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Role Name Director of African Studies (MA) Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach Director of Comparative Literature (BA) Dr Emily Baker Director of Comparative Literature (MA/PhD) Dr Hans Demeyer Director of Creative Critical Writing (PhD) Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Director of Documentary-track (PhD) Professor Stephen Hart Director of Dutch Studies Christine Sas 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 Mart Kuldkepp Director of Film Studies (MA/PhD) Dr Tom Cunliffe Director of French and Francophone Studies Professor Jane Gilbert Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies (MA/PhD) Professor Ann Varley Director of German Studies Dr Jeff Bowersox Director of Health Humanities (MA/PhD) Professor Sonu Shamdasani Director of Italian Studies Professor John Dickie Director of Language & Culture (BA) Dr Eleanor Chiari Director of Language, Culture & History (MA) Dr James Connolly (term 1 and 3)
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Name Associated programme(s) A Dr Robyn Adams Early Modern Studies Mr James Agar French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Ms Maria José Anjos Translation Studies Dr Christina Anderson Daphne Jackson Senior Research Fellow Professor Haki Antonssen Early Modern Studies, European Studies, Scandinavian Studies Dr Seth Anziska Comparative Literature Ms Ruth Austin French Studies B Dr Benjamin Bâcle French Studies Ms Lydie Baillon French Studies Dr Bettina Bajaj Translation Studies Dr Emily Baker Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Rocío Baños Piñero Translation Studies Professor Kathryn Batchelor Translation Studies Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Comparative Literature, Creative Critical Writing PhD Dr Judith Beniston Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies Dr Stephen Bennetts Italian Studies Professor Zoltan Biedermann Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Stephanie Bird Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies Dr Uillieam Blacker Comparative Literature Dr Sergei Bogatyrev Early Modern Studies Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies Dr Lucy Bollington Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies Dr Jeff Bowersox German Studies Professor Rachel Bowlby Comparative Literature Professor Wendy Bracewell Early Modern Studies Professor Patrick Bray Comparative Literature, French Studies Professor Celia Britton French Studies Professor Geraldine Brodie Comparative Literature, Translation Studies Professor Stella Bruzzi Film Studies Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox Italian Studies Professor Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski Early Modern Studies Professor Bill Bynum Health Humanities C Dr Lesley Caldwell Italian Studies Dr Jelena Calic Scandinavian Studies Ms Olga Campofreda Italian Studies Dr Elettra Carbone Scandinavian Studies Ms Elsa Castro Translation Studies Ms Deborah Chan Translation Studies Professor Edward Chaney Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Frederic Chaume Translation Studies Dr Eleanor Chiari Italian Studies, Language & Culture BA Dr Olivia Cockburn Translation Studies Dr James Connolly European Studies, French Studies, Language Culture & History MA Professor Stephen Conway Early Modern Studies Dr Jo Cook Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Seb Coxon Medieval Studies, German Studies Dr Tom Cunliffe Film Studies D Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Selena Daly Italian Studies Professor Mererid Puw Davies German Studies Professor Paul Davis Early Modern Studies Dr Christophe Declercq Translation Studies Dr Hans Demeyer Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies Ms Diana Dethloff Early Modern Studies Dr Alice Dias-Mercier French and Francophone Studies Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas Translation Studies Professor John Dickie Italian Studies Professor Alison Diduck Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson Film Studies E Dr Richard Espley Comparative Literature Professor Jo Evans Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies F Dr Bianca Facchini Early Modern Studies Dr Charlotte Faircloth Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Rebecca Falkoff Italian Studies Dr Ernst Falzeder Health Humanities Professor Federico M. Federici Translation Studies Mechthild Fend Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Fenoulhet Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Emily Floyd Early Modern Studies Mrs Daniela Ford Translation Studies Dr Katharina Forster German Studies Ms Marie Fournier French Studies Professor Mary Fulbrook German Studies G Ms Marta Gabrych Translation Studies Dr Barbara Garvin Italian Studies Dr Niall Geraghty Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Ms Kristin Gerdes Translation Studies Professor Jane Gilbert Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Erin Goeres Scandinavian Studies Dr Hugh Goodacre Early Modern Studies Dr Robert Goodwin Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Angus Gowland Early Modern Studies Professor Lee Grieveson Film Studies Ms Anais Griffiths French Studies Dr Anne Grydehøj Scandinavian Studies Professor. Francois Guesnet Early Modern Studies Ms Helle Gulowsen Translation Studies H Professor Helen Hackett Early Modern Studies Professor Azzedine Haddour Comparative Literature, French Studies Professor Mairéad Hanrahan French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Mr Jesper Hansen Scandinavian Studies Dr Mihye Harker Translation Studies Professor Stephen M. Hart Comparative Literature, Documentary-track PhD, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Mr Luay Hasan Translation Studies Dr Tessa Hauswedell Dutch Studies, European Studies Dr Karen Hearn Early Modern Studies Professor Theo Hermans Dutch Studies, Translation Studies Dr Philippa Hetherington Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Mark Hewitson German Studies, European Studies Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir Scandinavian Studies Dr Rachel E. Holmes Early Modern Studies Dr Geraldine Horan German Studies Dr Ezra Horbury Early Modern Studies Dr Alex Hyde Gender and Sexuality Studies I Dr Kevin Inston European Studies, French Studies Dr Chloe Ireton Early Modern Studies J Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies K Professor Ben Kaplan Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies Ms Yuki Kawaguchi Translation Studies Professor Catherine Keen Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies Dr Maki Kimura Gender and Sexuality Studies Mr Haydn Kirnon Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies Mr Terry King Ms Thaïs Kitahara Translation Studies Dr Brian Klaas European Studies Professor Dilwyn Knox Italian Studies Professor Susanne Kord Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies Dr Mart Kuldkepp European Studies, Scandinavian Studies L Dr Juan Lalaguna Translation Studies Dr Jagjeet Lally Early Modern 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 Professor 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 Professor Claire Lindsay Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Ms Annika Lindskog Scandinavian Studies Professor Vivienne Lo Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Simon Lock Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Robert Lumley Italian Studies M Professor Kevin MacDonald African Studies Professor Gesine Manuwald Early Modern Studies Dr Eleni Markou Translation Studies Professor Philippe Marlière French Studies Ms Kate Marlow Professor Deborah Martin Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Cristina Massaccesi Film Studies, Italian Studies Dr Serenella Massidda Translation Studies Dr Jann Matlock Comparative Literature, Film Studies, French Studies Professor Tim Mathews Comparative Literature, French Studies Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Ms Veronica Miller Translation Studies Professor Bob Mills Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Zoran Milutinović Comparative Literature Ms Renata Mliczak Translation Studies Ms Daniela Mittelstadt Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Richard Mole Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Vicent Montalt Translation Studies Dr Rosemary Moore Early Modern Studies Ms Danielle Mordini Translation Studies Professor Alberto Moreiras Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Rachel Morley Film Studies Dr Victoria Moul Early Modern Studies Ms Mathilde Murray French Studies Professor Florian Mussgnug Comparative Literature, Italian Studies N Dr Marga Navarrete Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach African Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Marta Niccolai Italian Studies Dr Kristijan Nikolic Translation Studies Dr Luke de Noronha Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Vivian Nutton Health Humanities O Dr Mazal Oaknin Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies P Professor Enrico Palandri Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Professor Jenny Parkes Gender and Sexuality Studies Ms Christina Parte German Studies Dr Paige Patchin Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies Dr Kamna Patel Gender and Sexuality Studies Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki Translation Studies Dr Dagmar Paulus German Studies Professor 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 Dr Anna Ponomareva Translation Studies Dr Tiziana Provvidera Italian Studies Mr James Puchowski Scandinavian Studies Q Dr Gerdi Quist Dutch Studies R Dr Thibaut Raboin French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Martyn Rady Early Modern Studies Dr Joana Rita Ramalho Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Cécile Renaud French Studies, Translation Studies Professor Jane Rendell Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Lucia Rinaldi Film Studies, Italian Studies Dr Annie Ring Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies Professor Jessica Ringrose Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Charlotte Roberts Early Modern Studies Dr Rachel Rosen Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Stefano Rossoni Gender and Sexuality Studies, Italian Studies Ms Karine Roumetz French Studies Dr Jennifer Rushworth Comparative Literature, French Studies Ms Monika Rusinska Translation Studies S Professor Reinier Salverda Dutch Studies Professor Vieri Samek-Lodovici Italian Studies Dr Lisa Sampson Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies Professor Alexander Samson Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Rose Marie San Juan Early Modern Studies Ms Christine Sas Dutch Studies Professor Peter Schroeder Early Modern Studies Dr Gianfranco Selgas Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Mr Yousaf Shak Translation Studies Professor Sonu Shamdasani German Studies, Health Humanities Dr Prue Shaw Italian Studies Dr Claire Shih Translation Studies Ms Yoshiko Shimizu Translation Studies Dr Victoria Showunmi Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Beatrice Sica Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Dr Leah Sidi Health Humanities Ms Fiona Soliman Translation Studies Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter Translation Studies Dr Chris Stamatakis Early Modern Studies Dr Judy Stephenson Early Modern Studies Dr Allison Stielau Early Modern Studies Professor Melvyn Stokes Film Studies Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies Mr Sam Strong Translation Studies Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Martin Swales German Studies Dr Matthew Symonds Early Modern Studies Dr Agnieszka Szarkowska Translation Studies T Professor Claire Thomson Film Studies, Scandinavian Studies Professor Ulrich Tiedau Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor John Took Italian Studies U Professor Elaine Unterhalter Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Reinier van Straten European Studies, German Studies V Professor Ann Varley Gender and Sexuality Studies Comparative Literature Professor Megan Vaughan Health Humanities Professor Steven Vaughan Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Brian Vickers Early Modern Studies Dr Breixo Viejo Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Mr Paul Vincent Dutch Studies W Mr Julian Walker Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Caiwen Wang Translation Studies Ms Christina Weichselbaumer German Studies Professor René Weis Early Modern Studies Professor Simon Werrett Early Modern Studies Dr Ian Williams Early Modern Studies Professor James Wilson Health Humanities Dr Gareth Wood Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Michael Worton French Studies Professor Alison Wright Early Modern Studies Professor Maria Wyke Early Modern Studies X Y Z Dr Soledad Zárate Translation Studies Dr Xiaochun Zhang English > Chinese Translation Dr Peter Zusi Comparative Literature
By programme:
- African Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... 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
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director (BA) Coming soon... Dr Jennifer Rushworth Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory Programme Director (MA / PhD) Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction Academic and teaching staff Dr Emily Baker Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Dr Lucy Bollington Professor Rachel Bowlby Dr Sonia Gollance Professor Stephen M. Hart 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. Dr Xiaofan Amy Li Dr Jann Matlock Professor 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 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 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 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. Dr Uillieam Blacker Professor Patrick Bray Professor Geraldine Brodie Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song Mr Andrew Campbell The life and works of Paolo Antonio Foscarini (c. 1562–1616); Renaissance encyclopedism; the disputation booklet in early modern Italy; weather forecasting in southern Italy, 1560–1640. 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 Professor Jo Evans 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space. Dr Niall Geraghty 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 Professor Azzedine Haddour 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. Professor Susanne Kord Cultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre). Professor Miriam Leonard Dr Tzu-yu Lin English > Chinese Translation 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 English and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fiction Professor Zoran Milutinović Dr Marta Niccolai Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; race; political theatre Professor Enrico Palandri Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics 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 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 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 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 Leah Sidi Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies; 19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion history 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation.
Emeritus professors Professor Jane Fenoulhet 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. Honorary Staff Dr Richard Espley - Creative Critical Writing PhD
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Dr Tim Beasley-Murray Professor Tim Mathews (Founding Director) 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. - Documentary Track PhD
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Professor Stephen Hart 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. - Dutch Studies / Low Countries Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Dutch Studies / Language Coordinator Coming soon... Christine Sas Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Standardisation (History of); Language, Power and Ideology; Multilingualism Academic, teaching and research 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 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 Dr Christina Anderson Daphne Jackson Senior Research Fellow Honorary staff Dr Nicholas Piercey Dr Gerdi Quist Professor Reinier Salverda Paul Vincent Emeriti Professor Jane Fenoulhet Professor Theo Hermans - Early Modern Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director (MA) Coming soon... Dr Matthew Symonds 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 Teaching staff Dr Robyn Adams Professor Haki Antonssen 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 Professor Zoltan Biedermann Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature Sergei Bogatyrev Wendy Bracewell Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski Mr Andrew Campbell The life and works of Paolo Antonio Foscarini (c. 1562–1616); Renaissance encyclopedism; the disputation booklet in early modern Italy; weather forecasting in southern Italy, 1560–1640. Stephen Conway 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
Paul Davis Diana Dethloff Bianca Facchini Emily Floyd 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 Hugh Goodacre Angus Gowland Francois Guesnet Helen Hackett Karen Hearn Rachel E. Holmes Julian Hoppit Ezra Horbury Chloe Ireton Ben Kaplan 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. Gerard Kilroy Jagjeet Lally 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 Dr Lisa Sampson Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing Professor Rose Marie San Juan Peter Schroeder Chris Stamatakis Judy Stephenson Allison Stielau 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 Brian Vickers René Weis Anne Welsh Simon Werrett Ian Williams Alison Wright Maria Wyke - European Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Dr Mart Kuldkepp Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I 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 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 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. 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.
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 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 - Film Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor Core staff Coming soon... Professor Stella Bruzzi 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 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 StudiesTeaching staff Dr Emily Baker 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. Dr Lucy Bollington 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 Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson 19th and 20th-century british visual culture, material and technical histories of art and film, colour media. Professor Jo Evans 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space. Professor Stephen Hart 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. Professor Susanne Kord Cultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th 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 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. Professor Claire Thomson Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema 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 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. 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 - French and Francophone Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of French Studies Coming soon... 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
Language coordinators Ms Marie Fournier Academic and teaching staff Mr James Agar Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema Ms 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 Patrick 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 Alice Dias-Mercier Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia Anais Griffiths Professor Azzedine Haddour Professor Mairéad Hanrahan Contemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction. 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. Dr Xiaofan Amy Li Professor Philippe Marlière Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism; French sociology (Pierre Bourdieu); France and the European Union.
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 Mathilde Murray Emeritus and Honorary Appointments Professor Celia Britton Professor Andrew Leak 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. Professor Michael Worton In Memoriam Dr Roland-François Lack: an obituary for a much missed colleague - Gender and Sexuality Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Professor Ann Varley Ageing; Family Law; Gender; Home; Household; Housing; Latin America; Marriage; Sexuality Core academic staff Dr Alex Hyde Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation Dr Thibaut Raboin Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer Dr Stefano Rossoni Teaching staff Mr James Agar Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema 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 Jo Cook Alison Diduck Charlotte Faircloth Mechthild Fend 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 Professor Mairéad Hanrahan Contemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction. Philippa Hetherington Tribute to Dr Philippa Hetherington (SSEES) Maki Kimura Caren Levy Vivienne Lo Simon Lock 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. 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 European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities Elaine Unterhalter Steven Vaughan Julian Walker - German Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of German Studies Coming soon... 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. 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 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. 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
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. Professor Mary Fulbrook 20th century German social and political history, the Third Reich and GDR, inter-disciplinary, transnational and comparative approaches. 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. 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). Professor Susanne Kord Cultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre). 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. Christina Parte Catherine Plant 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 Lektorinnen Dr Katharina Forster Ms Christina Weichselbaumer Honorary and Emeritus staff Professor Martin Swales - Health Humanities / Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director (Health Humanities) Coming soon... Professor Sonu Shamdasani Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry Professor James Wilson (Co-Programme Director) Programme Director (Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health) Dr Leah Sidi 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. Emeritus staff Professor Bill Bynum Professor Christopher Lawrence Professor Vivian Nutton Dr Andrew Wear - Italian Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Italian Studies Coming soon... 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 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 Dr Eleanor Chiari Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture Dr Selena Daly Italian Studies Dr Rebecca Falkoff Modern and contemporary Italian and comparative literature, psychoanalysis, new materialist and post-humanist thought, gender and sexuality, nitrogen capture in fascist Italy, collecting and hoarding, illegibility and asemic writing, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Primo Levi, Elena Ferrante. 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. Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri English and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fiction Professor Florian Mussgnug Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature Dr Marta Niccolai Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; race; political theatre 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 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 Postgraduate teaching assistants Ms Olga Campofreda Dr Stefano Rossoni Lettore / Lettrice Dr Valeria Benzi Emeritus Professors & Honorary Appointments Dr Stephen Bennetts Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox Dr Lesley Caldwell Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti 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
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... 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 Coming soon... Dr James Connolly (term 1 and 3) 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 Thibaut Raboin (term 2) Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer - Scandinavian Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Scandinavian Studies Coming soon... 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 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 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 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 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) Dr Erin Goeres Associate Professor Jesper Hansen Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Mart Kuldkepp Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I Annika Lindskog Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation Kate Marlow Old Norse and Old English literature, early medieval history, representations of ethnicity, the formation of group identity James Puchowski Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, ethnography, Norwegian Nynorsk, minority languages, language activism 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 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 Coming soon... Professor Stephen M. Hart Language coordinators (Spanish) Dr Marga Navarrete Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation Dr Mazal Oaknin Language coordinator (Portuguese) 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 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 Dr Lucy Bollington 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 Professor Jo Evans 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space. Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime Dr Niall Geraghty Professor Stephen Hart 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. 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. 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. Ms Daniela Mittelstadt Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco Indigenism; Literary Influence; Literature of Ideas; Poetics; Political Philosophy; Spanish American Independence; 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Spanish American essay writers.
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. 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 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 Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies; 19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion history Dr Gianfranco Selgas Environmental and energy humanities, cultural studies, and the relationship between culture and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Late-19th, 20th, and 21st century Latin American and Caribbean cultural production and politics engaging with exctractivism to studies on critical theory and material culture with a world-ecological perspective. Dr Gareth Wood 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation. Emeritus Professors & Honorary Research Associates Professor Edward Chaney Maria Darnley Professor Evelyn Fishburn Dr Robert Goodwin Professor Alberto Moreiras Dr Breixo Viejo - Translation Studies (CenTraS)
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) &
Programme Director (PhD)Coming soon... 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 Programme Director (MA) Dr Olivia Cockburn Programme Director (MSc) Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano Academic staff Dr Rocío Baños Piñero 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 Professor 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 Federico M. Federici Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises Dr Claire Shih Translation and Interpreting Studies; Translation Process Research; Web Search in Translation Dr Xiaochun Zhang English > Chinese Translation; Game localisation, Game Accessibility, Fan Audiovisual Translation, Translation Technology, Practical Translation English to Chinese Teaching staff Dr Mariam Aboelezz Arabic translation; Bilingualism; Language politics; Language ideologies; Language and identity; Diglossia; Literary translation; Translation and decolonisation; Translation in heritage and cultural sectors. Dr Bettina Bajaj Language and Automation Ms Maria José Anjos English > Portuguese Subtitling Ms Jacqueline Ball German > English 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 Ms Deborah Chan English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Dr Olivia Cockburn Spanish > English Ms Angela Dickson French > English Mrs Daniela Ford Translation Technology, Machine Translation, English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Kristin Gerdes English > German Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Ms Ramona Gonczol English > Romanian
Ms Helle Gulowsen English > Norwegian Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Mihye Harker English > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Jessica Hinds-Mingo Spanish > English Ms Yuki Kawaguchi English > Japanese Medical Translation Ms Thaïs Kitahara English > Brazilian Portuguese Subtitling Dr Juan Lalaguna English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation & History of Translation Dr Tzu-yu Lin English > Chinese Translation Ms Anna Lucca English > Italian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Dr Eleni Markou English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Veronica Miller English<>Russian Interpreting, Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover and Dubbing, Culture, History and Economics Ms 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 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 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 Ms Monika Rusinska English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation Mr Yousaf Shak Lecturer (Teaching) in Audio Description Ms Yoshiko Shimizu English > Japanese Scientific & Technical Translation; Dubbing; Interpreting; Japanese; Subtitling; Translation (Crisis Translation); Translation (Legal Translation); Voiceover Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter Language and Translation Mr David Stockings German > English Dr Sam Strong French > English and Localisation Dr Caiwen Wang English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics Mr Shak Yousaf Dr Soledad Zárate Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling Dr Xiaochun Zhang English > Chinese Translation Honorary appointments Professor Frederic Chaume Dr Serenella Massidda Dr Kristijan Nikolic CAT Tools; Culture Specific Items; Interlingual Subtitling; Literary Translation; Technology; Subtitling Profession Professor Irene Ranzato Noelia Marques-Cobeta Emeritus Professor Professor Theo Hermans - Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Professor Paul Gilroy Admissions Tutor Dr Luke de Noronha Teaching staff Dr Paige Patchin Research Students
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