Modern Languages

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, Media and Communication.

Academic staff

French and Francophone Studies

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Rabah Aissaoui Visiting Fellow, previously Associate Professor in French Studies
ra75@le.ac.uk 
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  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 Email
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 Email
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 
Dr Lesley Wylie  Associate Professor of Latin American Studies  2668  lw136@le.ac.uk 

Translation and Interpreting

Name Position Telephone Email
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
Dr Yan Ying Lecturer in Translation Studies 5163  yyc12@le.ac.uk 

Languages@Leicester

Name Position Telephone Email
Martin Agnone Coordinator of the Languages at Leicester programme 2665 ma547@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

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