Postgraduate research

Modern Languages and Translation Studies

20th and 21st-Century Literature and Cultural Studies

Dr Madeleine Chalmers

  • 19th, 20th, and 21st century French literature and thought 
  • the historic avant-gardes (Surrealism, Dada, Situationism)
  • intersections between science, technology, and French culture
  • continental philosophy and critical theory
  • 19th-Century Literature and Cultural Studies

Dr Nicole Fayard

  • Performing arts
  • Shakespeare in France
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Gender studies and sexualities
  • Gender violence
  • Trauma and reparation
  • Literature
  • Autobiography

Dr Elizabeth Jones

  • Life writing
  • Autofiction
  • French and Francophone literature
  • Cultural geography
  • Literary cartography
  • Medical humanities
  • Algerian women's writing  

Dr Sheldon Penn

  • 20th-century and contemporary Mexican literature
  • Latin American cinema
  • Latin American ‘Boom’ literature
  • Mexican intellectual and cultural history
  • The cinema of Luis Buñuel
  • Applications of continental philosophy and critical theory to Latin American arts

Dr Marina Spunta

  • 20th/21st Century Italian literature
  • Cultural & Visual Studies
  • Postwar Italian Photography; Photography and Literature
  • Postwar Italian cinema
  • Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism; Anthropocene  
  • Space/Place/Landscape/Garden studies
  • Literary Orality and Vocality

Dr Simona Storchi

  • 20th-century Italian literature and cultural studies
  • Classicism and modernity
  • Italian intellectual and cultural history
  • Italian modernism and avant-garde (literature and visual arts)
  • Fascism and culture

Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente

  • Cultural production in Spain from 1975 to the present
  • The movida madrileña
  • Contemporary women’s writing in Spain
  • 'Literatura de la crisis'
  • Postmodernism in Spain

Dr Lesley Wylie

  • Latin American literature from the 1800s to the present
  • The novela de la tierra/novela de la selva
  • Colombian literature
  • The Amazon
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Ecocriticism
  • Plant studies
  • W. H. Hudson

Dr Yan Ying

  • Literary translation in practice
  • Chinese literature in English translation
  • Migrant literature

Film Studies, Photography and Visual Culture

Dr Madeleine Chalmers

  • 19th, 20th, and 21st century French literature and thought 
  • the historic avant-gardes (Surrealism, Dada, Situationism)
  • intersections between science, technology, and French culture
  • continental philosophy and critical theory
  • 19th-Century Literature and Cultural Studies

Dr Clara Garavelli

  • Argentine cinema
  • Latin American cinema
  • Hispanic documentary film
  • Videoart
  • Experimental film and video

Dr Nicole Fayard

  • Performing arts
  • Shakespeare in France
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Gender studies and sexualities
  • Gender violence
  • Trauma and reparation
  • Literature
  • Autobiography 

Dr Sheldon Penn

  • 20th-century and contemporary Mexican literature
  • Latin American cinema
  • Latin American ‘Boom’ literature
  • Mexican intellectual and cultural history
  • The cinema of Luis Buñuel
  • Applications of continental philosophy and critical theory to Latin American arts

Dr Marina Spunta

  • 20th/21st Century Italian literature
  • Cultural & Visual Studies
  • Postwar Italian Photography; Photography and Literature
  • Postwar Italian cinema
  • Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism; Anthropocene  
  • Space/Place/Landscape/Garden studies
  • Literary Orality and Vocality

Dr Simona Storchi

  • 20th-century Italian literature and cultural studies
  • Classicism and modernity
  • Italian intellectual and cultural history
  • Italian modernism and avant-garde (literature and visual arts)
  • Fascism and culture

Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente

  • Cultural production in Spain from 1975 to the present
  • The movida madrileña
  • Contemporary women’s writing in Spain
  • 'Literatura de la crisis'
  • Postmodernism in Spain

French and Francophone Studies

Dr Madeleine Chalmers

  • 19th, 20th, and 21st century French literature and thought
  • the historic avant-gardes (Surrealism, Dada, Situationism)
  • intersections between science, technology, and French culture
  • continental philosophy and critical theory
  • 19th-Century Literature and Cultural Studies

  • Performing arts
  • Shakespeare in France
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Gender studies and sexualities
  • Gender violence
  • Trauma and reparation
  • Literature
  • Autobiography

Dr Elizabeth Jones

  • Life writing
  • Autofiction
  • French and Francophone literature
  • Cultural geography
  • Literary cartography
  • Medical Humanities
  • Algerian women's writing

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Dr Nicole Fayard

  • Performing arts
  • Shakespeare in France
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Gender studies and sexualities
  • Gender violence
  • Trauma and reparation
  • Literature
  • Autobiography

Dr Elizabeth Jones

  • Life writing
  • Autofiction
  • French and Francophone literature
  • Cultural geography
  • Literary cartography
  • Medical humanities
  • Algerian women's writing 

Dr Sheldon Penn

  • Twentieth century and contemporary Mexican literature
  • Latin American cinema
  • Latin American ‘Boom’ literature
  • Mexican intellectual and cultural history
  • The cinema of Luis Buñuel
  • Applications of continental philosophy and critical theory to Latin American arts

Dr Marina Spunta

  • 20th/21st-century Italian literature and cultural studies
  • Postwar Italian cinema
  • Postwar Italian photography; photography and literature
  • Space, place, landscape studies
  • Orality and vocality

Italian Studies

Dr Marina Spunta

  • 20th/21st Century Italian literature
  • Cultural & Visual Studies
  • Postwar Italian Photography; Photography and Literature
  • Postwar Italian cinema
  • Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism; Anthropocene  
  • Space/Place/Landscape/Garden studies
  • Literary Orality and Vocality

Dr Simona Storchi

  • Italian intellectual and cultural history
  • Italian modernism and avant-garde (literature and visual arts)
  • Fascism and culture

Spanish and Latin American Studies

Dr Clara Garavelli

  • Argentine cinema
  • Latin American cinema
  • Hispanic documentary film
  • Videoart
  • Experimental film and video

Dr Sheldon Penn

  • 20th-century and contemporary Mexican literature
  • Latin American cinema
  • Latin American ‘Boom’ literature
  • Mexican intellectual and cultural history
  • The cinema of Luis Buñuel
  • Applications of continental philosophy and critical theory to Latin American arts

Dr Maite Usoz de la Fuente

  • Cultural production in Spain from 1975 to the present
  • The movida madrileña
  • Contemporary women’s writing in Spain
  • 'Literatura de la crisis'
  • Postmodernism in Spain

Dr Lesley Wylie

  • Latin American literature from the 1800s to the present
  • The novela de la tierra/novela de la selva
  • Colombian literature
  • The Amazon
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Ecocriticism
  • Plant studies
  • W. H. Hudson

  • US Latinx literature
  • British Latinx literature
  • Latin American women's writing
  • The Global Bildungsroman
 

Spatial Practices and Diaspora

Dr Nicole Fayard

  • Performing arts
  • Shakespeare in France
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Gender studies and sexualities
  • Gender violence
  • Trauma and reparation
  • Literature
  • Autobiography

Dr Elizabeth Jones

  • Life writing
  • Autofiction
  • French and Francophone literature
  • Cultural geography
  • Literary cartography
  • Medical humanities
  • Algerian women's writing 

Dr Marina Spunta

  • 20th/21st Century Italian literature
  • Cultural & Visual Studies
  • Postwar Italian Photography; Photography and Literature
  • Postwar Italian cinema
  • Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism; Anthropocene  
  • Space/Place/Landscape/Garden studies
  • Literary Orality and Vocality

Dr Lesley Wylie

  • Latin American literature, in particular the Novela de la Selva
  • Colombian literature
  • Testimonio
  • Travel writing
  • Literary geography
  • Postcolonial studies

Dr Yan Ying

  • Literary translation in practice
  • Chinese literature in English translation
  • Migrant literature

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Dr Nicole Fayard

  • Performing arts
  • Shakespeare in France
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Gender studies and sexualities
  • Gender violence
  • Trauma and reparation
  • Literature
  • Autobiography

Dr Yan Ying

  • Literary translation in practice
  • Chinese literature in English translation
  • Migrant literature 

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