People
Prefix telephone numbers with 0116 252 (or 223/229 where indicated) when calling from outside of the University.
Professional services team
The professional services team provides administrative support for all subject areas across the School of Arts (English, Modern Languages, and History of Art and Film).
Academic staff
French and Francophone Studies
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Rabah Aissaoui | Associate Professor in French Studies and Deputy Head of School of Arts | 2686 | ra75@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Madeleine Chalmers | Lecturer in French Studies | mcc54@le.ac.uk | |
| Dr Nicole Fayard | Senior Lecturer in French | 2692 | nf11@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Michelle Harrison | Lecturer in French | 2695 | mh394@le.ac.uk |
| Professor Elizabeth Jones | Professor in French | 2688 | ehj3@le.ac.uk |
| Simon Lambert | Honorary Fellow in French, Wallonie-Bruxelles International | sl534@le.ac.uk | |
| Dr Ann Miller | University Fellow in French Studies | am84@le.ac.uk | |
| Corinne Pelton | Teaching Fellow in French | 2661 | cp57@le.ac.uk |
Italian
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Guarnieri | Lecturer in Italian | 2680 | mg158@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Marina Spunta | Associate Professor of Italian | 2658 | m.spunta@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Simona Storchi | Associate Professor of Italian | 2654 | ss557@le.ac.uk |
| Professor Sharon Wood | Emeritus Professor in Italian | slw26@le.ac.uk |
Spanish and Latin American Studies
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Clara Garavelli | Associate Professor in Latin American Studies | 2687 | cg226@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Mariana Gonzalez | Teaching Fellow in Spanish | mgb26@le.ac.uk | |
| Dr Sheldon Penn | Associate Professor in Spanish | 2666 | scp10@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Emma Staniland | Lecturer in Spanish | 2689 | els15@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente | Lecturer in Spanish | 2660 | mudlf1@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Lesley Wylie | Associate Professor of Latin American Studies | 2668 | lw136@le.ac.uk |
Translation and Interpreting
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Ahmed Saleh Elimam | Associate Professor in Translation Studies | 3879 | ase5@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Jingjing Li | Lecturer in Translation Studies | jl768@le.ac.uk | |
| Professor Kirsten Malmkjær | Emeritus Professor of Translation Studies | 2663 | km240@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Sara Naylor | Teaching Fellow in Translation | sjn23@le.ac.uk |
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| Dr Yan Ying | Lecturer in Translation Studies | 5163 | yyc12@le.ac.uk |
Languages@Leicester
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Agnone | Coordinator of the Languages at Leicester programme | 2665 | ma547@le.ac.uk |
PhD students
| Name | Project title |
| Shatha Al Jabri | Translation of the Reverie in Romantic Poetry in Arabic |
| Noora Al Kaabi |
Socio-political aspects in framing narratives of conflict (submitted) |
| Zainab Al-Otoom |
Translating modern Arabic fiction into English |
| Laura Albertini |
(Re)exploring place through travel writing: Paolo Rundiz's travel writing as a practice of social and cultural awareness in contemporary Italy |
| Amjad Alliheibi |
Ideology in the translation of Cultural Lexical Templates to Arabic in self-help literature |
| Wafa Alshehry |
Investigating emphasis translation in the translation of the meaning of the Noble Qu'ran in light of Halliday's Synthetic Functional Linguistics Model |
| Shawna Browarsky-Quigley | Remembering Genocides in Comics and Graphic Novels |
| Jie Deng |
Agents in Translation: Production of Chinese classics in Penguin Modern Classics, 1946-1999 (submitted) |
| Dora Hooper |
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| Sheam Khan | The Perils of Receiving Revelation in Your Mother Tongue: A Critical Study of the Influence of the Translator's Ideology on the Message of the Qur'an |
| Ana Amelia Rodrigues Dos Santos | Critical functions of contemporary visual and digital poetry |
| Isobel Webster |
Representations of Queer Puerto Rican Identity in Documentary Film |
| Tingwen Xi |
Literary Genre in Translation: A case study of the Judge Dee series |