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Professors and Associate Professors
Researchers, Fixed-Term and College Staff
Dr Frances Clemente
Research topicThe Ecstatic Dis-Order: A Cultural and Literary Investigation of Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915)
Language Lecturers
Doctoral Students
Javaria Abbasi
Research topicThe Black and Red of the Ancients: Challenges to Imperial Discourse in Early Modern Mexico (1521-1700)
Supervisor
Beverly Marie Adrian
Research topicResurrection, Reincarnation and the Perfectibility of the Soul in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, from Maistre to Hugo
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Anneli Aliaga
Research topicDecolonisation in Action: Ecological Narratives, Racial Politics and Cultural Authorship in Contemporary Indigenous Bolivian Filmmaking
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Emma Baxter
Research topicLiterary and Mathematical Modernisms in Russophone Literature 1900-1930
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Joseph Begley
Research topicMemory and trauma: Representations of the French Revolution in the 19th-century novel
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Trisevgeni Bilia
Research topicJames Joyce’s Ulysses in Greece: a case of modernist reception and translation in the periphery (The reception of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Greece)
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Irina Boeru
Research topicEdging towards the Afortunadas: tracing memory and identity in the ocean narratives of Le Canarien
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Rebecca Boyd
Research topicConjuring the Self: Renée Vivien and the Hermetics of Identity
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Vinicius Brunette
Research topicAires, the “conchavo” artist: a critical reading of Esaú e Jacó and Memorial de Aires
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Alexandra Burgar
Research topic'Our Slavic call': Femininity as a Tool for the Projection of Post-Socialist Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest
Supervisor
Silvia Cercarelli
Research topic20th century Italian literature, women's literature, antifascism
Supervisor
Ramani Chandramohan
Research topicConceptualising conversion: reading Herbert’s 'Li Romans de Dolopathos' in its manuscript context
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Shivani Chauhan
Research topicA critical analysis of mnemonic frameworks and literary devices in selected family narratives by women writers from Central and Eastern Europe
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Gwendoline Choi
Research topicThe German Colonial Imaginary 1918-1939: An Intermedial Study
Supervisor
Andrea di Serego Alighieri
Research topic“in the babbler that lives I demand to be inscribed” / “Chiss. elling dark. ness writing in lights” Amelia Rosselli and Kamau Brathwaite’s poetics of inscription across verse, page and diaspora
Supervisor
Lucas-Jan Dörre
Research topicMy project will investigate the importance of walking for German poetry since modernity, embedded in the long tradition of detours in German thought.
Supervisor
Rowan Dowling
Research topicUncovering The Untold History and Culture of Bisexuality in Russia (1991-2023)
Mareike Sophie Drünkler
Research topicUncovering Women's Voices: Alternative Forms of Participation in the German Enlightenment
Cameron Etherton
Research topicThe Poetics of Testimony in Jacques Derrida’s Later Writings
Supervisor
Agnes Fanning
Research topicTwo Latin American Anarchists: Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Patrícia Galvão (Pagu)
Agnes Fanning
Research topicTwo Latin American Anarchists: Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Patrícia Galvão (Pagu)
Mathieu Farizier
Research topicHow to do politics with words? The resurgence of revolutionary poetry in contemporary France
Supervisor
Sarah Isabelle Fengler
Research topicEuropean Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment
Supervisor
Louise Ferris
Research topicProust through the lens of Derrida, Nancy and Malabou: the breaking down of the distinction between the self and world in new forms of materiality
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Lillian Fontaine
Research topicGhosts of Colonies Past: Spectrality and Haunting in 21st Century Algerian Francophone Literature
Supervisor
Georgina Fooks
Research topicA Translational Poetics: Between Language(s) and Image in the Works of Alejandra Pizarnik and Susana Thénon
Supervisor
Sophie Forst
Research topicEnlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century
Claudia E. García Muñoz
Research topicSaint or Sinner?: The Multiple Faces of Lucretia in the Golden Age of Spain
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Anna Glieden
Research topicRepresentation and Perception of Sculptures in French Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Laura González Salmerón
Research topicIntersections between Science and Literature: Anglophone influences in contemporary Spanish fiction
Olga Grochowska
Research topicThe Vanished Others: Narrating Poland’s Pre-Second World War Multi-Ethnicity in Contemporary Polish Prose
Supervisor
Martyna Grzesiak
Research topicItalian book history: A copy census of the first printed Italian Bible translation by Nicolò Malerbi (1471).
Supervisor
Cristina Dondi
Aditi Gupta
Research topicJean-Baptiste Gentil (1726-1799), A Traveller, Patron, Collector, and Historian: A Page in Indo-French Cultural Relations
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Alice Hawkins
Research topicFeminine Subjectivity and Virtue in Medieval Romance: the cases of Guinevere and Iseut
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Katherine Helmick
Research topicThe Impact of Inherited Trauma on Translingual Expression in South African and Equatorial Guinean Poetry
Alexandra Hertlein
Research topicArchetype, Genealogy and Founding Myth – The Search for Origins in Scientific, Philosophical and Philological Texts of the 18th and 19th Century
Supervisor
Nicola Holt
Research topicWhat can literature do that philosophy can’t? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch
Michelle Chunhan Hsu
Research topicGender and Empire in Turn-of-the-Century French Literature on China
Supervisor
Lingchen Huang
Research topicLiquid World and Solid Objects: Affect and the Nonhuman Turn in Clarice Lispector's Writing
Adam Husain
Research topicUnity and Transformation in À la recherche: Proust through the lens of Catherine Malabou
Supervisor
Roberto Interdonato
Research topicAlienation and the Utopian Function of Literature in Anna Maria Ortese and Ingeborg Bachmann
Roberto Interdonato
Research topicAlienation and the Utopian Function of Literature in Anna Maria Ortese and Ingeborg Bachmann
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Research topicLe Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Research topicLe Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics
Joseph Kelly
Research topic‘Bringing Imperial Rome to life in the Wireless World: Radio, Nationalism and Spiritual Imperialism in Fascist Italy’
Supervisor
Simon Kerr
Research topicThe ‘enveloppe close’: Reading minds in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
Supervisor
Akari Kobayashi
Research topicTextual/Sexual Bodies in Translation: Metamorphosing Sex in Ovide Moralisé and Ovidius Moralizatus
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Sofiia Kosourova
Research topicHybrid War and Hybrid Memories: the Russo-Ukrainian Сonflict in Film"
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Elliot Koubis
Research topicAgainst Homochrononormativity: New Queer Times in French and Greek Literature
Elliot Koubis
Research topicAgainst Homochrononormativity: New Queer Times in French and Greek Literature
Maya Kucinskas
Research topicAesthetic of Liminality and Hallucination : the modeling of an imaginary world and the "montage of emotions" – a poetic enquiry in film and literature, from Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit to Hayao Miyazaki.
Supervisor
Oleg Larionov
Research topicProduction of Sensibility: Institutions, Media and Discourses of Russian Sentimentalism
Supervisor
Patrick Leuenberger
Research topicCritical Study of the Representation of the Stranger and Dark Skin in German Medieval Literature
Katerina Levinson
Research topicIconographic Strength: Female Agency through Immaculist Devotion in Calderón’s Marian Autos Sacramentales
Supervisor
Robert Ley
Research topicRepresentations of consumption from medieval chansons to geste to François Rabelais
Martin Lindner
Research topic(De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Habsburg’s inner & extra-European discourses of identity and difference.
Supervisor
Eleanor Lischka
Research topicProust and poetry: lyric subjectivity and poetic voice in the work of Marcel Proust
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Julia Lorenz
Research topicMeasuring Intensity – A New Methodological Approach towards Medieval Relationships
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Marie Martine
Research topic'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Marie Martine
Research topic'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Benjamin Micallef
Research topicSemio-Ecology: An Archeology of Ontological Difference in European Thought (1948-1968)
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Dr Waqas Mirza
Research topicLanguage and Self in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy: the Self-Translation of the Representation of the Mind
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Sally Mullis
Research topicAnimal cognition and the arts in early modern French thought, c. 1570-1700
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Victoria Musvik
Research topicPerestroika as a Memory Hole: Selective Amnesia and the Affective Revival of the Perestroika Years and the Early Nineties in Russia
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Mary Katherine Newman
Research topicColonial Spanish American literature and historiography
Supervisor
Lynn Nguyen
Research topicBetween fact and fiction: History, storytelling, and ethics in contemporary French literature of the Second World War
Aoife Ní Chroidheáin
Research topicStasi and Samizdat: From Infiltration to Infiltration Art
Supervisor
Jack Nunn
Research topicCrafting Anthologies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance France: Collecting, Selecting, Arranging
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Anastasiia Oleshchuk
Research topicShaping Ideas about Women and the Nation: Russian Literary Anthologies, 1850–1900
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Vera Otdelnova
Research topic'Creative Support'. Easel Painting and Socialist State in the late 1950s-1980s
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Isabel Parkinson
Research topicTranslating the 'erzaehlte Innenwelt': Analysing English translations of German-language women-authored consciousness narratives.
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Jose Parra Zeltzer
Research topicControl and chance in the representation of peripheral spaces and identities in contemporary Chilean fiction cinema
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Catriona Parry
Research topicAdaptation, Dialogism and Disaffection during “O Colapso”: Angolan Cinema from 1982-1999
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Maria Pereira Branco
Research topicThe differences that bind them together in the search for freedom: a comparative study of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Natália Correia
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Timothy Powell
Research topicThe Reception of Hans Sachs in the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990
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Sasho Pshenko
Research topicThe late thought of Gilles Deleuze, as presented in Cinema, structuralism, film, literature
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Elisian Eleni Maria Ralli
Research topicFrom Bibliophilia to Biophilia: Selfhood and Alterity in the Illustrations of the Fin-de-siècle Livre de Luxe (1880-1914)
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Xavier Rock
Research topicGender Portrayal and Gender Identity: A Russian-Language Cultural Media Analysis
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Mariana Rodriguez Barreno
Research topicFeminine hemispheres: networks and international cultural production in the first half of the twentieth century
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Holly Rowe
Research topicEvidence, example, and expérience in the eighteenth-century French essay
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Olivia Russell
Research topicReleasing reminiscences: the process of imagination in the autobiographical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Giacomo Casanova
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Lorena Sanchez Gallego
Research topicSynergies between Peninsular and English Gothic representations of phobias and psychosomatic conditions
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Hannah Scheithauer
Research topicCross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German
Hannah Scheithauer
Research topicCross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German
Marlene Schilling
Research topicPersonification as Devotional Strategy in Middle Low German Literature
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Rebecca Schleuss
Research topicHealing Sisters. Health Provision in Medieval Convent Rules and Literature
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Sarah Schwarz
Research topicThe Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann
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Ola Sidorkiewicz
Research topicA New Language for Polish Literature: Themerson, Czapski, and Kuncewiczowa in the Shadow of Conrad
Kate Sligo
Research topicA French Idea of the Global: the space of diversity at Éditions Stock
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Katherine Smith
Research topicMaestressa e doctoressa: The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Spanish American Women's Writing
Egor Sokolov
Research topicCults and Culture. Late Soviet Cultural Studies as Intellectual and Social Practice
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Elena Sorochina
Research topicThe sylph and sylphide in French cultural production (1681 - 1801)
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Elena Sorochina
Research topicThe sylph and sylphide in French cultural production (1681 - 1801)
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Nicholas Stedman
Research topicCharles Nodier & the rise of problematic notions of authorial originality in French letters from the 18th to the 19th century
Asimina Tassopoulou
Research topicEarly modern Sephardic Writing: the ideology and aesthetics of the poetic anthology Elogios
Orestis Tzirtzilakis
Research topicA Cultural Genealogy of Modern Greek Hysteria, 19–20th-century
Supervisor
Jacqueline Uren
Research topic‘Le théâtre et la reine’: Marie-Antoinette, Letters, and Courtly Spectacle, 1770-1789
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Lujza Vallo
Research topicMy Jewishness is my "life issue", the circumstances, the laws, the world made it so.' Jewish Assimilationist Writing in Mitteleuropa from 1980-1940.
Dana Vuckovic
Research topicThe Consecration and Canonization of Balzac as a Classic Writer: Between the Educational Institution, Adaptation and the Serialized Novel
Elly Walters
Research topicPortraits in Blue: Water and Distress in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French
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Victoria White
Research topicThe Ethics of Loyalty: decoding the loyalty gene in the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
Arthur Wotton
Research topicThe Diagnostic Novel: History, Fiction and Nationhood in the Biographical Fiction of Francisco Herrera Luque
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Alessandro Zammataro
Research topicAntonio Grifo’s Illumination as a Visual Commentary to Petrarch’s Canzoniere
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Carlo Maria Zanetti
Research topicBuilding Community through Individual Agency: The Linguistic Roots of Intersubjective Sociality in High Medieval Culture
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Jingyan Zhang
Research topicPublic Green Spaces in Parisian Literature and Art (1852-1914): Leisure, Politics, and Gender
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