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Academic & Teaching Staff

Alphabetically

Name	Associated programme(s)	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
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Ms Synnøve Aasen	Translation Studies	English > Norwegian Medical Translation
Robyn Adams	Early Modern Studies
James Agar	French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies	Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema
Ms Maria José Anjos	Translation Studies	English > Portuguese Subtitling
Haki Antonsson	Early Modern Studies, European Studies, Scandinavian Studies	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
Dr Seth Anziska	Comparative Literature
Ruth Austin	French Studies	Cocteau; Dystopias/Utopias; Vichy France; World War I; World War II Occupation France
B
Dr Benjamin Bâcle	French Studies	British and French Romanticism; French Eclecticism; French Personalism; French Revolution; French Political Thought Since 1789; Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism/Anti-Utilitarianism
Dr Bettina Bajaj	Translation Studies	Language and Automation
Dr Emily Baker	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Felicity Baker	French Studies
Dr Rocío Baños Piñero	Translation Studies
Professor Kathryn Batchelor	Translation Studies	Africa-China Relations; Francophone literature (African, Caribbean, North African); Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial Studies; Translation (Literary Translation - French and German if a Practical Element is Involved); Translation History; Translation Theory
Dr Tim Beasley-Murray	Comparative Literature, Creative Critical Writing PhD
Mara Benetti	Translation Studies	English > Italian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Dr Judith Beniston	Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History
Dr Stephen Bennetts	Italian Studies
Ms Ingrid Berglund	Translation Studies	English > Swedish Voiceover & Dubbing
Professor Zoltan Biedermann	Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature
Professor Stephanie Bird	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies
Dr Uillieam Blacker	Comparative Literature
Dr María del Pilar Blanco	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Sergei Bogatyrev	Early Modern Studies
Mr Alejandro Bolanos García-Escribano	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies	English > Spanish Subtitling; Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics
Dr Lucy Bollington	Comparative Literature, Film Studies
Dr Jeff Bowersox	German Studies	Colonialism; Culture; Europe; Germany; History; Migration; Nation; Race
Professor Rachel Bowlby	Comparative Literature
Wendy Bracewell	Early Modern Studies
Dr Patrick Bray	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Professor Celia Britton	French Studies
Dr Geraldine Brodie	Comparative Literature, Translation Studies	Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song
Professor Stella Bruzzi	Film Studies
Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox	Italian Studies
Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski	Early Modern Studies
Professor W. F. Bynum	Health Humanities
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Dr Lesley Caldwell	Italian Studies
Jelena Calic	Scandinavian Studies
Andrew Campbell	Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies
Olga Campofreda	Italian Studies
Dr Elettra Carbone	Scandinavian Studies	Nordic Literature; Travel Literature; Mobility Studies; Museum Studies; North/South of Europe; Representations of National Identities in Literature (Imagology); Remediation of Visual Arts in Literature; Translation (Between Scandinavian Languages and Italian or English)
Ms Elsa Castro	Translation Studies	English > Portuguese Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Ms Deborah Chan	Translation Studies	English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Professor Edward Chaney	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Frederic Chaume	Translation Studies
Dr Eleanor Chiari	Italian Studies, Language & Culture BA	Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture
Dr James Connolly	European Studies, French Studies, Language Culture & History MA	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II
Stephen Conway	Early Modern Studies
Jo Cook	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Seb Coxon	Early Modern Studies, German Studies	Beards, Hair and Baldness; Comedy; Cultures of Laughter; Heroic Epic; Medieval Literature; Picaresque Novel
Dr Joyce Crick	German Studies
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Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Maria Darnley	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Mererid Puw Davies	German Studies
Paul Davis	Early Modern Studies
Dr Christophe Declercq	Translation Studies	British Area Studies (1789-1945); Localisation; Socio-Cultural Transnational History (1900-1945); Translation (Post-Editing Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation)
Dr Hans Demeyer	Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies	Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Sandra Deichsel	German Studies
Dr Francesca Denegri	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Louisa Desilla	Translation Studies	English > Greek Subtitling
Diana Dethloff	Early Modern Studies
Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas	Translation Studies	Audio Description; Dubbing; Subtitling; Translation Technology; Translation Theory; Voiceover; Access to the Media; Fan Dubbing; Fan Subbing; Practical Translation English Into Spanish
Professor John Dickie	Italian Studies	Banditry and Brigandage; Freemasonry and Fraternalism; Italian Food; Italian History Since Unification; Italian Literature 1860-1925; Italian Opera in the 19th Century; Mafia; Nationalism and National Identity in Italy; Natural Disasters; Organised Crime; Southern Italy
Alison Diduck	Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Professor Jo Evans	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
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Bianca Facchini	Early Modern Studies
Charlotte Faircloth	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Ernst Falzeder	Health Humanities
Professor Federico M. Federici	Translation Studies	Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises
Mechthild Fend	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Jane Fenoulhet	Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies
Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti	Italian Studies	Ancient Greek (some); Antisemitism; English (fluent); French (fluent); German (basic); Hebrew (basic); Italian (mother tongue); Latin; Marriage/Divorce; Minorities; Modern Italian History; Modern Jewish History; Nationalism; Race
Professor Evelyn Fishburn	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Diego de Jesús Flores-Jaime	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Emily Floyd	Early Modern Studies
Ms Daniela Ford	Translation Studies	Translation Technology, English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Katharina Forster	German Studies
Dr Kate Foster	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies	Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture
Marie Fournier	French Studies
Mary Frank	German Studies
Dr Louise Fryer	Translation Studies	Accessibility; Audio Description; Blindness; Cognition; Genre; Media Accessibility; Medium; Translation; Universal Design; Live Events; Screen
Professor Mary Fulbrook	German Studies
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Ms Marta Gabrych	Translation Studies	English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation
Professor Angel María García Gómez	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Barbara Garvin	Italian Studies
Dr Niall Geraghty	Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Kristin Gerdes	Translation Studies	English > German Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Dr Jane Gilbert	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
Dr Erin Goeres	Scandinavian Studies
Hugh Goodacre	Early Modern Studies
Dr Robert Goodwin	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Angus Gowland	Early Modern Studies
Professor Lee Grieveson	Film Studies	Censorship; Culture (Liberal and Neo-Liberal Cultures); Data-Mining; Documentary; Imperialism; Media and Political Economy; Media History; Media Industries; Militant/Radical Media; Surveillance Capitalism; Early Cinema; Media and Imperialism; US Cinema/Media History; Political Media
Anais Griffiths	French Studies
Dr Anne Grydehøj	Scandinavian Studies	Modern and Contemporary Scandinavian Literature, Crime Fiction, Scandinavian Languages, Sociolinguistics, Minority Languages and Literatures
Francois Guesnet	Early Modern Studies
Ms Helle Gulowsen	Translation Studies	English > Norwegian Scientific & Technical Translation
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Helen Hackett	Early Modern Studies
Professor Azzedine Haddour	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Professor Mairéad Hanrahan	French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Jesper Hansen	Scandinavian Studies
Dr Mihye Harker	Translation Studies	English > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Professor Stephen M. Hart	Comparative Literature, Documentary-track PhD, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mr Luay Hasan	Translation Studies	English > Arabic Medical Translation
Dr Tessa Hauswedell	Dutch Studies, European Studies	Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity
Karen Hearn	Early Modern Studies
Professor Theo Hermans	Dutch Studies, Translation Studies
Philippa Hetherington	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Mark Hewitson	German Studies	European Integration; German History; Globalisation; Historical Theory; Nationalism; World War I
Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir	Scandinavian Studies	Cinematic Representations of Race/Class/Gender/Sexual Orientations; Culture (Nordic Culture); Culture (Popular Culture); Film (Hollywood Cinema); Film (Nordic Film); Folk Narratives and Fairy Tales; Nordic Literature; Post-Colonialism; Superheroes
Rachel E. Holmes	Early Modern Studies
Julian Hoppit	Early Modern Studies
Dr Geraldine Horan	German Studies	Sociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics
Ezra Horbury	Early Modern Studies
Dr Alex Hyde	Gender and Sexuality Studies	Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation
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Kevin Inston	European Studies, French Studies	Community; Democracy; Equality; Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Nancy; Rancière; Rousseau
Chloe Ireton	Early Modern Studies
J
Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Biographical Studies; Comparative Literature; European Modernism; Linguistics in Foreign Languages Teaching; Literature of Exile and Counter-Exile; Teaching Foreign Languages; Twentieth-Century Spanish/Spanish American Literature and Culture
K
Professor Ben Kaplan	Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies
Ms Yuki Kawaguchi	Translation Studies	English > Japanese Medical Translation
Dr Catherine Keen	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies
Gerard Kilroy	Early Modern Studies
Maki Kimura	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Mr Haydn Kirnon	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies	Spanish > English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation & Subtitling
Ms Thaïs Kitahara	Translation Studies	English > Brazilian Portuguese Subtitling
Brian Klaas	European Studies	Democracy; African Politics; American Politics; Authoritarian Populism; Authoritarianism; Civil Wars; Côte d'Ivoire; Coups d'Etat; Democracy Promotion; Democratisation; Dictatorship; Disinformation; Donald Trump; Election Rigging; Elections; International Diplomacy; Madagascar; US Foreign Policy; Political Violence; Political Campaigns; Thailand; Tunisia
Professor Dilwyn Knox	Italian Studies
Professor Susanne Kord	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies	Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre)
Dr Mart Kuldkepp	European Studies, Scandinavian Studies	Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I
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Dr Roland Francois Lack	Film Studies, French Studies
Dr Juan Lalaguna	Translation Studies	English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation & History of Translation
Jagjeet Lally	Early Modern Studies
Professor Annette Lavers	French Studies
Professor Christopher Lawrence	Health Humanities
Professor Andrew Leak	French Studies
Professor Miriam Leonard	Comparative Literature
Professor Giulio Lepschy	Italian Studies
Professor Laura Lepschy	Italian Studies
Caren Levy	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Xiaofan Amy Li	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Dr Martin Liebscher	German Studies, Health Humanities
Dr Tzu-yu Lin	Translation Studies	Comparative Postcolonial Studies; Taiwanese Literature and Memory Studies; Translation (Literary Translation); Translation (Postcolonial Translation); World Literature
Professor Claire Lindsay	Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Annika Lindskog	Scandinavian Studies	Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation
Vivienne Lo	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Simon Lock	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Robert Lumley	Italian Studies
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Professor Kevin MacDonald	African Studies
William MacLehose	Early Modern Studies
Gesine Manuwald	Early Modern Studies
Dr Eleni Markou	Translation Studies	English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Professor Philippe Marlière	French Studies	Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism
Dr Deborah Martin	Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Cristina Massaccesi	Film Studies, Italian Studies	Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Dr Serenella Massidda	Translation Studies	English > Italian Voiceover & Dubbing
Dr Jann Matlock	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, French Studies
Professor Tim Mathews	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies	Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia
Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies
Ms Veronica Miller	Translation Studies	English > Russian Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Robert Mills	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Sarah Milne	Early Modern Studies
Professor Zoran Milutinović	Comparative Literature
Ms Renata Mliczak	Translation Studies	English > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Richard Mole	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Vicent Montalt	Translation Studies	English > Spanish Medical Translation
Rosemary Moore	Early Modern Studies
Ms Danielle Mordini	Translation Studies	English > Brazilian Portuguese Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Voiceover & Dubbing
Professor Alberto Moreiras	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Rachel Morley	Film Studies
Victoria Moul	Early Modern Studies
Professor Florian Mussgnug	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies	Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature
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Ms Marga Navarrete	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies	English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation; Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation
Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach	African Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families
Dr Marta Niccolai	Italian Studies	Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; Multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; Race; Political theatre
Dr Kristijan Nikolic	Translation Studies	CAT Tools; Culture Specific Items; Interlingual Subtitling; Literary Translation; Technology; Subtitling Profession
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Indigenism; Literary Influence; Literature of Ideas; Poetics; Political Philosophy; Spanish American Independence
Professor Vivian Nutton	Health Humanities
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Dr Sharon O'Brien	Translation Studies
Dr Mazal Oaknin	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
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Professor Enrico Palandri	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies	Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics
Jenny Parkes	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Christina Parte	German Studies
Kamna Patel	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki	Translation Studies	Translation Technology, Language & Automation, Scientific & Technical Translation; Access Services; Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Audio Description; Corpora; Greek; Localisation; SDH; Subtitling; Translation (Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation); Translation Technology
Dr Dagmar Paulus	German Studies	German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Jason Peacey	Early Modern Studies
Dr Adrian Pearce	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mrs Ania Plank	Translation Studies	English > Polish Medical Translation
Mrs Anna Ponomareva	Translation Studies	English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation; History of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian Formalism
Dr Tiziana Provvidera	Italian Studies
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Dr Gerdi Quist	Dutch Studies
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Dr Thibaut Raboin	French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies	Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer
Martyn Rady	Early Modern Studies
Dr Joana Rita Ramalho	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness
Dr Cécile Renaud	French Studies, Translation Studies	English > French Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Jane Rendell	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Graham Richards	Health Humanities
Dr Lucia Rinaldi	Film Studies, Italian Studies	Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Dr Annie Ring	Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies	Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies
Jessica Ringrose	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Charlotte Roberts	Early Modern Studies
Rachel Rosen	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Stefano Rossoni	Gender and Sexuality Studies, Italian Studies
Karine Roumetz	French Studies
Dr Jennifer Rushworth	Comparative Literature, French Studies	Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory
Ms Monika Rusinska	Translation Studies	English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation
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Professor Reinier Salverda	Dutch Studies
Professor Vieri Samek-Lodovici	Italian Studies	Dialect (Grammar, History, etc); Grammar (of a Language or Theory of grammar); Information Structure (Focus, Topichood, Givenness); Phonology (of a Language or Interesting Phonological Phenomenon); Syntax (of a Language or Interesting Syntactic Phenomenon); Language Acquisition (Study of How Language is Acquired by Children); Language Grammar (Syntax and/or Prosody of a Language or Dialect); Linguistics (Study of a Specific Theory in Linguistics or Grammatical Aspect of a Language; Prosody/Intonation (of a Language or Interesting Prosodic Phenomenon)
Lisa Sampson	Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies	Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing
Dr Alexander Samson	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction
Rose Marie San Juan	Early Modern Studies
Christine Sas	Dutch Studies	Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Standardisation (History of); Language, Power and Ideology; Multilingualism
Peter Schroeder	Early Modern Studies
Sofia Sciardo	Italian Studies
Professor Sonu Shamdasani	German Studies, Health Humanities	Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry
Dr Prue Shaw	Italian Studies
Dr Claire Shih	Translation Studies
Ms Yoshiko Shimizu	Translation Studies	English > Japanese Scientific & Technical Translation; Dubbing; Interpreting; Japanese; Subtitling; Translation (Crisis Translation); Translation (Legal Translation); Voiceover
Victoria Showunmi	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Beatrice Sica	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies	Comparative Literature, Italian-French; Italian Cultural History and Visual Studies; Italian Fascism; Italian Futurism, French Surrealism and European Avant-Gardes; Italian Literature and Cultural Studies; Magical Realism and Fantastic Literature
Dr Leah Sidi	Health Humanities
Ms Fiona Soliman	Translation Studies	Spanish>English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter	Translation Studies	Language and Translation
Chris Stamatakis	Early Modern Studies
Professor Peter Standish	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Judy Stephenson	Early Modern Studies
Allison Stielau	Early Modern Studies
Professor Melvyn Stokes	Film Studies
Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen	Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies
Mr Sam Strong	Translation Studies	Localisation
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Book History; Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies
Professor Martin Swales	German Studies
Dr Matthew Symonds	Early Modern Studies
Dr Agnieszka Szarkowska	Translation Studies
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Dr Claire Thomson	Film Studies, Scandinavian Studies	Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema
Ulrich Tiedau	Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor John Took	Italian Studies
Dr Diana Tyson	French Studies
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Elaine Unterhalter	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Reinier van Straten	European Studies, German Studies
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Professor Ann Varley	Gender and Sexuality Studies	Ageing; Family Law; Gender; Home; Household; Housing; Latin America; Marriage; Sexuality
Professor Phiroze Vasunia	Comparative Literature
Professor Megan Vaughan	Health Humanities
Steven Vaughan	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Brian Vickers	Early Modern Studies
Dr Breixo Viejo	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Paul Vincent	Dutch Studies
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Dr Keith Wagner	Film Studies	Adaptation and Genre Theory; Animation and Subculture; Cosmopolitanism Digital Culture; Film and Culture (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone); Global South and North Media Systems; Globalisation and Regionalisation; Neoliberalism and Financialisation; Precarity; Theories of Global Cinema/Global Literature; Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone Film and Culture
Julian Walker	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Caiwen Wang	Translation Studies	English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics
Dr Andrew Wear	Health Humanities
Christina Weichselbaumer	German Studies
René Weis	Early Modern Studies
Anne Welsh	Early Modern Studies
Simon Werrett	Early Modern Studies
Dr Geoff Williams	Translation Studies	German > English Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Ian Williams	Early Modern Studies
Prof.James Wilson	Health Humanities
Professor Jason Wilson	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Gareth Wood	Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Michael Worton	French Studies
Alison Wright	Early Modern Studies
Maria Wyke	Early Modern Studies
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Y
Z
Dr Soledad Zárate	Translation Studies	Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling
Dr Peter Zusi	Comparative Literature

 

By programme:

African Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families

This programme is currently not running

Comparative Literature

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director (BA)	Dr Jennifer Rushworth	Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory	Coming soon...
Programme Director (MA)	Professor Stephen M. Hart
Academic staff	Dr Emily Baker
	Dr Tim Beasley-Murray
	Dr Lucy Bollington
	Professor Rachel Bowlby
	Dr Hans Demeyer	Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction
	Dr Kate Foster	Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture
	Dr Xiaofan Amy Li
	Dr Jann Matlock
	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
	Professor Phiroze Vasunia
	Dr Peter Zusi
Associated staff	Dr Seth Anziska
	Dr Judith Beniston	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History
	Professor Stephanie Bird
	Dr Uillieam Blacker
	Dr Patrick Bray
	Dr Geraldine Brodie	Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song
	Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio
	Professor Jo Evans
	Dr Niall Geraghty
	Dr Jane Gilbert	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
	Professor Azzedine Haddour
	Dr Catherine Keen
	Professor Susanne Kord	Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre)
	Professor Miriam Leonard
	Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley	Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia
	Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri
	Professor Zoran Milutinović
	Professor Enrico Palandri	Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics
	Dr Alexander Samson	Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction
	Dr Beatrice Sica	Comparative Literature, Italian-French; Italian Cultural History and Visual Studies; Italian Fascism; Italian Futurism, French Surrealism and European Avant-Gardes; Italian Literature and Cultural Studies; Magical Realism and Fantastic Literature
	Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Book History; Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies
	Dr Gareth Wood Dr Uta Staiger
Emeritus professors	Professor Jane Fenoulhet
	Professor Tim Mathews

 

Creative Critical Writing PhD

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Dr Tim Beasley-Murray		Coming soon...
Founding Director	Professor Tim Mathews

 

Documentary Track PhD

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Professor Stephen Hart		Coming soon...

 

Dutch Studies / Low Countries Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Dutch Studies / Language Coordinator	Christine Sas	Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Standardisation (History of); Language, Power and Ideology; Multilingualism
Low Countries Studies Centre Director	Professor Jane Fenoulhet
Low Countries History seminar series	Professor Ben Kaplan
Academic and teaching staff	Dr Hans Demeyer	Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction
	Dr Tessa Hauswedell	Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity
	Ulrich Tiedau
Honorary staff	Dr Nicholas Piercey
	Dr Gerdi Quist
	Professor Reinier Salverda
	Paul Vincent
Emeriti	Professor Jane Fenoulhet
	Professor Theo Hermans

 

Early Modern Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director (PGT)	Dr Matthew Symonds		Coming soon...
Programme Director (PGR)	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	Robyn Adams
	Haki Antonsson	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
	Zoltan Biedermann	Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature
	Sergei Bogatyrev
	Wendy Bracewell
	Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski
	Andrew Campbell
	Stephen Conway
	Seb Coxon	Beards, Hair and Baldness; Comedy; Cultures of Laughter; Heroic Epic; Medieval Literature; Picaresque Novel
	Paul Davis
	Diana Dethloff
	Bianca Facchini
	Emily Floyd
	Jane Gilbert	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
	Hugh Goodacre
	Angus Gowland
	Francois Guesnet
	Helen Hackett
	Karen Hearn
	Rachel E. Holmes
	Julian Hoppit
	Ezra Horbury
	Chloe Ireton
	Ben Kaplan
	Catherine Keen
	Gerard Kilroy
	Jagjeet Lally
	William MacLehose
	Gesine Manuwald
	Thibaut Maus de Rolley	Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia
	Sarah Milne
	Rosemary Moore
	Victoria Moul
	Jason Peacey
	Martyn Rady
	Charlotte Roberts
	Lisa Sampson	Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing
	Rose Marie San Juan
	Peter Schroeder
	Chris Stamatakis
	Judy Stephenson
	Allison Stielau
	Ulrich Tiedau
	Brian Vickers
	René Weis
	Anne Welsh
	Simon Werrett
	Ian Williams
	Alison Wright
	Maria Wyke

 

European Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Dr Mart Kuldkepp	Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I	Coming soon...
Teaching staff	Haki Antonsson	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
	James Connolly	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II
	Tessa Hauswedell	Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity
	Kevin Inston	Community; Democracy; Equality; Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Nancy; Rancière; Rousseau
	Brian Klaas	Democracy; African Politics; American Politics; Authoritarian Populism; Authoritarianism; Civil Wars; Côte d'Ivoire; Coups d'Etat; Democracy Promotion; Democratisation; Dictatorship; Disinformation; Donald Trump; Election Rigging; Elections; International Diplomacy; Madagascar; US Foreign Policy; Political Violence; Political Campaigns; Thailand; Tunisia
	Reinier van Straten

 

Film Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor
Core staff	Professor Stella Bruzzi		Coming soon...
	Professor Lee Grieveson	Censorship; Culture (Liberal and Neo-Liberal Cultures); Data-Mining; Documentary; Imperialism; Media and Political Economy; Media History; Media Industries; Militant/Radical Media; Surveillance Capitalism; Early Cinema; Media and Imperialism; US Cinema/Media History; Political Media
Programme Director (PGT)	Dr Claire Thomson	Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema
Programme Director (PGR)	Dr Keith Wagner	Adaptation and Genre Theory; Animation and Subculture; Cosmopolitanism Digital Culture; Film and Culture (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone); Global South and North Media Systems; Globalisation and Regionalisation; Neoliberalism and Financialisation; Precarity; Theories of Global Cinema/Global Literature; Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, South African, Nigerian and Anglophone Film and Culture
Teaching staff	Dr Emily Baker
	Professor Stephanie Bird
	Dr Lucy Bollington
	Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio
	Professor Jo Evans
	Dr Kate Foster	Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture
	Professor Stephen Hart
	Professor Susanne Kord	Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre)
	Dr Helene Neveu Kringelbach	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families
	Dr Roland Francois Lack
	Professor Claire Lindsay
	Dr Deborah Martin
	Dr Cristina Massaccesi	Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema
	Dr Jann Matlock
	Dr Rachel Morley
	Dr Lucia Rinaldi	Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema
	Dr Annie Ring	Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies
	Professor Melvyn Stokes

 

French Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of French Studies	Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley	Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia	Coming soon...
Language coordinators	Marie Fournier
	Dr Thibaut Raboin	Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer
Academic and teaching staff	James Agar	Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema
	Ruth Austin	Cocteau; Dystopias/Utopias; Vichy France; World War I; World War II Occupation France
	Dr Benjamin Bâcle	British and French Romanticism; French Eclecticism; French Personalism; French Revolution; French Political Thought Since 1789; Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism/Anti-Utilitarianism
	Dr Patrick M Bray
	Dr James Connolly	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II
	Dr Jane Gilbert	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
	Anais Griffiths
	Professor Azzedine Haddour
	Professor Mairéad Hanrahan
	Dr Kevin Inston	Community; Democracy; Equality; Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Nancy; Rancière; Rousseau
	Dr Roland-François Lack
	Dr Xiaofan Amy Li
	Professor Philippe Marlière	Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism
	Dr Jann Matlock
	Dr Cécile Renaud
	Karine Roumetz
	Dr Jennifer Rushworth	Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory
French Lecteurs/Lectrices	Lisa Cazau
	Marine Rondel
Emeritus and Honorary Appointments	Dr Felicity Baker
	Professor Celia Britton
	Professor Annette Lavers
	Professor Andrew Leak
	Professor Tim Mathews
	Dr Diana Tyson
	Professor Michael Worton

 

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Professor Ann Varley	Ageing; Family Law; Gender; Home; Household; Housing; Latin America; Marriage; Sexuality	Coming soon...
Core academic staff	Dr Alex Hyde (on leave until 31 August 2020)	Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation
	Dr Stefano Rossoni (cover until 31 August 2020)
	Dr Thibaut Raboin	Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer
Teaching staff	James Agar	Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema
	Judith Beniston	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History
	Jo Cook
	Alison Diduck
	Charlotte Faircloth
	Mechthild Fend
	Kate Foster	Child Image; Children’s Literature; Comparative Literary Studies; Contemporary Chinese Fiction; Hong Kong in Film; Landscape Literature; Sinophone Literary Culture
	Jane Gilbert	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
	Mairéad Hanrahan
	Philippa Hetherington
	Maki Kimura
	Caren Levy
	Vivienne Lo
	Simon Lock
	Deborah Martin
	Robert Mills
	Richard Mole
	Hélène Neveu Kringelbach	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families
	Jenny Parkes
	Kamna Patel
	Jane Rendell
	Annie Ring	Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies
	Jessica Ringrose
	Rachel Rosen
	Victoria Showunmi
	Ulrich Tiedau
	Elaine Unterhalter
	Steven Vaughan
	Julian Walker

 

German Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of German Studies	Dr Seb Coxon	Beards, Hair and Baldness; Comedy; Cultures of Laughter; Heroic Epic; Medieval Literature; Picaresque Novel	Coming soon...
Language coordinator	Dr Dagmar Paulus	German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Academic and teaching staff	Dr Judith Beniston	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History
	Professor Stephanie Bird
	Dr Jeff Bowersox	Colonialism; Culture; Europe; Germany; History; Migration; Nation; Race
	Dr Mererid Puw Davies
	Professor Mary Fulbrook
	Professor Mark Hewitson	European Integration; German History; Globalisation; Historical Theory; Nationalism; World War I
	Dr Geraldine Horan	Sociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics
	Professor Susanne Kord	Cultural History and Reception; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre-Twentieth-Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre)
	Dr Martin Liebscher
	Christina Parte
	Dr Dagmar Paulus	German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
	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
Postgraduate teaching assistant	Mathis Gronau
Lektoren	Sandra Deichsel
	Katharina Forster
	Christina Weichselbaumer
Honorary and Emeritus staff	Dr Joyce Crick
	Professor Martin Swales

 

Health Humanities / Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director (Health Humanities MA, MPhil / PhD)	Professor Sonu Shamdasani	Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry	Coming soon...
Programme Director (Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health MA)	Prof. James Wilson (currently on leave)
Programme Director (Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health MA)	Dr Leah Sidi (interim)
Teaching staff	Dr Martin Liebscher
	Professor Megan Vaughan
	Dr Ernst Falzeder
	Dr Graham Richards
Emeritus staff	Professor W. F. Bynum
	Professor Christopher Lawrence
	Professor Vivian Nutton
	Dr Andrew Wear

 

Italian Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Italian Studies	Dr Lisa Sampson	Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing	Coming soon...
Language Coordinator	Dr Cristina Massaccesi	Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Academic and teaching staff	Andrew Campbell
	Dr Eleanor Chiari	Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture
	Professor John Dickie	Banditry and Brigandage; Freemasonry and Fraternalism; Italian Food; Italian History Since Unification; Italian Literature 1860-1925; Italian Opera in the 19th Century; Mafia; Nationalism and National Identity in Italy; Natural Disasters; Organised Crime; Southern Italy
	Dr Catherine Keen
	Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri
	Dr Florian Mussgnug	Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature
	Dr Marta Niccolai	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)
Postgraduate teaching assistants	Olga Campofreda
	Dr Stefano Rossoni
Lettore	Sofia Sciardo
Emeritus Professors & Honorary Appointments	Dr Stephen Bennetts
	Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox
	Dr Lesley Caldwell
	Dr Barbara Garvin
	Professor Dilwyn Knox
	Professor Laura Lepschy
	Professor Giulio Lepschy
	Professor Robert Lumley
	Dr Tiziana Provvidera
	Dr Prue Shaw
	Professor John Took

 

Language & Culture BA

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Dr Eleanor Chiari	Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture	Coming soon...

 

Language, Culture & History MA

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Dr James Connolly	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II	Coming soon...

Scandinavian Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Scandinavian Studies	Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen		Coming soon...
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	Dr Haki Antonsson	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
	Jelena Calic
	Dr Elettra Carbone	Nordic Literature; Travel Literature; Mobility Studies; Museum Studies; North/South of Europe; Representations of National Identities in Literature (Imagology); Remediation of Visual Arts in Literature; Translation (Between Scandinavian Languages and Italian or English)
	Dr Erin Goeres	Associate Professor
	Jesper Hansen	Senior Teaching Fellow
	Annika Lindskog	Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation
	Dr Mart Kuldkepp	Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I
	Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
	Dr Claire Thomson	Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema

 

Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies	Dr Gareth Wood		Coming soon...
Language coordinators (Spanish)	Ms 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
	Mr Alejandro Bolanos García-Escribano	Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics
	Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio
	Professor Jo Evans
	Diego de Jesús Flores-Jaime
	Dr Niall Geraghty
	Professor Stephen Hart
	Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo	Biographical Studies; Comparative Literature; European Modernism; Linguistics in Foreign Languages Teaching; Literature of Exile and Counter-Exile; Teaching Foreign Languages; Twentieth-Century Spanish/Spanish American Literature and Culture
	Mr Haydn Kirnon
	Professor Claire Lindsay
	Dr Deborah Martin
	Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco	Indigenism; Literary Influence; Literature of Ideas; Poetics; Political Philosophy; Spanish American Independence
	Dr Adrian Pearce
	Ms Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro
	Dr Joana Rita Ramalho	Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness
	Dr Alexander Samson	Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction
	Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Book History; Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies
Emeritus Professors & Honorary Research Associates	Dr María del Pilar Blanco
	Professor Edward Chaney
	Maria Darnley
	Dr Francesca Denegri
	Professor Evelyn Fishburn
	Professor Angel María García Gómez
	Dr Robert Goodwin
	Professor Alberto Moreiras
	Professor Peter Standish
	Dr Breixo Viejo
	Professor Jason Wilson

 

Translation Studies (CenTraS)

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) & Programme Director (PGR)	Professor Kathryn Batchelor	Africa-China Relations; Francophone literature (African, Caribbean, North African); Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial Studies; Translation (Literary Translation - French and German if a Practical Element is Involved); Translation History; Translation Theory	Coming soon...
Programme Director (MA)	Dr Claire Shih
Programme Director (MSc)	Mr Alejandro Bolanos García-Escribano
Academic staff	Dr Rocío Baños Piñero
	Dr Geraldine Brodie	Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song
	Dr Christophe Declercq	British Area Studies (1789-1945); Localisation; Socio-Cultural Transnational History (1900-1945); Translation (Post-Editing Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation)
	Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas	Audio Description; Dubbing; Subtitling; Translation Technology; Translation Theory; Voiceover; Access to the Media; Fan Dubbing; Fan Subbing; Practical Translation English Into Spanish
	Professor  Federico M. Federici	Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises
	Professor Theo Hermans	Emeritus Professor
Teaching Fellows	Dr Mariam Aboelezz	English > Arabic
	Ms Fatimah Aljuied	English > Arabic
	Dr Bettina Bajaj	Language and Automation
	Ms Maria José Anjos	English > Portuguese Subtitling
	Ms Jacqueline Ball	German > English
	Ms Ingrid Berglund	English > Swedish Voiceover & Dubbing
	Mr Alejandro Bolanos García-Escribano	English > Spanish Subtitling; Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics
	Ms Deborah Chan	English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
	Dr Olivia Cockburn	Spanish > English
	Ms Angela Dickson	French > English
	Ms Daniela Ford	Translation Technology, 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
	Ms Anna Lucca	English > Italian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
	Dr Eleni Markou	English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
	Ms Veronica Miller	English > Russian Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
	Ms Renata Mliczak	English > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
	Dr Vicent Montalt	English > Spanish Medical Translation
	Ms Marga Navarrete	English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation; Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation
	Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki	Translation Technology, Language & Automation, Scientific & Technical Translation; Access Services; Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Audio Description; Corpora; Greek; Localisation; SDH; Subtitling; Translation (Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation); Translation Technology
	Mrs Ania Plank	English > Polish Medical Translation
	Mrs Anna Ponomareva	English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation; History of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian Formalism
	Dr Cécile Renaud	English > French Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
	Ms Monika Rusinska	English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation
	Ms Yoshiko Shimizu	English > Japanese Scientific & Technical Translation; Dubbing; Interpreting; Japanese; Subtitling; Translation (Crisis Translation); Translation (Legal Translation); Voiceover
	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
	Dr Soledad Zárate	Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling
Research Fellows	Dr Tzu-yu Lin	Comparative Postcolonial Studies; Taiwanese Literature and Memory Studies; Translation (Literary Translation); Translation (Postcolonial Translation); World Literature
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

 

Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies

Staff type	Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director	Professor Paul Gilroy