulhet Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti Italian Studies Ancient Greek (some); Antisemitism; English (fluent); French (fluent); German (basic); Hebrew (basic); Italian (mother tongue); Latin; Marriage/Divorce; Minorities; Modern Italian History; Modern Jewish History; Nationalism; Race Professor Evelyn Fishburn Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Diego de Jesús Flores-Jaime Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Emily Floyd Early Modern Studies Ms Daniela Ford Translation Studies Translation Technology, English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Katharina Forster German Studies Dr Kate Foster Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture Marie Fournier French Studies Mary Frank German Studies Dr Louise Fryer Translation Studies Accessibility; Audio Description; Blindness; Cognition; Genre; Media Accessibility; Medium; Translation; Universal Design; Live Events; Screen Professor Mary Fulbrook German Studies G Ms Marta Gabrych Translation Studies English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation Professor Angel María García Gómez Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Barbara Garvin Italian Studies Dr Niall Geraghty Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Ms Kristin Gerdes Translation Studies English > German Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Dr Jane Gilbert Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies 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 Dr Erin Goeres Scandinavian Studies Hugh Goodacre Early Modern Studies Dr Robert Goodwin Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Angus Gowland Early Modern Studies Professor Lee Grieveson Film Studies 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 Anais Griffiths French Studies Dr Anne Grydehøj Scandinavian Studies Comparative Literature; Crime Fiction; Culture (Scandinavian Language and Culture); Identity and Intersectionality; Mediatisation; Minority Languages and Literatures; Modern French and Francophone Studies; Sociolinguistics Haddour - Algerian War; Fanon; Marxism; North African Literature; Postcolonialism; Psychoanalysis; Race; Sexuality Francois Guesnet Early Modern Studies Ms Helle Gulowsen Translation Studies English > Norwegian Scientific & Technical Translation H Helen Hackett Early Modern Studies Dr Azzedine Haddour Comparative Literature, French Studies Professor Mairéad Hanrahan French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Jesper Hansen Scandinavian Studies Dr Mihye Harker Translation Studies English > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Professor Stephen M. Hart Comparative Literature, Documentary-track PhD, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Mr Luay Hasan Translation Studies English > Arabic Medical Translation Dr Tessa Hauswedell Dutch Studies, European Studies Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity Karen Hearn Early Modern Studies Professor Theo Hermans Dutch Studies, Translation Studies Philippa Hetherington Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Mark Hewitson German Studies European Integration; German History; Globalisation; Historical Theory; Nationalism; World War I Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir Scandinavian Studies 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 Rachel E. Holmes Early Modern Studies Julian Hoppit Early Modern Studies Dr Geraldine Horan German Studies Sociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics Ezra Horbury Early Modern Studies Dr Alex Hyde Gender and Sexuality Studies Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation I Kevin Inston European Studies, French Studies Community; Democracy; Equality; Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Nancy; Rancière; Rousseau Chloe Ireton Early Modern Studies J Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies 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 K Professor Ben Kaplan Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies Ms Yuki Kawaguchi Translation Studies English > Japanese Medical Translation Dr Catherine Keen Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies Gerard Kilroy Early Modern Studies Maki Kimura Gender and Sexuality Studies Mr Haydn Kirnon Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies Spanish > English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation & Subtitling Ms Thaïs Kitahara Translation Studies English > Brazilian Portuguese Subtitling Brian Klaas European Studies 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 Professor Dilwyn Knox Italian Studies Professor Susanne Kord Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre) Dr Mart Kuldkepp European Studies, Scandinavian Studies Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I L Dr Roland Francois Lack Film Studies, French Studies Dr Juan Lalaguna Translation Studies English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation & History of Translation Jagjeet Lally Early Modern Studies Professor Annette Lavers French Studies Professor Christopher Lawrence Health Humanities Professor Andrew Leak French Studies Professor Miriam Leonard Comparative Literature Professor Giulio Lepschy Italian Studies Professor Laura Lepschy Italian Studies Caren Levy Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Xiaofan Amy Li Comparative Literature, French Studies Dr Martin Liebscher German Studies, Health Humanities Dr Tzu-yu Lin Translation Studies Comparative Postcolonial Studies; Taiwanese Literature and Memory Studies; Translation (Literary Translation); Translation (Postcolonial Translation); World Literature Dr Claire Lindsay Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Annika Lindskog Scandinavian Studies Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation Vivienne Lo Gender and Sexuality Studies Simon Lock Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Robert Lumley Italian Studies M Ms Haguer Mabrouk French Studies Professor Kevin MacDonald African Studies William MacLehose Early Modern Studies Gesine Manuwald Early Modern Studies Dr Eleni Markou Translation Studies English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Professor Philippe Marlière French Studies Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism Dr Deborah Martin Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Cristina Massaccesi Film Studies, Italian Studies Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema Dr Serenella Massidda Translation Studies English > Italian Voiceover & Dubbing Dr Jann Matlock Comparative Literature, Film Studies, French Studies Professor Timothy Mathews Comparative Literature, French Studies Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Ms Veronica Miller Translation Studies English > Russian Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Robert Mills Gender and Sexuality Studies Sarah Milne Early Modern Studies Professor Zoran Milutinović Comparative Literature Ms Renata Mliczak Translation Studies English > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Richard Mole Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Vicent Montalt Translation Studies English > Spanish Medical Translation Rosemary Moore Early Modern Studies Ms Danielle Mordini Translation Studies English > Brazilian Portuguese Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Voiceover & Dubbing Professor Alberto Moreiras Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Rachel Morley Film Studies Victoria Moul Early Modern Studies Dr Florian Mussgnug Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature N Ms Marga Navarrete Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation; Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach African Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families Dr Marta Niccolai Italian Studies Dr Kristijan Nikolic Translation Studies CAT Tools; Culture Specific Items; Interlingual Subtitling; Literary Translation; Technology; Subtitling Profession Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Indigenism; Literary Influence; Literature of Ideas; Poetics; Political Philosophy; Spanish American Independence Professor Vivian Nutton Health Humanities O Dr Sharon O'Brien Translation Studies Dr Mazal Oaknin Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies P Professor Enrico Palandri Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics Jenny Parkes Gender and Sexuality Studies Christina Parte German Studies Kamna Patel Gender and Sexuality Studies Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki Translation Studies Translation Technology, Language & Automation, Scientific & Technical Translation; Access Services; Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Audio Description; Corpora; Greek; Localisation; SDH; Subtitling; Translation (Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation); Translation Technology Dr Dagmar Paulus German Studies German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Jason Peacey Early Modern Studies Dr Adrian Pearce Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Ms Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Mrs Ania Plank Translation Studies English > Polish Medical Translation Mrs Anna Ponomareva Translation Studies 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 Tiziana Provvidera Italian Studies Q Dr Gerdi Quist Dutch Studies R Dr Thibaut Raboin French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer Martyn Rady Early Modern Studies Dr Joana Rita Ramalho Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies 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 Dr Cécile Renaud French Studies, Translation Studies English > French Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Jane Rendell Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Graham Richards Health Humanities Dr Lucia Rinaldi Film Studies, Italian Studies Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema Dr Annie Ring Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies 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 Jessica Ringrose Gender and Sexuality Studies Charlotte Roberts Early Modern Studies Rachel Rosen Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Stefano Rossoni Gender and Sexuality Studies, Italian Studies Karine Roumetz French Studies Dr Jennifer Rushworth Comparative Literature, French Studies Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory Ms Monika Rusinska Translation Studies English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation S Professor Reinier Salverda Dutch Studies Professor Vieri Samek-Lodovici Italian Studies 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) Lisa Sampson Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing Dr Alexander Samson Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies 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 Rose Marie San Juan Early Modern Studies Christine Sas Dutch Studies Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Standardisation (History of); Language, Power and Ideology; Multilingualism Peter Schroeder Early Modern Studies Sofia Sciardo Italian Studies Professor Sonu Shamdasani German Studies, Health Humanities Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry Dr Prue Shaw Italian Studies Dr Claire Shih Translation Studies Ms Yoshiko Shimizu Translation Studies English > Japanese Scientific & Technical Translation; Dubbing; Interpreting; Japanese; Subtitling; Translation (Crisis Translation); Translation (Legal Translation); Voiceover Victoria Showunmi Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Beatrice Sica Comparative Literature, Italian Studies 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 Ms Fiona Soliman Translation Studies Spanish>English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter Translation Studies Language and Translation Chris Stamatakis Early Modern Studies Professor Peter Standish Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Judy Stephenson Early Modern Studies Allison Stielau Early Modern Studies Professor Melvyn Stokes Film Studies Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies Mr Sam Strong Translation Studies Localisation Dr Ana Claudia Surian da Silva Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Book History; Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies Professor Martin Swales German Studies Dr Matthew Symonds Early Modern Studies Dr Agnieszka Szarkowska Translation Studies T Dr Claire Thomson Film Studies, Scandinavian Studies Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema Ulrich Tiedau Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor John Took Italian Studies Dr Diana Tyson French Studies U Elaine Unterhalter Gender and Sexuality Studies Reinier van Straten European Studies, German Studies V Professor Ann Varley Gender and Sexuality Studies Ageing; Family Law; Gender; Home; Household; Housing; Latin America; Marriage; Sexuality Comparative Literature Professor Megan Vaughan Health Humanities Steven Vaughan Gender and Sexuality Studies Brian Vickers Early Modern Studies Dr Breixo Viejo Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Paul Vincent Dutch Studies W Dr Keith Wagner Film Studies Adaptation and Genre Theory; Animation and Subculture; Cosmopolitanism Digital Culture; Film and Culture (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone); Global South and North Media Systems; Globalisation and Regionalisation; Neoliberalism and Financialisation; Precarity; Theories of Global Cinema/Global Literature; Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone Film and Culture Julian Walker Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Caiwen Wang Translation Studies English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics Dr Andrew Wear Health Humanities Christina Weichselbaumer German Studies René Weis Early Modern Studies Anne Welsh Early Modern Studies Simon Werrett Early Modern Studies Dr Geoff Williams Translation Studies German > English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ian Williams Early Modern Studies Dr James Wilson Health Humanities Professor Jason Wilson Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Gareth Wood Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Michael Worton French Studies Alison Wright Early Modern Studies Maria Wyke Early Modern Studies X Y Z Dr Soledad Zárate Translation Studies Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling Dr Peter Zusi Comparative Literature
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- African Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director 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 This programme is currently not running
- Comparative Literature
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director (BA) Dr Jennifer Rushworth Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory Coming soon... Programme Director (MA) Professor Stephen M. Hart Academic staff Dr Emily Baker Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Dr Lucy Bollington Professor Rachel Bowlby Dr Hans Demeyer Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction Dr Kate Foster Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture Dr Xiaofan Amy Li Dr Jann Matlock Dr Florian Mussgnug Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature 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 Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Professor Phiroze Vasunia Dr Peter Zusi Associated staff Dr Seth Anziska Dr 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 Professor Stephanie Bird Dr Uillieam Blacker Dr Patrick Bray Dr Geraldine Brodie Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio Professor Jo Evans Dr Niall Geraghty Dr 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 Dr Azzedine Haddour Dr Catherine Keen Professor Susanne Kord Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre) Professor Miriam Leonard Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri Professor Zoran Milutinović Professor Enrico Palandri Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics Dr 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 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 Dr Ana Claudia Surian da Silva Book History; Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies Dr Gareth Wood Emeritus professors Professor Jane Fenoulhet Professor Timothy Mathews - Creative Critical Writing PhD
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Coming soon... - Documentary Track PhD
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Professor Stephen Hart Coming soon... - Dutch Studies / Low Countries Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Dutch Studies / Language Coordinator Christine Sas Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Standardisation (History of); Language, Power and Ideology; Multilingualism Low Countries Studies Centre Director Professor Jane Fenoulhet Low Countries History seminar series Professor Ben Kaplan Academic and teaching staff Dr Hans Demeyer Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction 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 Ulrich Tiedau Honorary staff Dr Gerdi Quist Professor Reinier Salverda Paul Vincent Emeriti Professor Jane Fenoulhet Professor Theo Hermans - Early Modern Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Dr Matthew Symonds Coming soon... Teaching staff Robyn Adams 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 Zoltan Biedermann Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature Sergei Bogatyrev Wendy Bracewell Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski Andrew Campbell Stephen Conway Sebastian Coxon Beards, Hair and Baldness; Comedy; Cultures of Laughter; Heroic Epic; Medieval Literature; Picaresque Novel Paul Davis Diana Dethloff Bianca Facchini Emily Floyd 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 Hugh Goodacre Angus Gowland Francois Guesnet Helen Hackett Karen Hearn Rachel E. Holmes Julian Hoppit Ezra Horbury Chloe Ireton Ben Kaplan Catherine Keen Gerard Kilroy Jagjeet Lally William MacLehose Gesine Manuwald Thibaut Maus de Rolley Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia Sarah Milne Rosemary Moore Victoria Moul Jason Peacey Martyn Rady Charlotte Roberts Lisa Sampson Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing 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 Rose Marie San Juan Peter Schroeder Chris Stamatakis Judy Stephenson Allison Stielau Ulrich Tiedau Brian Vickers René Weis Anne Welsh Simon Werrett Ian Williams Alison Wright Maria Wyke - European Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Dr Mart Kuldkepp Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I Coming soon... Teaching staff 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 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 Tessa Hauswedell Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity Kevin Inston Community; Democracy; Equality; Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Nancy; Rancière; Rousseau 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 Reinier van Straten - Film Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor Core staff Professor Stella Bruzzi Coming soon... 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 Programme Director Dr Keith Wagner Adaptation and Genre Theory; Animation and Subculture; Cosmopolitanism Digital Culture; Film and Culture (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone); Global South and North Media Systems; Globalisation and Regionalisation; Neoliberalism and Financialisation; Precarity; Theories of Global Cinema/Global Literature; Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone Film and Culture Teaching staff Dr Emily Baker Professor Stephanie Bird Dr Lucy Bollington Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio Professor Jo Evans Dr Kate Foster Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture Professor Stephen Hart Professor Susanne Kord Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre) Dr Helene Neveu Kringelbach Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families Dr Roland Francois Lack Dr Claire Lindsay Dr Deborah Martin Dr Cristina Massaccesi Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema Dr Jann Matlock Dr Rachel Morley Dr Lucia Rinaldi Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema 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 Professor Melvyn Stokes Dr Claire Thomson Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema - French Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of French Studies Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia Coming soon... Language coordinator Marie Fournier Academic and teaching staff James Agar Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema 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 Dr Patrick M Bray 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 Dr 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 Anais Griffiths Dr Azzedine Haddour Professor Mairéad Hanrahan Dr Kevin Inston Community; Democracy; Equality; Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Nancy; Rancière; Rousseau Dr Roland-François Lack Dr Xiaofan Amy Li Professor Philippe Marlière Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism Dr Jann Matlock Dr Thibaut Raboin Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer Dr Cécile Renaud Karine Roumetz Dr Jennifer Rushworth Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory French Lecteurs/Lectrices Ms Sarah El Hassani Ms Haguer Mabrouk Emeritus and Honorary Appointments Dr Felicity Baker Professor Celia Britton Professor Annette Lavers Professor Andrew Leak Professor Timothy Mathews Dr Diana Tyson Professor Michael Worton - Gender and Sexuality Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Professor Ann Varley Ageing; Family Law; Gender; Home; Household; Housing; Latin America; Marriage; Sexuality Coming soon... Core academic staff Dr Alex Hyde (on leave until 31 August 2020) Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation Dr Stefano Rossoni (cover until 31 August 2020) Dr Thibaut Raboin Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer Teaching staff James Agar Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema 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 Jo Cook Alison Diduck Charlotte Faircloth Mechthild Fend Kate Foster Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture 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 Mairéad Hanrahan Philippa Hetherington Maki Kimura Caren Levy Vivienne Lo Simon Lock Deborah Martin Robert Mills Richard Mole Hélène Neveu Kringelbach Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families Jenny Parkes Kamna Patel Jane Rendell 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 Jessica Ringrose Rachel Rosen Victoria Showunmi Ulrich Tiedau Elaine Unterhalter Steven Vaughan Julian Walker - German Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of German Studies Coming soon... Language coordinator Dr Dagmar Paulus German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Academic and teaching staff Dr 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 Professor Stephanie Bird Dr Jeff Bowersox Colonialism; Culture; Europe; Germany; History; Migration; Nation; Race Dr Sebastian Coxon Beards, Hair and Baldness; Comedy; Cultures of Laughter; Heroic Epic; Medieval Literature; Picaresque Novel Professor Mary Fulbrook Professor Mark Hewitson European Integration; German History; Globalisation; Historical Theory; Nationalism; World War I Dr Geraldine Horan Sociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics Professor Susanne Kord Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre) Dr Martin Liebscher Christina Parte Dr Dagmar Paulus German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 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 Professor Sonu Shamdasani Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry Dr Reinier van Straten Postgraduate teaching assistant Mathis Gronau Lektoren Sandra Deichsel Katharina Forster Christina Weichselbaumer Honorary and Emeritus staff Dr Joyce Crick Professor Martin Swales - Health Humanities / Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Directors Professor Sonu Shamdasani Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry Coming soon... Dr James Wilson Teaching staff Dr Martin Liebscher Professor Megan Vaughan Dr Ernst Falzeder Dr Graham Richards Emeritus staff Professor W. F. Bynum Professor Christopher Lawrence Professor Vivian Nutton Dr Andrew Wear Steering Committee Dr Claire Elliot Dr Sarah Edwards Dr Sahra Gibbon Dr Brian Glasser Professor Nora Groce Dr Sushrut Jadhav Dr Deborah Kirklin Dr Vivienne Lo Professor Martin Marshall Dr Joanna Moncrieff Professor Jonathan Montgomery Professor Steve Morris Professor Véronique Munoz-Dardé Dr Shepley Orr Dr Sarah Richmond Dr Prince Saprai Dr Ian Scott Professor Jonathan Wolff Associates Professor Richard Bellamy Professor Dame Hazel Genn Professor Dame Anne Johnson Professor Raymond MacAllister Professor Sir Michael Marmot Professor Rosalind Raine Professor Geraint Rees Dr Benedict Rumbold Dr Gaia Domenici International associates Dr Maria Teresa Brancaccio Professor Ramón del Castillo Fuhito Endo Dr Eric Engstrom Professor Cristina Facchinetti Dr Chantal Marazia Professor Annette Mülberger Professor Robert Segal Dr Craig Stephenson Professor Fernando Vidal - Italian Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Italian Studies 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 Coming soon... Language Coordinator Dr Cristina Massaccesi Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema Academic and teaching staff Andrew Campbell Dr Eleanor Chiari Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture 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 Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti Ancient Greek (some); Antisemitism; English (fluent); French (fluent); German (basic); Hebrew (basic); Italian (mother tongue); Latin; Marriage/Divorce; Minorities; Modern Italian History; Modern Jewish History; Nationalism; Race Dr Catherine Keen Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri Dr Florian Mussgnug Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature Dr Marta Niccolai Professor Enrico Palandri Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics Dr Lucia Rinaldi Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema 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) Dr Lisa Sampson Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing Postgraduate teaching assistants Olga Campofreda Dr Stefano Rossoni Lettore Sofia Sciardo Emeritus Professors & Honorary Appointments Dr Stephen Bennetts Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox Dr Lesley Caldwell Dr Barbara Garvin Professor Dilwyn Knox Professor Laura Lepschy Professor Giulio Lepschy Professor Robert Lumley Dr Tiziana Provvidera Dr Prue Shaw Professor John Took - Language & Culture BA
Staff type 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 Coming soon... - Language, Culture & History MA
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director 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 Coming soon... - Scandinavian Studies
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Scandinavian Studies Dr Erin Goeres Coming soon... Language coordinator Dr Anne Grydehøj Comparative Literature; Crime Fiction; Culture (Scandinavian Language and Culture); Identity and Intersectionality; Mediatisation; Minority Languages and Literatures; Modern French and Francophone Studies; Sociolinguistics Haddour - Algerian War; Fanon; Marxism; North African Literature; Postcolonialism; Psychoanalysis; Race; Sexuality Academic and teaching staff Dr 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 Jelena Calic 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) Jesper Hansen 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 Annika Lindskog Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation Dr Mart Kuldkepp Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Dr 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
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Gareth Wood Coming soon... Language coordinators Ms Marga Navarrete Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation Dr Mazal Oaknin Dr Joana Rita 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 Professor Zoltán Biedermann Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature Mr Alejandro Bolanos 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 Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio Professor Jo Evans Diego de Jesús Flores-Jaime Dr Niall Geraghty Professor Stephen Hart 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 Dr Deborah Martin Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco Indigenism; Literary Influence; Literature of Ideas; Poetics; Political Philosophy; Spanish American Independence Dr Adrian Pearce Ms Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro Dr Joana Rita 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 Dr 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 Dr Ana Cláudia Surian da Silva Book History; Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies Emeritus Professors & Honorary Research Associates Dr María del Pilar Blanco Professor Edward Chaney Maria Darnley Dr Francesca Denegri Professor Evelyn Fishburn Professor Angel María García Gómez Dr Robert Goodwin Professor Alberto Moreiras Professor Peter Standish Dr Breixo Viejo Professor Jason Wilson - Translation Studies (CenTraS)
Staff type Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Translation Studies (CenTraS) &
Programme Director (PhD/MPhil)Professor Kathryn Batchelor Africa-China Relations; Francophone literature (African, Caribbean, North African); Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial Studies; Translation (Literary Translation - French and German if a Practical Element is Involved); Translation History; Translation Theory Coming soon... Programme Director (MA) Dr Claire Shih Programme Director (MSc) Dr Rocío Baños Piñero Academic staff Dr Geraldine Brodie Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song Dr Christophe Declercq British Area Studies (1789-1945); Localisation; Socio-Cultural Transnational History (1900-1945); Translation (Post-Editing Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised 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 Dr Federico M. Federici Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises Professor Theo Hermans Teaching Fellows Ms Synnøve Aasen English > Norwegian Medical Translation Ms Maria José Anjos English > Portuguese Subtitling Mara Benetti English > Italian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Ingrid Berglund English > Swedish Voiceover & Dubbing Mr Alejandro Bolanos 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 Ms Elsa Castro English > Portuguese Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Deborah Chan English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Dr Louisa Desilla English > Greek Subtitling Ms Daniela Ford Translation Technology, English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Louise Fryer Accessibility; Audio Description; Blindness; Cognition; Genre; Media Accessibility; Medium; Translation; Universal Design; Live Events; Screen Ms Marta Gabrych English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Kristin Gerdes English > German Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Ms Helle Gulowsen English > Norwegian Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Mihye Harker English > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Mr Luay Hasan English > Arabic Medical Translation Ms Yuki Kawaguchi English > Japanese Medical Translation Ms Thaïs Kitahara English > Brazilian Portuguese Subtitling Mr Haydn Kirnon Spanish > English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation & Subtitling Dr Juan Lalaguna English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation & History of Translation Dr Eleni Markou English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Serenella Massidda English > Italian Voiceover & Dubbing Ms Veronica Miller English > Russian Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Ms Renata Mliczak English > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Dr Vicent Montalt English > Spanish Medical Translation Ms Danielle Mordini English > Brazilian Portuguese Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Voiceover & Dubbing Ms Marga Navarrete English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation; Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki Translation Technology, Language & Automation, Scientific & Technical Translation; Access Services; Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Audio Description; Corpora; Greek; Localisation; SDH; Subtitling; Translation (Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation); Translation Technology Mrs Ania Plank English > Polish Medical Translation Mrs 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 Ms Monika Rusinska English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Yoshiko Shimizu English > Japanese Scientific & Technical Translation; Dubbing; Interpreting; Japanese; Subtitling; Translation (Crisis Translation); Translation (Legal Translation); Voiceover Ms Fiona Soliman Spanish>English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter Language and Translation Dr Sam Strong Localisation Dr Caiwen Wang English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics Dr Geoff Williams German > English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Soledad Zárate Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling Research Fellows Dr Tzu-yu Lin Comparative Postcolonial Studies; Taiwanese Literature and Memory Studies; Translation (Literary Translation); Translation (Postcolonial Translation); World Literature Dr Agnieszka Szarkowska Honorary appointments Professor Frederic Chaume Dr Serenella Massidda Dr Kristijan Nikolic CAT Tools; Culture Specific Items; Interlingual Subtitling; Literary Translation; Technology; Subtitling Profession Dr Sharon O'Brien Professor Irene Ranzato
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