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Role Name Head of Department & Chair of CMII Professor Claire Thomson Director of Teaching and Deputy Head of Department Professor Seb Coxon Research Director and REF Lead Dr Jennifer Rushworth Department Manager Rachel Anderson Teaching and Learning Manager Robert Bodden Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) / Athena Swan / Disability Lead Dr Alejandro Bolanos-Garcia-Escribano
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Dr Leah SidiStudent Advisor Nosheen Aslam - Programme Directors
Role Name Director of Comparative Literature (BA) Dr Emily Baker Director of Comparative Literature (MA/PhD) Dr Xiaofan Amy Li Director of Creative Critical Writing and Creative Critical Inquiry (Practice-Related) (PhD) Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi Director of Documentary-track (PhD) Professor Stephen Hart Director of Dutch Studies Dr Hans Demeyer Director of Early Modern Studies (MA) Dr Matthew Symonds Director of Early Modern Studies (PhD) Professor Alexander Samson Director of European Studies (MA/PhD) Dr Tessa Hauswedell Director of ELCS modules Annika Lindskog Director of Film Studies (MA/PhD) Dr Tom Cunliffe Director of French and Francophone Studies James Agar Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies (MA/PhD) Dr Alex Hyde and Dr Stefano Rossoni Director of German Studies Dr Reinier van Straten Director of Health Humanities (MA/PhD) Professor Sonu Shamdasani Director of Italian Studies Dr Cristina Massaccesi Director of joint degree with Venice Ca'Foscari Professor Catherine Keen Director of Language & Culture (BA) Dr Eleanor Chiari Director of Language, Culture & History (MA) Dr Thibaut Raboin Director of Language Pathways (PhD) Professor Sonu Shamdasani Director of Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health (MA) Dr Leah Sidi Director of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (PhD) Professor Paul Gilroy Director of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (MA) Dr Luke de Noronha Director of Scandinavian Studies Dr Elettra Carbone Director of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Professor Alexander Samson Director of Translation Studies (PhD) and CenTras Professor Federico Federici Director of Translation Studies (MA) Dr Tzu-yu Lin Director of Translation & Technology (MSc) Daniela Ford - School Tutors
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Name Associated programme(s) A Mr James Agar French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Ms Marina Alessandro Italian Studies Dr Akkad Alhussein Translation 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 Ms Ruth Austin French Studies B Dr Benjamin Bâcle 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 Professor 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 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 Patrick Bray Comparative Literature, French Studies Miss Fiona Brewer Translation Studies Professor Celia Britton French Studies Professor Geraldine Brodie Comparative Literature, Translation Studies Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox Italian 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 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 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 Dr Juliana Demartini Brito Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Hans Demeyer Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies Dr Jean-Baptiste de Vaulx Film Studies Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas Translation Studies Professor John Dickie Italian Studies Professor Alison Diduck Laws Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson Film Studies E Professor Jo Evans Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies F Ms Valentina Faelli Translation Studies Professor Federico M. Federici Translation Studies Professor Jane Fenoulhet Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Mrs Daniela Ford Translation Studies Dr Katharina Forster German Studies Ms Marie Fournier French Studies Professor Mary Fulbrook German Studies G 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 Robert Goodwin Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Blanca Gomez Garcia Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Lee Grieveson Film Studies Ms Anais Griffiths French Studies Dr Anne Grydehøj Scandinavian Studies Ms Helle Gulowsen Translation Studies H Professor Azzedine Haddour Comparative Literature, French Studies Professor Mairéad Hanrahan French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dr Mihye Harker Translation Studies Professor Stephen M. Hart Comparative Literature, Documentary-track PhD, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Tessa Hauswedell Dutch Studies, European Studies Professor Theo Hermans Dutch Studies, Translation Studies Professor Mark Hewitson German Studies, European Studies Ms Jessica Hinds-Mingo Translation Studies Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir Scandinavian Studies Dr Geraldine Horan German Studies Dr Alex Hyde Gender and Sexuality Studies I Dr Kevin Inston European Studies, French Studies J Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Emma Jones IOE K Ms Yuki Kawaguchi Translation Studies Professor Catherine Keen Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Italian 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 Dr Mart Kuldkepp European Studies, Scandinavian Studies L Professor Christopher Lawrence Health Humanities Professor Andrew Leak French Studies Dr Phil Leask German Studies Dr Christina Lee Health Humanities 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 Dr Simon Lock Science and Technology Studies Professor Robert Lumley Italian Studies M Dr Eleni Markou Translation Studies Professor Philippe Marlière French Studies Professor Deborah Martin Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Lo Marshall Department of Geography 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 Ms Aoi Matsushima Translation Studies Professor Thibaut Maus De Rolley Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies Ms Irene Mazza Italian Studies Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Ms Veronica Miller Translation Studies Professor Bob Mills Department of Art History Ms Renata Mliczak Translation Studies Ms Daniela Mittelstadt Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Richard Mole SSEES Dr Vicent Montalt Translation Studies Professor Alberto Moreiras Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Florian Mussgnug Comparative Literature, Italian Studies N Dr Marga Navarrete Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi Comparative Literature; Creative Critical Writing; Creative Critical Inquiry (Practice-Related) 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 Professor Vivian Nutton Health Humanities O Dr Mazal Oaknin Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies P Professor Enrico Palandri Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Dr Christina Parte German Studies Dr Dagmar Paulus German 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 Dr Joana Rita Ramalho Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Dr Cécile Renaud French Studies, Translation Studies Dr Lucia Rinaldi Film Studies, Italian Studies Dr Annie Ring Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies Professor Rachel Rosen IOE Dr Stefano Rossoni Gender and Sexuality Studies, Italian Studies Ms Karine Roumetz French Studies Dr Jennifer Rushworth Comparative Literature, French 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 Ms Christine Sas Dutch Studies Dr Gianfranco Selgas Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Sonu Shamdasani German Studies, Health Humanities Dr Prue Shaw Italian Studies Dr Claire Shih Translation Studies Dr Victoria Showunmi IOE Dr Beatrice Sica Comparative Literature, Italian Studies Dr Leah Sidi Health Humanities Dr Macs Smith French and Francophone Studies Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter Translation Studies Dr Alicia Spencer-Hall Honorary Senior Research Fellow Mr David Stockings Translation Studies Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies Dr Ana Cláudia 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 Dr Georgia Thomas-Parr Film Studies Ms Sigrid Thomsen German Studies Professor Claire Thomson Film Studies, Scandinavian Studies Dr Torsten Thomsen Scandinavian Studies Professor Ulrich Tiedau Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor John Took Italian Studies Dr Diana Beatrix Tyson U V Dr Reinier van Straten European Studies, German Studies W Professor Julian Walker Development Planning Unit Dr Caiwen Wang Translation Studies Dr Gareth Wood Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Professor Michael Worton French Studies X Y Dr Xine Yao English Department Mr Shak Yousaf Translation Studies Z Dr Soledad Zárate Translation Studies Dr Xiaochun Zhang Translation Studies
By programme:
- Comparative Literature
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director (BA) Coming soon... Dr Emily Baker Programme Director (MA / PhD) Academic and teaching staff Dr Emily Baker Dr Lucy Bollington Dr Hans Demeyer Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction Dr Sonia Gollance Professor Stephen M. Hart 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. Dr Jann Matlock Professor Florian Mussgnug Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi 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 Stefano Rossoni Dr Jennifer Rushworth 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 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. 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 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. Dr Tzu-yu Lin English > Chinese Translation Professor 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 Dr Marta Niccolai Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; race; political theatre 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 CláudiaSuriani 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 Rachel Bowlby Professor Jo Evans 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space. 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. Professor Enrico Palandri Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics - Creative Critical Writing / Creative Critical Inquiry (Practice-Related) PhD
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi Comparative and transnational literature - 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 Coming soon... Dr Hans Demeyer Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction Academic, teaching and research staff Dr Tessa Hauswedell Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity 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 Language coordinator Ms Christine Sas Applied linguistics and educational linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation and interpretation studies, Language, communication and culture, Language studies Honorary staff Dr Nicholas Piercey Dr Gerdi Quist Professor Reinier Salverda 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 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 Professor Zoltan Biedermann Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature 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. 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 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 Julian Hoppit 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. Professor 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 Lisa Sampson Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing 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 Anne Welsh Honorary Gerard Kilroy - European Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... 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 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 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 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 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 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 Professor Mart Kuldkepp Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I Dr Reinier van Straten Professor Ulrich Tiedau European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities - Film Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor Programme Director Coming soon... Dr Tom Cunliffe Chinese-language cinemas (especially on Hong Kong film history, Taiwan cinema, contemporary Hong Kong-Mainland co-productions, independent Chinese cinema)
Hong Kong Studies; Political Cinema; Classical Hollywood; Film History; The Cold War; Film Censorship; Asian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Transnational Studies; Melodrama Film; Festival Studies.Core staff 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
Teaching 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 Jean-Baptiste de Vaulx Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Film and Media Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson 19th and 20th-century british visual culture, material and technical histories of art and film, colour media. Professor Stephen Hart 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary. 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 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 Dr Georgia Thomas-Parr Feminism and Gender; Youth, Girlhood and Coming-of-Age; Cosplay, Anime Fandom and Subcultures relating to Japanese Popular Culture and Media (esp. Maid Cafés); Audiovisual Essay-Making; Sociology and Cultural Anthropology; Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking; Decolonisation and Depatriarchalisation; Global and Transnational Cinema. Emeritus professors Professor Jo Evans 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space. - French and Francophone Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of French Studies Coming soon... Mr James Agar Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema
Language coordinators Ms Marie Fournier Academic and teaching staff 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 Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia 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 Ms 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 Ms Karine Roumetz Dr Jennifer Rushworth Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory Dr Macs Smith Contemporary French Theatre; Urban Literature and Art; Paris; French Film; Theory, with particular interests in Media Theory, Hospitality, Ecology, Biopolitics French Lecteurs/Lectrices Emeritus and Honorary Appointments 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. Dr Alicia Spencer-Hall Honorary Senior Research Fellow Dr Diana Beatrix Tyson 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... Dr Alex Hyde Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation Dr Stefano Rossoni Core academic staff Dr Thibaut Raboin Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer Dr Juliana Demartini Brito Teaching staff Mr James Agar Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema Professor Judith Beniston Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History Dr Hans Demeyer Professor Alison Diduck 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. Dr Emma Jones Dr Simon Lock Dr Lo Marshall 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. Professor Bob Mills Professor Richard Mole 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 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 Dr Jordana Ramalho Professor Rachel Rosen Dr Victoria Showunmi Dr Leah Sidi Dr Xine Yao Postgraduate Teaching Assistants Luisa Boada Bayona Arthur Davis Ella Rossman Emeritus Staff Professor Ann Varley Professor Jane Fenoulhet In Memoriam Philippa Hetherington Tribute to Dr Philippa Hetherington (SSEES) - German Studies
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 Professor Judith Beniston Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History 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 Jeff Bowersox Colonialism; Migration; Modern German history, German colonial culture and practice; the history of nationalism; the history of youth; the black diaspora in the German-speaking lands; American-German entanglements; race and popular culture; and cultural approaches to the history of the Kaiserreich. 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). Dr Martin Liebscher 19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature. Dr Christina Parte Dr 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 Ms Sigrid Thomsen Lektorinnen Dr Katharina Forster Honorary and Emeritus staff Dr Phil Leask 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 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 and Honorary appointments Professor Bill Bynum Professor Christopher Lawrence Dr Christina Lee Professor Vivian Nutton Dr Andrew Wear - Italian Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Italian Studies Coming soon... Dr Cristina Massaccesi Film Studies, Sequential Art, Animation Cinema, Italian Cinema, Film Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Japanese Anime and Manga, Translation Studies, Contemporary Fiction and Fanfiction Language coordinator Dr Lucia Rinaldi Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema Academic and teaching staff Dr Marina Alessandro Italian Language, Translation Studies, Language Teaching and Acquisition, Sociolinguistics Dr Eleanor Chiari Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture Dr Selena Daly History of Italian emigration; migration history; history of Italian migration to the UK; Italy in the First World War; the difficult heritage of the art and architecture of Fascist Italy; memories of Fascism; Futurism and the European avant-gardes 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 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 Irene Mazza 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 Lucia Rinaldi Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema Dr Stefano Rossoni 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 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 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 Tiziana Provvidera 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 Thibaut Raboin Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer Teaching staff Dr James Connolly World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II - Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Programme Director Coming soon... Dr Luke de Noronha Teaching staff - Scandinavian Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Scandinavian Studies Coming soon... 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) 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 Erin Goeres Associate Professor Professor Mart Kuldkepp Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I Ms Annika Lindskog Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation Dr 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 Emeritus Professors & Honorary Appointments Dr Torsten Thomsen Comparative Literature, Danish Romanticism, Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tale Studies, World Literature - Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Coming soon... 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 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 Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime Dr Niall Geraghty Dr Blanca Gomez Garcia 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 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 Dr Ana Cláudia 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 Jo Evans 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space. Professor Evelyn Fishburn Dr Robert Goodwin Professor Alberto Moreiras - Translation Studies (CenTraS)
Name Research interests PhD supervisor? Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) &
Programme Director (PhD)Coming soon... Professor Federico M. Federici Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises Programme Director (MA) Dr Tzu-yu Lin English>Chinese Translation; Comparative Cultural/Literary Studies; Postcolonial Translation; Multilingualism and Translation; Medical Humanities and Translation Programme Director (MSc) Mrs Daniela Ford Academic staff Dr Rocío Baños Piñero 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 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 Professor Geraldine Brodie Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song 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 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 Ms Maria José Anjos English > Portuguese Subtitling Ms Jacqueline Ball German > English Dr Bettina Bajaj Language and Automation Miss Fiona Brewer French > English Ms Deborah Chan English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing Dr Olivia Cockburn Spanish > English Ms Angela Dickson French > English Ms Valentina Faelli English > Italian 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 Tzu-yu Lin English > Chinese Translation Dr Eleni Markou English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation Ms Aoi Matsushima English > Japanese 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 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 Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter Language and Translation Mr David Stockings German > English Dr Caiwen Wang English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics Mr Shak Yousaf Lecturer (Teaching) in Audia Description Dr Soledad Zárate Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling Honorary appointments Dr Akkad Alhussein 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
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