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Name	Associated programme(s)
A
Dr Robyn Adams	Early Modern Studies
Mr James Agar	French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ms Maria José Anjos	Translation Studies
Dr Christina Anderson	Daphne Jackson Senior Research Fellow
Professor Haki Antonssen	Early Modern Studies, European Studies, Scandinavian Studies
Dr Seth Anziska	Comparative Literature
Ms Ruth Austin	French Studies
B
Dr Benjamin Bâcle	French Studies
Ms Lydie Baillon	French Studies
Dr Bettina Bajaj	Translation Studies
Dr Emily Baker	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Rocío Baños Piñero	Translation Studies
Professor Kathryn Batchelor	Translation Studies
Dr Tim Beasley-Murray	Comparative Literature, Creative Critical Writing PhD
Dr Judith Beniston	Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies
Dr Stephen Bennetts	Italian Studies
Professor Zoltan Biedermann	Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Stephanie Bird	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies
Dr Uillieam Blacker	Comparative Literature
Dr Sergei Bogatyrev	Early Modern Studies
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Dr Lucy Bollington	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies
Dr Jeff Bowersox	German Studies
Professor Rachel Bowlby	Comparative Literature
Professor Wendy Bracewell	Early Modern Studies
Professor Patrick Bray	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Professor Celia Britton	French Studies
Professor Geraldine Brodie	Comparative Literature, Translation Studies
Professor Stella Bruzzi	Film Studies
Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox	Italian Studies
Professor Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski	Early Modern Studies
Professor Bill Bynum	Health Humanities
C
Dr Lesley Caldwell	Italian Studies
Dr Jelena Calic	Scandinavian Studies
Ms Olga Campofreda	Italian Studies
Dr Elettra Carbone	Scandinavian Studies
Ms Elsa Castro	Translation Studies
Ms Deborah Chan	Translation Studies
Professor Edward Chaney	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Frederic Chaume	Translation Studies
Dr Eleanor Chiari	Italian Studies, Language & Culture BA
Dr Olivia Cockburn	Translation Studies
Dr James Connolly	European Studies, French Studies, Language Culture & History MA
Professor Stephen Conway	Early Modern Studies
Dr Jo Cook	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Seb Coxon	Medieval Studies, German Studies
Dr Tom Cunliffe	Film Studies
D
Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Selena Daly	Italian Studies
Professor Mererid Puw Davies	German Studies
Professor Paul Davis	Early Modern Studies
Dr Christophe Declercq	Translation Studies
Dr Hans Demeyer	Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies
Ms Diana Dethloff	Early Modern Studies
Dr Alice Dias-Mercier	French and Francophone Studies
Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas	Translation Studies
Professor John Dickie	Italian Studies
Professor Alison Diduck	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson	Film Studies
E
Dr Richard Espley	Comparative Literature
Professor Jo Evans	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
F
Dr Bianca Facchini	Early Modern Studies
Dr Charlotte Faircloth	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Rebecca Falkoff	Italian Studies
Dr Ernst Falzeder	Health Humanities
Professor Federico M. Federici	Translation Studies
Mechthild Fend	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Jane Fenoulhet	Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies
Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Emily Floyd	Early Modern Studies
Mrs Daniela Ford	Translation Studies
Dr Katharina Forster	German Studies
Ms Marie Fournier	French Studies
Professor Mary Fulbrook	German Studies
G
Ms Marta Gabrych	Translation Studies
Dr Barbara Garvin	Italian Studies
Dr Niall Geraghty	Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Kristin Gerdes	Translation Studies
Professor Jane Gilbert	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Erin Goeres	Scandinavian Studies
Dr Hugh Goodacre	Early Modern Studies
Dr Robert Goodwin	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Angus Gowland	Early Modern Studies
Professor Lee Grieveson	Film Studies
Ms Anais Griffiths	French Studies
Dr Anne Grydehøj	Scandinavian Studies
Professor. Francois Guesnet	Early Modern Studies
Ms Helle Gulowsen	Translation Studies
H
Professor Helen Hackett	Early Modern Studies
Professor Azzedine Haddour	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Professor Mairéad Hanrahan	French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Mr Jesper Hansen	Scandinavian Studies
Dr Mihye Harker	Translation Studies
Professor Stephen M. Hart	Comparative Literature, Documentary-track PhD, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mr Luay Hasan	Translation Studies
Dr Tessa Hauswedell	Dutch Studies, European Studies
Dr Karen Hearn	Early Modern Studies
Professor Theo Hermans	Dutch Studies, Translation Studies
Dr Philippa Hetherington	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Mark Hewitson	German Studies, European Studies
Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir	Scandinavian Studies
Dr Rachel E. Holmes	Early Modern Studies
Dr Geraldine Horan	German Studies
Dr Ezra Horbury	Early Modern Studies
Dr Alex Hyde	Gender and Sexuality Studies
I
Dr Kevin Inston	European Studies, French Studies
Dr Chloe Ireton	Early Modern Studies
J
Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
K
Professor Ben Kaplan	Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies
Ms Yuki Kawaguchi	Translation Studies
Professor Catherine Keen	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies
Dr Maki Kimura	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Mr Haydn Kirnon	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Mr Terry King
Ms Thaïs Kitahara	Translation Studies
Dr Brian Klaas	European Studies
Professor Dilwyn Knox	Italian Studies
Professor Susanne Kord	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies
Dr Mart Kuldkepp	European Studies, Scandinavian Studies
L
Dr Juan Lalaguna	Translation Studies
Dr Jagjeet Lally	Early Modern Studies
Professor Christopher Lawrence	Health Humanities
Professor Andrew Leak	French Studies
Professor Miriam Leonard	Comparative Literature
Professor Giulio Lepschy	Italian Studies
Professor Laura Lepschy	Italian Studies
Professor Caren Levy	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Xiaofan Amy Li	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Dr Martin Liebscher	German Studies, Health Humanities
Dr Tzu-yu Lin	Translation Studies
Professor Claire Lindsay	Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Annika Lindskog	Scandinavian Studies
Professor Vivienne Lo	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Simon Lock	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Robert Lumley	Italian Studies
M
Professor Kevin MacDonald	African Studies
Professor Gesine Manuwald	Early Modern Studies
Dr Eleni Markou	Translation Studies
Professor Philippe Marlière	French Studies
Ms Kate Marlow
Professor Deborah Martin	Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Cristina Massaccesi	Film Studies, Italian Studies
Dr Serenella Massidda	Translation Studies
Dr Jann Matlock	Comparative Literature, Film Studies, French Studies
Professor Tim Mathews	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies
Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies
Ms Veronica Miller	Translation Studies
Professor Bob Mills	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Zoran Milutinović	Comparative Literature
Ms Renata Mliczak	Translation Studies
Ms Daniela Mittelstadt	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Richard Mole	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Vicent Montalt	Translation Studies
Dr Rosemary Moore	Early Modern Studies
Ms Danielle Mordini	Translation Studies
Professor Alberto Moreiras	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Rachel Morley	Film Studies
Dr Victoria Moul	Early Modern Studies
Ms Mathilde Murray	French Studies
Professor Florian Mussgnug	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies
N
Dr Marga Navarrete	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach	African Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Marta Niccolai	Italian Studies
Dr Kristijan Nikolic	Translation Studies
Dr Luke de Noronha	Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Vivian Nutton	Health Humanities
O
Dr Mazal Oaknin	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
P
Professor Enrico Palandri	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies
Professor Jenny Parkes	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ms Christina Parte	German Studies
Dr Paige Patchin	Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
Dr Kamna Patel	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki	Translation Studies
Dr Dagmar Paulus	German Studies
Professor Jason Peacey	Early Modern Studies
Dr Adrian Pearce	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mrs Ania Plank	Translation Studies
Dr Anna Ponomareva	Translation Studies
Dr Tiziana Provvidera	Italian Studies
Mr James Puchowski	Scandinavian Studies
Q
Dr Gerdi Quist	Dutch Studies
R
Dr Thibaut Raboin	French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Martyn Rady	Early Modern Studies
Dr Joana Rita Ramalho	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Cécile Renaud	French Studies, Translation Studies
Professor Jane Rendell	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Lucia Rinaldi	Film Studies, Italian Studies
Dr Annie Ring	Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies
Professor Jessica Ringrose	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Charlotte Roberts	Early Modern Studies
Dr Rachel Rosen	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Stefano Rossoni	Gender and Sexuality Studies, Italian Studies
Ms Karine Roumetz	French Studies
Dr Jennifer Rushworth	Comparative Literature, French Studies
Ms Monika Rusinska	Translation Studies
S
Professor Reinier Salverda	Dutch Studies
Professor Vieri Samek-Lodovici	Italian Studies
Dr Lisa Sampson	Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies
Professor Alexander Samson	Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Rose Marie San Juan	Early Modern Studies
Ms Christine Sas	Dutch Studies
Professor Peter Schroeder	Early Modern Studies
Dr Gianfranco Selgas	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mr Yousaf Shak	Translation Studies
Professor Sonu Shamdasani	German Studies, Health Humanities
Dr Prue Shaw	Italian Studies
Dr Claire Shih	Translation Studies
Ms Yoshiko Shimizu	Translation Studies
Dr Victoria Showunmi	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Beatrice Sica	Comparative Literature, Italian Studies
Dr Leah Sidi	Health Humanities
Ms Fiona Soliman	Translation Studies
Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter	Translation Studies
Dr Chris Stamatakis	Early Modern Studies
Dr Judy Stephenson	Early Modern Studies
Dr Allison Stielau	Early Modern Studies
Professor Melvyn Stokes	Film Studies
Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen	Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies
Mr Sam Strong	Translation Studies
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Martin Swales	German Studies
Dr Matthew Symonds	Early Modern Studies
Dr Agnieszka Szarkowska	Translation Studies
T
Professor Claire Thomson	Film Studies, Scandinavian Studies
Professor Ulrich Tiedau	Dutch Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor John Took	Italian Studies
U
Professor Elaine Unterhalter	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Reinier van Straten	European Studies, German Studies
V
Professor Ann Varley	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Phiroze Vasunia	Comparative Literature
Professor Megan Vaughan	Health Humanities
Professor Steven Vaughan	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor Brian Vickers	Early Modern Studies
Dr Breixo Viejo	Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mr Paul Vincent	Dutch Studies
W
Mr Julian Walker	Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Caiwen Wang	Translation Studies
Ms Christina Weichselbaumer	German Studies
Professor René Weis	Early Modern Studies
Professor Simon Werrett	Early Modern Studies
Dr Ian Williams	Early Modern Studies
Professor James Wilson	Health Humanities
Dr Gareth Wood	Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Michael Worton	French Studies
Professor Alison Wright	Early Modern Studies
Professor Maria Wyke	Early Modern Studies
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Y
Z
Dr Soledad Zárate	Translation Studies
Dr Xiaochun Zhang	English > Chinese Translation
Dr Peter Zusi	Comparative Literature

By programme:

African Studies

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

This programme is currently not running

Comparative Literature

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director (BA)		Coming soon...
Dr Jennifer Rushworth	Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory
Programme Director (MA / PhD)
Dr Hans Demeyer	Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Academic and teaching staff
Dr Emily Baker
Dr Tim Beasley-Murray
Dr Lucy Bollington
Professor Rachel Bowlby
Dr Sonia Gollance
Professor Stephen M. Hart	19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.
Dr Xiaofan Amy Li
Dr Jann Matlock
Professor Florian Mussgnug	Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature
Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families
Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen	Comparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studies
Professor Phiroze Vasunia
Dr Peter Zusi
Associated staff
Dr Seth Anziska
Dr Judith Beniston	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History.
Professor Stephanie Bird	Modern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work.
Dr Uillieam Blacker
Professor Patrick Bray
Professor Geraldine Brodie	Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song
Mr Andrew Campbell	The life and works of Paolo Antonio Foscarini (c. 1562–1616); Renaissance encyclopedism; the disputation booklet in early modern Italy; weather forecasting in southern Italy, 1560–1640.
Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio	Visual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin America
Professor Jo Evans	19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space.
Dr Niall Geraghty
Professor Jane Gilbert	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
Professor Azzedine Haddour
Professor Catherine Keen	Medieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy.
Professor Susanne Kord	Cultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre).
Professor Miriam Leonard
Dr Tzu-yu Lin	English > Chinese Translation
Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley	Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia
Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri	English and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fiction
Professor Zoran Milutinović
Dr Marta Niccolai	Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; race; political theatre
Professor Enrico Palandri	Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics
Dr Anna Ponomareva	English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation; History of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian Formalism
Dr Joana Rita Ramalho	Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness
Professor Alexander Samson	Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction
Dr Beatrice Sica	Comparative Literature, Italian-French; Italian Cultural History and Visual Studies; Italian Fascism; Italian Futurism, French Surrealism and European Avant-Gardes; Italian Literature and Cultural Studies; Magical Realism and Fantastic Literature
Dr Leah Sidi
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies; 19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion history
Dr Gareth Wood	19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation.
Emeritus professors
Professor Jane Fenoulhet
Professor Tim Mathews	20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing.
Honorary Staff
Dr Richard Espley

 

Creative Critical Writing PhD

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director		Coming soon...
Dr Tim Beasley-Murray
Professor Tim Mathews (Founding Director)	20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing.

 

Documentary Track PhD

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director		Coming soon...
Professor Stephen Hart	19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.

 

Dutch Studies / Low Countries Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Dutch Studies / Language Coordinator		Coming soon...
Christine Sas	Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Standardisation (History of); Language, Power and Ideology; Multilingualism
Academic, teaching and research staff
Dr Hans Demeyer	Affect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Dr Tessa Hauswedell	Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity
Professor Ulrich Tiedau	European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities
Dr Christina Anderson	Daphne Jackson Senior Research Fellow
Honorary staff
Dr Nicholas Piercey
Dr Gerdi Quist
Professor Reinier Salverda
Paul Vincent
Emeriti
Professor Jane Fenoulhet
Professor Theo Hermans

 

Early Modern Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director (MA)		Coming soon...
Dr Matthew Symonds
Programme Director (PhD)
Professor Alexander Samson	Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction
Teaching staff
Dr Robyn Adams
Professor Haki Antonssen	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
Professor Zoltan Biedermann	Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature
Sergei Bogatyrev
Wendy Bracewell
Richard Butterwick - Pawlikowski
Mr Andrew Campbell	The life and works of Paolo Antonio Foscarini (c. 1562–1616); Renaissance encyclopedism; the disputation booklet in early modern Italy; weather forecasting in southern Italy, 1560–1640.
Stephen Conway
Seb Coxon	Gender and masculinities; beards, hair and baldness as literary and iconographic motifs; comedy and cultures of laughter; early modern jokes and joke-books; fools and folly
Paul Davis
Diana Dethloff
Bianca Facchini
Emily Floyd
Professor Jane Gilbert	Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context
Hugh Goodacre
Angus Gowland
Francois Guesnet
Helen Hackett
Karen Hearn
Rachel E. Holmes
Julian Hoppit
Ezra Horbury
Chloe Ireton
Ben Kaplan
Professor Catherine Keen	Mdieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy.
Gerard Kilroy
Jagjeet Lally
Gesine Manuwald
Thibaut Maus de Rolley	Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia.
Sarah Milne
Rosemary Moore
Victoria Moul
Jason Peacey
Martyn Rady
Charlotte Roberts
Dr Lisa Sampson	Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing
Professor Rose Marie San Juan
Peter Schroeder
Chris Stamatakis
Judy Stephenson
Allison Stielau
Professor Ulrich Tiedau	European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities
Brian Vickers
René Weis
Anne Welsh
Simon Werrett
Ian Williams
Alison Wright
Maria Wyke

 

European Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director		Coming soon...
Dr Mart Kuldkepp	Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I
Teaching staff
Dr Haki Antonsson	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
James Connolly	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II
Tessa Hauswedell	Contemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and Ethnicity
Professor Mark Hewitson	European Integration;  Globalisation; Historical Theory; 19th and 20th century German history; nationalism in Europe from the 18th century to the present; the First World War; war and society in Germany since the Napoleonic wars; German social and political thought; the history of European integration; visual history, intellectual and comparative history.
Kevin Inston	Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Rousseau,  20th Century Political thought and Philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Lefort et al) with a particular emphasis on democracy, community and equality.
Brian Klaas	Democracy; African Politics; American Politics; Authoritarian Populism; Authoritarianism; Civil Wars; Côte d'Ivoire; Coups d'Etat; Democracy Promotion; Democratisation; Dictatorship; Disinformation; Donald Trump; Election Rigging; Elections; International Diplomacy; Madagascar; US Foreign Policy; Political Violence; Political Campaigns; Thailand; Tunisia
Reinier van Straten
Professor Ulrich Tiedau	European History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital Humanities

 

Film Studies

Name	Research interests		PhD supervisor
Core staff			Coming soon...
Professor Stella Bruzzi
Professor Lee Grieveson	Censorship; Culture (Liberal and Neo-Liberal Cultures); Data-Mining; Documentary; Imperialism; Media and Political Economy; Media History; Media Industries; Militant/Radical Media; Surveillance Capitalism; Early Cinema; Media and Imperialism; US Cinema/Media History; Political Media
Programme Director
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
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 Kirsty Sinclair Dootson	19th and 20th-century british visual culture, material and technical histories of art and film, colour media.
Professor Jo Evans	19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space.
Professor Stephen Hart	19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.
Professor Susanne Kord	Cultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre).
Dr Helene Neveu Kringelbach	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families
Professor Claire Lindsay	19th and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America, 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film, Latino Studies, migration, mobility and space.
Professor Claire Thomson	Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema
Dr Cristina Massaccesi	Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Professor Deborah Martin	Latin American cinema, women's filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities.
Dr Jann Matlock
Dr Rachel Morley
Dr Lucia Rinaldi	Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Dr Annie Ring	Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies
Professor Melvyn Stokes

 

French and Francophone Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of French Studies		Coming soon...
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
Language coordinators
Ms Marie Fournier
Academic and teaching staff
Mr James Agar	Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema
Ms Ruth Austin	Cocteau; Dystopias/Utopias; Vichy France; World War I; World War II Occupation France
Dr Benjamin Bâcle	British and French Romanticism; French Eclecticism; French Personalism; French Revolution; French Political Thought Since 1789; Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism/Anti-Utilitarianism
Professor Patrick Bray
Dr James Connolly	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II
Dr Alice Dias-Mercier
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
Anais Griffiths
Professor Azzedine Haddour
Professor Mairéad Hanrahan	Contemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction.
Dr Kevin Inston	Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe; Rousseau,  20th Century Political thought and Philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Lefort et al) with a particular emphasis on democracy, community and equality.
Dr Xiaofan Amy Li
Professor Philippe Marlière	Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism; French sociology (Pierre Bourdieu); France and the European Union.
Dr Jann Matlock
Dr Thibaut Raboin	Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer
Dr Cécile Renaud
Karine Roumetz
Dr Jennifer Rushworth	Music; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; Theory
French Lecteurs/Lectrices
Ms Lydie Baillon
Ms Mathilde Murray
Emeritus and Honorary Appointments
Professor Celia Britton
Professor Andrew Leak
Professor Tim Mathews	20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing.
Professor Michael Worton
In Memoriam
Dr Roland-François Lack: an obituary for a much missed colleague

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director		Coming soon...
Professor Ann Varley	Ageing; Family Law; Gender; Home; Household; Housing; Latin America; Marriage; Sexuality
Core academic staff
Dr Alex Hyde	Critical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; Militarisation
Dr Thibaut Raboin	Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer
Dr Stefano Rossoni
Teaching staff
Mr James Agar	Queer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer Cinema
Dr Judith Beniston	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History
Jo Cook
Alison Diduck
Charlotte Faircloth
Mechthild Fend
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 Mairéad Hanrahan	Contemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction.
Philippa Hetherington	Tribute to Dr Philippa Hetherington (SSEES)
Maki Kimura
Caren Levy
Vivienne Lo
Simon Lock
Professor Deborah Martin	Latin American cinema, women's filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities.
Robert Mills
Richard Mole
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach	Ethnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational Families
Jenny Parkes
Kamna Patel
Jane Rendell
Annie Ring	Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies
Jessica Ringrose
Rachel Rosen
Victoria Showunmi
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
Elaine Unterhalter
Steven Vaughan
Julian Walker

German Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of German Studies		Coming soon...
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.
Language coordinator
Dr Dagmar Paulus	German Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Academic and teaching staff
Dr Judith Beniston	Translation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History
Professor Stephanie Bird	Modern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work.
Professor Seb Coxon	Gender and masculinities; beards, hair and baldness as literary and iconographic motifs; comedy and cultures of laughter; early modern jokes and joke-books; fools and folly
Professor Mererid Puw Davies	Fairy tales (Märchen) and fantastic literature and film; 20th and 21st century German literature, culture and film, cultural history, literature and film of the Federal Republic of Germany and the culture of the West German protest movements of the 1960s; comparative approaches, and poetry.
Professor Mary Fulbrook	20th century German social and political history, the Third Reich and GDR, inter-disciplinary, transnational and comparative approaches.
Professor Mark Hewitson	European Integration;  Globalisation; Historical Theory; 19th and 20th century German history; nationalism in Europe from the 18th century to the present; the First World War; war and society in Germany since the Napoleonic wars; German social and political thought; the history of European integration; visual history, intellectual and comparative history.
Dr Geraldine Horan	Sociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics; Discourse analysis, political discourse, gender and language, language and National Socialism, nationalist discourse, far-right discourse, and taboo language (e.g. cursing and swearing).
Professor Susanne Kord	Cultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre).
Dr Martin Liebscher	19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature.
Christina Parte
Catherine Plant
Dr Annie Ring	Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance Studies
Professor Sonu Shamdasani	Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry
Dr Reinier van Straten
Lektorinnen
Dr Katharina Forster
Ms Christina Weichselbaumer
Honorary and Emeritus staff
Professor Martin Swales

Health Humanities / Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director (Health Humanities)		Coming soon...
Professor Sonu Shamdasani	Psychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; Psychiatry
Professor James Wilson (Co-Programme Director)
Programme Director (Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health)
Dr Leah Sidi
Teaching staff
Dr Martin Liebscher	19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature.
Emeritus staff
Professor Bill Bynum
Professor Christopher Lawrence
Professor Vivian Nutton
Dr Andrew Wear

Italian Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Italian Studies		Coming soon...
Professor John Dickie	Banditry and Brigandage; Freemasonry and Fraternalism; Italian Food; Italian History Since Unification; Italian Literature 1860-1925; Italian Opera in the 19th Century; Mafia; Nationalism and National Identity in Italy; Natural Disasters; Organised Crime; Southern Italy
Language Coordinator
Dr Cristina Massaccesi	Translation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Academic and teaching staff
Dr Eleanor Chiari	Cultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual Culture
Dr Selena Daly	Italian Studies
Dr Rebecca Falkoff	Modern and contemporary Italian and comparative literature, psychoanalysis, new materialist and post-humanist thought, gender and sexuality, nitrogen capture in fascist Italy, collecting and hoarding, illegibility and asemic writing, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Primo Levi, Elena Ferrante.
Professor Catherine Keen	Mdieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy.
Dr Maria-Novella Mercuri	English and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fiction
Professor Florian Mussgnug	Avant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World Literature
Dr Marta Niccolai	Italian (post)colonialism; Migration, Migrant literature and cinema; multiculturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance; race; political theatre
Professor Enrico Palandri	Psychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); Politics
Dr Lucia Rinaldi	Contemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and Cinema
Professor Vieri Samek-Lodovici	Dialect (Grammar, History, etc); Grammar (of a Language or Theory of grammar); Information Structure (Focus, Topichood, Givenness); Phonology (of a Language or Interesting Phonological Phenomenon); Syntax (of a Language or Interesting Syntactic Phenomenon); Language Acquisition (Study of How Language is Acquired by Children); Language Grammar (Syntax and/or Prosody of a Language or Dialect); Linguistics (Study of a Specific Theory in Linguistics or Grammatical Aspect of a Language; Prosody/Intonation (of a Language or Interesting Prosodic Phenomenon)
Dr Lisa Sampson	Cultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's Writing
Dr Beatrice Sica	Avant-gardes (Futurism Dada, Surrealism); Italian literature and art during Fascism; magical realism and fantastic literature; poetry; cultural exchanges between Italy and other countries, particularly France and the United States of America
Postgraduate teaching assistants
Ms Olga Campofreda
Dr Stefano Rossoni
Lettore / Lettrice
Dr Valeria Benzi
Emeritus Professors & Honorary Appointments
Dr Stephen Bennetts
Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox
Dr Lesley Caldwell
Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti
Dr Barbara Garvin
Professor Dilwyn Knox
Professor Laura Lepschy
Professor Giulio Lepschy
Professor Robert Lumley
Dr Tiziana Provvidera
Dr Prue Shaw
Professor John Took

Language & Culture BA

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

Language, Culture & History MA

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director		Coming soon...
Dr James Connolly (term 1 and 3)	World War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War II
Dr Thibaut Raboin (term 2)	Asylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; Queer

Scandinavian Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Scandinavian Studies		Coming soon...
Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen	Comparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studies
Language coordinator (Danish / Norwegian / Swedish)
Dr Anne Grydehøj	Comparative Literature; Crime Fiction; Culture (Scandinavian Language and Culture); Identity and Intersectionality; Mediatisation; Minority Languages and Literatures
Language coordinator (Icelandic / Old Norse)
Dr Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir	Cinematic Representations of Race/Class/Gender/Sexual Orientations; Culture (Nordic Culture); Culture (Popular Culture); Film (Hollywood Cinema); Film (Nordic Film); Folk Narratives and Fairy Tales; Nordic Literature; Post-Colonialism; Superheroes
Academic and teaching staff
Professor Haki Antonsson	Icelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and Society
Dr Jelena Calic	Critical language pedagogy; language contact and variation; multilingualism and standard language ideologies in Easter Europe and in the Nordic region; migration and discourses of integration in the Nordic region
Dr Elettra Carbone	Nordic Literature; Travel Literature; Mobility Studies; Museum Studies; North/South of Europe; Representations of National Identities in Literature (Imagology); Remediation of Visual Arts in Literature; Translation (Between Scandinavian Languages and Italian or English)
Dr Erin Goeres	Associate Professor
Jesper Hansen	Senior Teaching Fellow
Dr Mart Kuldkepp	Baltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War I
Annika Lindskog	Cultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; Translation
Kate Marlow	Old Norse and Old English literature, early medieval history, representations of ethnicity, the formation of group identity
James Puchowski	Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, ethnography, Norwegian Nynorsk, minority languages, language activism
Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen	Comparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studies
Professor Claire Thomson	Documentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow Cinema

Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies		Coming soon...
Professor Stephen M. Hart
Language coordinators (Spanish)
Dr Marga Navarrete	Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation
Dr Mazal Oaknin
Language coordinator (Portuguese)
Dr Joana Rita Ramalho	Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness
Academic and teaching staff
Dr Emily Baker
Professor Zoltán Biedermann	Cartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel Literature
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano	Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics
Dr Lucy Bollington
Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio	Visual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin America
Professor Jo Evans	19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space.
Mr Diego D J Flores-Jaime
Dr Niall Geraghty
Professor Stephen Hart	19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.
Dr Macarena Jiménez Naranjo	Biographical Studies; Comparative Literature; European Modernism; Linguistics in Foreign Languages Teaching; Literature of Exile and Counter-Exile; Teaching Foreign Languages; Twentieth-Century Spanish/Spanish American Literature and Culture
Mr Haydn Kirnon
Professor Claire Lindsay	19th and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America, 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film, Latino Studies, migration, mobility and space.
Professor Deborah Martin	Latin American cinema, women's filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities.
Ms Daniela Mittelstadt
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco	Indigenism; Literary Influence; Literature of Ideas; Poetics; Political Philosophy; Spanish American Independence; 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Spanish American essay writers.
Dr Adrian Pearce	Spanish colonial policy in the Americas and its outcomes in the long 18th century; British relations with Latin America, also primarily in the 18th century, and with a particular focus on trade; and the native peoples of the Andes in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Ms Isabel Pérez Lamigueiro
Dr Joana Rita Ramalho	Film Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political Correctness
Professor Alexander Samson	Colonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural Interaction
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva	Comparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies; 19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion history
Dr Gianfranco Selgas	Environmental and energy humanities, cultural studies, and the relationship between culture and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Late-19th, 20th, and 21st century Latin American and Caribbean cultural production and politics engaging with exctractivism to studies on critical theory and material culture with a world-ecological perspective.
Dr Gareth Wood	19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation.
Emeritus Professors & Honorary Research Associates
Professor Edward Chaney
Maria Darnley
Professor Evelyn Fishburn
Dr Robert Goodwin
Professor Alberto Moreiras
Dr Breixo Viejo

Translation Studies (CenTraS)

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS) & Programme Director (PhD)		Coming soon...
Professor Kathryn Batchelor	Africa-China Relations; Francophone literature (African, Caribbean, North African); Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial Studies; Translation (Literary Translation - French and German if a Practical Element is Involved); Translation History; Translation Theory
Programme Director (MA)
Dr Olivia Cockburn
Programme Director (MSc)
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano
Academic staff
Dr Rocío Baños Piñero
Professor Jorge Díaz-Cintas	Audio Description; Dubbing; Subtitling; Translation Technology; Translation Theory; Voiceover; Access to the Media; Fan Dubbing; Fan Subbing; Practical Translation English Into Spanish
Professor Geraldine Brodie	Translation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating Song
Dr Christophe Declercq	British Area Studies (1789-1945); Localisation; Socio-Cultural Transnational History (1900-1945); Translation (Post-Editing Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation)
Professor  Federico M. Federici	Crisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in Crises
Dr Claire Shih	Translation and Interpreting Studies; Translation Process Research; Web Search in Translation
Dr Xiaochun Zhang	English > Chinese Translation; Game localisation, Game Accessibility, Fan Audiovisual Translation, Translation Technology, Practical Translation English to Chinese
Teaching staff
Dr Mariam Aboelezz	Arabic translation; Bilingualism; Language politics; Language ideologies; Language and identity; Diglossia; Literary translation; Translation and decolonisation; Translation in heritage and cultural sectors.
Dr Bettina Bajaj	Language and Automation
Ms Maria José Anjos	English > Portuguese Subtitling
Ms Jacqueline Ball	German > English
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano	English > Spanish Subtitling; Literary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation Didactics
Ms Deborah Chan	English > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Dr Olivia Cockburn	Spanish > English
Ms Angela Dickson	French > English
Mrs Daniela Ford	Translation Technology, Machine Translation, English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Ms Kristin Gerdes	English > German Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Ms Ramona Gonczol	English > Romanian
Ms Helle Gulowsen	English > Norwegian Scientific & Technical Translation
Dr Mihye Harker	English > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Ms Jessica Hinds-Mingo	Spanish > English
Ms Yuki Kawaguchi	English > Japanese Medical Translation
Ms Thaïs Kitahara	English > Brazilian Portuguese Subtitling
Dr Juan Lalaguna	English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation & History of Translation
Dr Tzu-yu Lin	English > Chinese Translation
Ms Anna Lucca	English > Italian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Dr Eleni Markou	English > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation
Ms Veronica Miller	English<>Russian Interpreting, Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover and Dubbing, Culture, History and Economics
Ms Renata Mliczak	English > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Dr Vicent Montalt	English > Spanish Medical Translation
Dr Marga Navarrete	English > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation; Audio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website Localisation
Ms Emmanouela Patiniotaki	Translation Technology, Language & Automation, Scientific & Technical Translation; Access Services; Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Audio Description; Corpora; Greek; Localisation; SDH; Subtitling; Translation (Machine Translation); Translation (Specialised Translation); Translation Technology
Mrs Ania Plank	English > Polish Medical Translation
Dr Anna Ponomareva	English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation; History of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian Formalism
Dr Cécile Renaud	English > French Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover & Dubbing
Ms Monika Rusinska	English > Polish Scientific & Technical Translation
Mr Yousaf Shak	Lecturer (Teaching) in Audio Description
Ms Yoshiko Shimizu	English > Japanese Scientific & Technical Translation; Dubbing; Interpreting; Japanese; Subtitling; Translation (Crisis Translation); Translation (Legal Translation); Voiceover
Dr Victoria Solomonidis-Hunter	Language and Translation
Mr David Stockings	German > English
Dr Sam Strong	French > English and Localisation
Dr Caiwen Wang	English > Chinese Scientific & Technical Translation; Cognition; Interpreting; Linguistics
Mr Shak Yousaf
Dr Soledad Zárate	Accessibility; Children; Deaf; Hard of Hearing; SDH; Subtitling
Dr Xiaochun Zhang	English > Chinese Translation
Honorary appointments
Professor Frederic Chaume
Dr Serenella Massidda
Dr Kristijan Nikolic	CAT Tools; Culture Specific Items; Interlingual Subtitling; Literary Translation; Technology; Subtitling Profession
Professor Irene Ranzato
Noelia Marques-Cobeta
Emeritus Professor
Professor Theo Hermans

Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies

Name	Research interests	PhD supervisor?
Programme Director		Coming soon...
Professor Paul Gilroy
Admissions Tutor
Dr Luke de Noronha
Teaching staff
Dr Paige Patchin

Research Students