Modern Languages
People
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Professional services team
The professional services team provides administrative support for all subject areas across the School of Arts, Media and Communication.
Academic staff
French and Francophone Studies
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Madeleine Chalmers | Lecturer in French Studies | mcc54@le.ac.uk | |
| Dr Nicole Fayard | Associate Professor in French | 2692 | nf11@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Michelle Harrison | Lecturer in French | 2695 | mh394@le.ac.uk |
| Professor Elizabeth Jones | Pro Vice-Chancellor Education, previously Professor in French |
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 |
Spanish and Latin American Studies
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Clara Garavelli | Associate Professor in Spanish and Latin American Studies | 2687 | cg226@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Sheldon Penn | Associate Professor in Latin American Studies | 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 |
| Professor Lesley Wylie | Professor of Latin American Studies | 2668 | lw136@le.ac.uk |
Translation and Interpreting
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Jingjing Li | Lecturer in Translation Studies | jl768@le.ac.uk | |
| Dr Sara Naylor | Teaching Fellow in Translation | sjn23@le.ac.uk |
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| Dr Yan Ying | Associate Professor 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 |
Visiting Fellows, Honorary Fellows, and Emeritus Professors
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Rabah Aissaoui | Visiting Fellow, previously Associate Professor in French Studies | ra75@le.ac.uk |
| Professor Kirsten Malmkjær | Emeritus Professor of Translation Studies |
km240@le.ac.uk |
| Dr Ann Miller | University Fellow in French Studies | am84@leicester.ac.uk |
| Professor Sharon Wood | Emeritus Professor in Italian | slw26@le.ac.uk |
MPhil and PhD students
| Name | Project title |
| Amjad Alliheibi |
Translation of Alternative Self-help Books from English into Arabic: Features of Provocative Register as a Case Study |
| Zainab Al-Otoom |
The Translation of Postcolonial Themes in Contemporary Arabic Fiction into English A Sociosemiotic Study |
| Wafa Alshehry |
Investigating Emphasis in the Translations of the Meaning of the Qur'an |
| Lucy Bishop |
The reconceptualisation of childhood under the Italian Fascist regime |
| Maria-Jose Escudero Bregante | Mental Health Interpreting |
| Lauren Fletcher |
A Comparative Study of First, Second and Third Generation Latinx Literature: Gender, Sexuality and Social Change |
| Maz Hardy |
An exploration of the presentation of queer female abstraction throughout 20th century French literature |
| Rong Li |
Cross-cultural translation of literature and thought between China and America |
| Jiaying Wang |
A Narratological Approach to the English Translations of Modern Chinese Fiction |