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Head of Department & Chair of CMIIProfessor Claire Thomson
Director of Teaching andÌýDeputy Head of DepartmentProfessor Seb Coxon
Research Director and REF LeadÌýDr Jennifer RushworthÌý
Department ManagerRachel Anderson
Teaching and Learning ManagerRobert Bodden
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) / Athena Swan / Disability Lead

Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio
Dr Xiaofan Amy Li

Student AdvisorNosheen Aslam
Programme Directors
RoleName
Director of Comparative Literature (BA)Dr Emily Baker
Director of Comparative Literature (MA/PhD)Dr Xiaofan Amy Li
Director ofÌýCreative Critical Writing (PhD)Dr Tim Beasley-Murray
Director of Documentary-track (PhD)Professor Stephen Hart
Director of Dutch StudiesDr Hans Demeyer
Director ofÌýEarly Modern Studies (MA)Dr Matthew Symonds
Director ofÌýEarly Modern Studies (PhD)Professor Alexander Samson
Director of European Studies (MA/PhD)Dr TessaÌýHauswedell
Director of ELCS modulesAnnika Lindskog
Director of Film Studies (MA/PhD)om CunliffeÌý
DirectorÌýof French and Francophone StudiesProfessor Jane Gilbert
Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies (MA/PhD)Dr Alex HydeÌýand Dr Stefano Rossoni
Director of German StudiesDr Jeff Bowersox
Director of Health Humanities (MA/PhD)Professor Sonu ShamdasaniÌý
Director of Italian StudiesDr Cristina Massaccesi
Director of joint degree with Venice Ca'FoscariProfessor Catherine Keen
Director of Language & Culture (BA)Dr Eleanor Chiari
Director of Language, Culture & History (MA)Dr Thibaut RaboinÌý
Director of Language Pathways (PhD)Professor Sonu ShamdasaniÌý
Director ofÌýPhilosophy, Politics & Economics of Health (MA)Ìý
Director ofÌýRace, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (PhD)Ìý
Director of Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (MA)
Professor Paul GilroyÌý
Dr Luke de Noronha
Director of Scandinavian StudiesProfessor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Director of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesProfessor Alexander SamsonÌý
Director of Translation Studies (PhD)Professor Kathryn Batchelor
Director of Translation Studies (MA)Dr Olivia Cockburn
Director of Translation & Technology (MSc)Daniela Ford
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Undergraduate Admissions TutorDr Beatrice Sica
Undergraduate Tutor and Undergraduate Examinations TutorAnthony McNeill
Undergraduate Dissertation TutorDr Lucy Bollington
Postgraduate Taught Programmes TutorÌýDr Stefano Rossoni
Postgraduate Research Programmes TutorProfessor Sonu ShamdasaniÌý
PGTA TutorDr Judith Beniston
Year Abroad Tutor andÌýAffiliate TutorDr Geraldine Horan
Widening Participation and Outreach TutorÌýChristine Sas
SELCS Language TutorÌýDr Anne Grydehøj
SELCS Language TutorÌýMs Marie Fournier

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Professional Services Team
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Departmental ManagerRachel Andersonrachel.anderson@ucl.ac.uk
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Teaching and Learning ManagerRobert Boddenr.bodden@ucl.ac.uk
Student AdvisorNosheen Aslamnosheen.aslam@ucl.ac.uk
Teaching & Student Support OfficerRuthÌýAustinruth.austin@ucl.ac.uk
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Academic & Teaching Staff

Alphabetically
NameAssociated programme(s)
AÌý
Mr James AgarFrench Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ms Marina AlessandroItalian Studies
Dr Akkad AlhusseinTranslation Studies
Ms Maria José AnjosTranslation Studies
Dr Christina AndersonDaphne Jackson Senior Research Fellow
Professor Haki AntonssenEarly Modern Studies, European Studies, Scandinavian Studies
Ms Ruth AustinFrench Studies
BÌý
Dr Benjamin BâcleFrench Studies
Dr Bettina BajajÌýTranslation Studies
Dr Emily BakerComparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Rocío Baños PiñeroTranslation Studies
Professor Kathryn BatchelorTranslation Studies
Dr Judith BenistonComparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies
Dr Stephen BennettsItalian Studies
Professor Zoltan BiedermannEarly Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Stephanie BirdComparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-EscribanoSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Dr Lucy BollingtonSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies,ÌýComparative Literature, Film Studies
Dr Jeff BowersoxGerman Studies
Professor Rachel BowlbyComparative Literature
Professor Patrick BrayComparative Literature, French Studies
Miss Fiona BrewerTranslation Studies
Professor Celia BrittonFrench Studies
Professor Geraldine BrodieComparative Literature, Translation Studies
Dr Francesca Bugliani KnoxItalian Studies
Professor Bill BynumHealth Humanities
CÌý
Dr Lesley CaldwellItalian Studies
Dr Jelena CalicScandinavian Studies
Ms Olga CampofredaItalian Studies
DrÌýElettra CarboneScandinavian Studies
Ms Elsa CastroTranslation Studies
Ms Deborah ChanTranslation Studies
Professor Edward ChaneySpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Frederic ChaumeTranslation Studies
Dr Eleanor ChiariItalian Studies, Language & Culture BA
Dr Camilo Chiappe BejarÌýFilm Studies,ÌýSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
MrÌýWalid ChokhmanÌýFrench and Francophone Studies
Dr Olivia CockburnTranslation Studies
DrÌýJames ConnollyEuropean Studies, French Studies, Language Culture & History MA
Professor Seb CoxonMedieval Studies, German Studies
Dr Tom CunliffeFilm Studies
DÌý
Dr Maria Chiara D'ArgenioSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Selena DalyItalian Studies
Professor Mererid Puw DaviesGerman Studies
MsÌýRomane DecorpsÌýFrench and Francophone Studies
Dr Juliana Demartini BritoGender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Hans DemeyerComparative Literature, Dutch Studies
Dr Jean-Baptiste de VaulxFilm Studies
Professor Jorge Díaz-CintasTranslation Studies
Professor John DickieItalian Studies
Professor Alison DiduckLaws
Dr Kirsty Sinclair DootsonFilm Studies
EÌý
Professor Jo EvansComparative Literature, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
FÌý
MsÌýValentina FaelliÌýTranslation StudiesÌý
Professor Federico M. FedericiTranslation Studies
Professor Jane FenoulhetComparative Literature, Dutch Studies
Mr Diego D J Flores-JaimeSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mrs Daniela FordTranslation Studies
Dr Katharina ForsterGerman Studies
Ms Marie FournierFrench Studies
Professor Mary FulbrookGerman Studies
GÌý
Dr Barbara GarvinItalian Studies
Dr Niall GeraghtyComparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Kristin GerdesTranslation Studies
Professor Jane GilbertComparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Erin GoeresScandinavian Studies
Dr Robert GoodwinSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
DrÌýBlanca Gomez GarciaSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Lee GrievesonFilm Studies
Ms Anais GriffithsFrench Studies
Dr Anne GrydehøjScandinavian Studies
Ms Helle GulowsenTranslation Studies
HÌý
ProfessorÌýAzzedine HaddourComparative Literature, French Studies
Professor Mairéad HanrahanFrench Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Mihye HarkerTranslation Studies
Professor Stephen M. HartComparative Literature, Documentary-track PhD, Film Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Tessa HauswedellDutch Studies, European Studies
Professor Theo HermansDutch Studies, Translation Studies
Professor Mark HewitsonGerman Studies, European Studies
Ms Jessica Hinds-MingoTranslation Studies
Dr Helga Hlaðgerður LúthersdóttirScandinavian Studies
Dr Geraldine HoranGerman Studies
Dr Alex HydeGender and Sexuality Studies
IÌý
Dr Kevin InstonEuropean Studies, French Studies
JÌý
Dr Macarena Jiménez NaranjoSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Emma JonesIOE
KÌý
Ms Yuki KawaguchiTranslation Studies
Professor Catherine KeenComparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Italian Studies
Dr Maki KimuraPolitical Science
Mr Haydn KirnonSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Mr Terry KingÌý
Ms Thaïs KitaharaTranslation Studies
Dr Brian KlaasEuropean Studies
Professor Dilwyn KnoxItalian Studies
Professor Susanne KordComparative Literature, Film Studies, German Studies
Dr Mart KuldkeppEuropean Studies, Scandinavian Studies
LÌý
Health Humanities
Professor Andrew LeakFrench Studies
Dr Phil LeaskGerman Studies
Dr Christina LeeHealth Humanities
Dr Xiaofan Amy LiComparative Literature, French Studies
Dr Martin LiebscherGerman Studies, Health Humanities
Dr Tzu-yu LinTranslation Studies
Professor Claire LindsayFilm Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Annika LindskogScandinavian Studies
Dr Simon LockScience and Technology Studies
Professor Robert LumleyItalian Studies
MÌý
Dr Mouna MannaaTranslation Studies
Dr Eleni MarkouTranslation Studies
Professor Philippe MarlièreFrench Studies
Professor Deborah MartinFilm Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Lo MarshallDepartment of Geography
Dr Cristina MassaccesiFilm Studies, Italian Studies
Dr Serenella MassiddaTranslation Studies
Dr Jann MatlockComparative Literature, Film Studies, French Studies
Professor Tim MathewsComparative Literature, French Studies
MsÌýAoi MatsushimaÌýTranslation StudiesÌý
Dr Thibaut Maus De RolleyComparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, French Studies
Ms Irene MazzaItalian Studies
Dr Maria-Novella MercuriComparative Literature, Italian Studies
Ms Veronica MillerTranslation Studies
Professor Bob MillsDepartment of Art History
Ms Renata MliczakTranslation Studies
Ms Daniela MittelstadtSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Richard MoleSSEES
Dr Vicent MontaltTranslation Studies
Professor Alberto MoreirasSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Florian MussgnugComparative Literature, Italian Studies
NÌý
Dr Marga NavarreteSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Dr Mathelinda NabugodiComparative Literature
Dr Hélène Neveu KringelbachAfrican Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Marta NiccolaiItalian Studies
Dr Kristijan NikolicTranslation Studies
Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
Health Humanities
OÌý
Dr Mazal OakninSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
PÌý
Professor Enrico PalandriComparative Literature, Italian Studies
Ms Christina ParteGerman Studies
Dr Dagmar PaulusGerman Studies
Dr Adrian PearceSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Isabel Pérez LamigueiroSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mrs Ania PlankTranslation Studies
Translation Studies
Dr Tommaso PrivieroHealth Humanities
Dr Tiziana ProvvideraItalian Studies
Mr James PuchowskiScandinavian Studies
QÌý
Dr Gerdi QuistDutch Studies
RÌý
Dr Thibaut RaboinFrench Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dr Joana Rita RamalhoSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Dr Cécile RenaudFrench Studies, Translation Studies
Dr Lucia RinaldiFilm Studies, Italian Studies
Dr Annie RingFilm Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies
Professor Rachel RosenIOE
Dr Stefano RossoniGender and Sexuality Studies, Italian Studies
Ms Karine RoumetzFrench Studies
Dr Jennifer RushworthComparative Literature, French Studies
SÌý
Professor Reinier SalverdaDutch Studies
Professor Vieri Samek-LodoviciItalian Studies
Dr Lisa SampsonEarly Modern Studies, Italian Studies
Professor Alexander SamsonComparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Ms Christine SasDutch Studies
Dr Gianfranco SelgasSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Sonu ShamdasaniGerman Studies, Health Humanities
Dr Prue ShawÌýItalian Studies
Dr Claire ShihTranslation Studies
Dr Victoria ShowunmiIOE
Dr Beatrice SicaComparative Literature, Italian Studies
Dr Leah SidiHealth Humanities
French and Francophone Studies
Dr Victoria Solomonidis-HunterTranslation Studies
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Mr David StockingsTranslation Studies
Professor Jakob Stougaard-NielsenComparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da SilvaComparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Professor Martin SwalesGerman Studies
Dr Matthew SymondsEarly Modern Studies
Dr Agnieszka SzarkowskaTranslation Studies
TÌý
Dr Georgia Thomas-ParrFilm Studies
Ms Sigrid ThomsenGerman Studies
Professor Claire ThomsonFilm Studies, Scandinavian Studies
Dr Torsten ThomsenScandinavian Studies
Professor Ulrich TiedauDutch Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor John TookItalian Studies
Dr Diana Beatrix TysonÌý
UÌý
VÌý
Dr Reinier van StratenEuropean Studies, German Studies
Dr Breixo ViejoSpanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Mr Paul VincentDutch Studies
WÌý
Professor Julian WalkerDevelopment Planning Unit
Dr Caiwen WangTranslation Studies
Dr Gareth WoodComparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
French Studies
XÌý
ÌýÌý
YÌý
Dr Xine YaoEnglish Department
Mr ShakÌýYousafTranslation StudiesÌý
ZÌý
Dr Soledad ZárateTranslation Studies

By programme:

Comparative Literature
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme Director (BA)ÌýComing soon...
Dr Emily BakerÌýÌý
Programme Director (MA / PhD)ÌýÌý

Dr Xiaofan Amy Li

ÌýÌý
Academic and teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr Emily BakerÌýÌý
Dr Lucy BollingtonÌýÌý
Dr Hans DemeyerAffect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century FictionÌýÌý ÌýÌý
Dr Sonia GollanceÌýÌý
Professor Stephen M. Hart19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.Ìý
Dr Jann MatlockÌýÌý
Professor Florian MussgnugAvant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World LiteratureÌý
Dr Mathelinda NabugodiÌýÌý
Dr Hélène Neveu KringelbachEthnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational FamiliesÌý
Dr Stefano RossoniÌýÌý
Dr Jennifer RushworthÌýÌý
Professor Jakob Stougaard-NielsenComparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studiesÌý
ÌýÌýÌý
Associated staffÌýÌý
ÌýÌý
Dr Judith BenistonTranslation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre History.Ìý
Professor Stephanie BirdModern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work.Ìý
Professor Patrick BrayÌýÌý
Professor Geraldine BrodieTranslation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating SongÌý
Mr Andrew CampbellThe life and works of Paolo Antonio Foscarini (c. 1562–1616); Renaissance encyclopedism; the disputation booklet in early modern Italy; weather forecasting in southern Italy, 1560–1640.Ìý
Dr Maria Chiara D'ArgenioVisual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin AmericaÌý
Dr Niall GeraghtyÌýÌý
Professor Jane GilbertClassics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical ContextÌý
Professor Azzedine HaddourÌýÌý
Professor Catherine KeenMedieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy.Ìý
Professor Susanne KordCultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre).Ìý
Dr Tzu-yu LinEnglish > Chinese TranslationÌý
Dr Thibaut Maus De RolleyChivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; UtopiaÌý
Dr Maria-Novella MercuriEnglish and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fictionÌý
Dr Marta NiccolaiItalian (post)colonialism;ÌýMigration, Migrant literature and cinema;Ìýmulticulturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance;Ìýrace; political theatreÌý
Dr AnnaÌýPonomarevaEnglish > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation;ÌýHistory of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian FormalismÌý
Dr Joana Rita RamalhoFilm Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political CorrectnessÌý
Professor Alexander SamsonColonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural InteractionÌý
Dr Beatrice SicaComparative Literature, Italian-French; Italian Cultural History and Visual Studies; Italian Fascism; Italian Futurism, French Surrealism and European Avant-Gardes; Italian Literature and Cultural Studies; Magical Realism and Fantastic LiteratureÌý
Dr Leah SidiÌýÌý
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da SilvaComparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies;Ìý19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion historyÌý

Dr Gareth Wood

19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation.

Ìý
Emeritus professorsÌýÌý
Professor Rachel BowlbyÌýÌý
Professor Jo Evans19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space.Ìý
Professor Jane FenoulhetÌýÌý
Professor Tim Mathews20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing.Ìý
Professor Enrico PalandriPsychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); PoliticsÌý
ÌýÌýÌý
ÌýÌýÌý

Ìý

Creative Critical Writing PhD
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Professor Tim MathewsÌý(Founding Director)20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing.Ìý

Ìý

Documentary Track PhD
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Professor Stephen Hart19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.Ìý

Ìý

Dutch Studies / Low Countries Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of Dutch StudiesÌýÌýComing soon...
Dr Hans DemeyerAffect; Critical Theory; Dutch Literature; Ideology; Marxism; Queer Theory; Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century FictionÌý
Academic, teaching and research staffÌýÌý
Dr Tessa HauswedellContemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and EthnicityÌý
Professor Ulrich TiedauEuropean History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital HumanitiesÌý
Daphne Jackson Senior Research FellowÌý
Language coordinatorÌýÌý
Ms Christine SasÌýApplied linguistics and educational linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation and interpretation studies, Language, communication and culture, Language studiesÌý
Honorary staffÌýÌý
Dr Nicholas PierceyÌýÌý
Dr Gerdi QuistÌýÌý
Professor Reinier SalverdaÌýÌý
Paul VincentÌýÌý
EmeritiÌýÌý
Professor Jane FenoulhetÌýÌý
Professor Theo HermansÌýÌý

Ìý

Early Modern Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme Director (MA)ÌýComing soon...
Dr Matthew SymondsÌýÌý
Programme Director (PhD)ÌýÌý
Professor Alexander SamsonColonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural InteractionÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr Robyn AdamsÌýÌý
Professor Haki AntonssenIcelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and SocietyÌý
Professor Zoltan BiedermannCartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel LiteratureÌý
Mr Andrew CampbellThe life and works of Paolo Antonio Foscarini (c. 1562–1616); Renaissance encyclopedism; the disputation booklet in early modern Italy; weather forecasting in southern Italy, 1560–1640.Ìý
Seb Coxon

Gender and masculinities; beards, hair and baldness as literary and iconographic motifs; comedy and cultures of laughter; early modern jokes and joke-books; fools and folly

Ìý
ÌýÌýÌý
Professor Jane GilbertÌýClassics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical ContextÌý
ÌýÌýÌý
Professor Catherine KeenMdieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval Italy.Ìý
ÌýÌý
Thibaut Maus de Rolley

Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; Utopia.

Ìý
ÌýÌý
Dr Lisa SampsonCultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's WritingÌý
Professor Ulrich TiedauEuropean History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital HumanitiesÌý
ÌýÌý

Ìý

European Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Dr Tessa HauswedellContemporary Anglophone; Cultural Studies and Theory; European Integration; German Literature; Migration; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Digital Humanities; European Integration and Identity; Nationalism and EthnicityÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr Haki AntonssonIcelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and SocietyÌý
James ConnollyWorld War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War IIÌý
Professor Mark HewitsonEuropean Integration;Ìý Globalisation; Historical Theory;Ìý19th and 20th century German history; nationalism in Europe from the 18th century to the present; the First World War; war and society in Germany since the Napoleonic wars; German social and political thought; the history of European integration; visual history, intellectual and comparative history.Ìý
Kevin Inston

Esposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe;ÌýRousseau, Ìý20th Century Political thought and Philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Lefort et al) with a particular emphasis on democracy, community and equality.Ìý

Ìý
Brian KlaasDemocracy; African Politics; American Politics; Authoritarian Populism; Authoritarianism; Civil Wars; Côte d'Ivoire; Coups d'Etat; Democracy Promotion; Democratisation; Dictatorship; Disinformation; Donald Trump; Election Rigging; Elections; International Diplomacy; Madagascar; US Foreign Policy; Political Violence; Political Campaigns; Thailand; TunisiaÌý
Dr Mart KuldkeppBaltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War IÌý
Reinier van StratenÌýÌý
Professor Ulrich TiedauEuropean History; Cultural and Social History of War; History of Pacifism and the European Movement; Nationalism and Internationalism; Digital History; Digital HumanitiesÌý

Ìý

Film Studies
NameResearch interestsÌýPhD supervisor
Core staffÌýÌýComing soon...
Professor Lee GrievesonCensorship; Culture (Liberal and Neo-Liberal Cultures); Data-Mining; Documentary; Imperialism; Media and Political Economy; Media History; Media Industries; Militant/Radical Media; Surveillance Capitalism; Early Cinema; Media and Imperialism; US Cinema/Media History; Political MediaÌýÌý
Programme DirectorÌýÌýÌý

Dr Tom Cunliffe

Chinese-language cinemas (especially on Hong Kong film history, Taiwan cinema, contemporary Hong Kong-Mainland co-productions, independent Chinese cinema)Ìý
Hong Kong Studies; Political Cinema;ÌýClassical Hollywood; Film History; The Cold War; Film Censorship; Asian Cinema; Cultural Studies; Transnational Studies; MelodramaÌýFilm; Festival Studies.

ÌýÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌýÌý
Dr Emily BakerÌýÌýÌý
Professor Stephanie BirdModern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work.ÌýÌý
Dr Lucy BollingtonÌýÌýÌý
Dr Camilo Chiappe BejarÌýÌýÌý
Dr Maria Chiara D'ArgenioVisual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin AmericaÌýÌý
Dr Jean-Baptiste de VaulxÌýAssociate Lecturer (Teaching) in Film and MediaÌýÌý
Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson19th and 20th-century british visual culture, material and technical histories of art and film, colour media.ÌýÌý
Professor Stephen Hart19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.ÌýÌý
Professor Susanne KordCultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre).ÌýÌý
Dr Helene Neveu KringelbachEthnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational FamiliesÌýÌý
Professor Claire Lindsay19th and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America, 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film, Latino Studies, migration, mobility and space.ÌýÌý
ProfessorÌýClaire Thomson ÌýDocumentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow CinemaÌýÌý
Dr Cristina MassaccesiTranslation Studies; Adaptation; Film Studies; Genre Studies; Graphic Novels and Comics; Sequential Art; Popular Culture; Twentieth-Century Century Italian Literature and CinemaÌýÌý
Professor Deborah MartinLatin American cinema, women's filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities.ÌýÌý
Dr Jann MatlockÌýÌýÌý
Dr Lucia RinaldiContemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and CinemaÌýÌý
Dr Annie RingCritical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance StudiesÌýÌý
Dr Georgia Thomas-ParrFeminism and Gender; Youth, Girlhood and Coming-of-Age; Cosplay, Anime Fandom and Subcultures relating to Japanese Popular Culture and Media (esp. Maid Cafés); Audiovisual Essay-Making; Sociology and Cultural Anthropology; Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking; Decolonisation and Depatriarchalisation; Global and Transnational Cinema.ÌýÌý
Emeritus professorsÌýÌýÌý
Professor Jo Evans19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space.ÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý

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French and Francophone Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of French StudiesÌýComing soon...

Professor Jane Gilbert

Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical Context

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Language coordinatorsÌýÌý
Ms Marie FournierÌýÌý
Academic and teaching staffÌýÌý
Mr James AgarQueer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer CinemaÌý
Ms Ruth AustinCocteau; Dystopias/Utopias; Vichy France; World War I; World War II Occupation FranceÌý
Dr Benjamin BâcleBritish and French Romanticism; French Eclecticism; French Personalism; French Revolution; French Political Thought Since 1789; Jeremy Bentham; Utilitarianism/Anti-UtilitarianismÌý
Professor Patrick BrayÌýÌýÌý
Dr James ConnollyWorld War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War IIÌý

Dr Thibaut Maus De Rolley

Chivalric Fiction; Comparative Literature, French; Dreams, Delusions and Illusions; Early Modern Studies; History of Science; Magic, Demonology and Witchcraft; Travel Writing; UtopiaÌý
Anais GriffithsÌýÌý
ProfessorÌýAzzedine HaddourÌýÌý
Professor Mairéad HanrahanContemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction.Ìý
Dr Kevin InstonEsposito; Foucault; Laclau & Mouffe;ÌýRousseau, Ìý20th Century Political thought and Philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Lefort et al) with a particular emphasis on democracy, community and equality.ÌýÌý
Dr Xiaofan Amy LiÌýÌý
Professor Philippe Marlière

Antisemitism; Multiculturalism; French and European Politics; Immigration, Integration and Citizenship; Islamaphobia; Political Ideologies; Populism; Racism;ÌýFrench sociology (Pierre Bourdieu); France and the European Union.

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Dr Jann MatlockÌýÌý
Dr Thibaut RaboinAsylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; QueerÌý
Dr Cécile RenaudÌýÌý
Karine RoumetzÌýÌý
Dr Jennifer RushworthMusic; Translation; Medievalism; Mourning; Reception; TheoryÌý
Contemporary French Theatre; Urban Literature and Art; Paris; French Film; Theory, with particular interests in Media Theory, Hospitality, Ecology, BiopoliticsÌý
French Lecteurs/LectricesÌýÌý
Mr Walid ChokhmanÌýÌý
MsÌýRomane DecorpsÌýÌýÌý
Emeritus and Honorary AppointmentsÌýÌý
Professor Celia BrittonÌýÌý
Professor Andrew LeakÌýÌý
Professor Tim Mathews20th / 21st century French Literature; comparative literature and comparative approaches; French poetry from Baudelaire to the present; Avant-Garde Aesthetics, 1900-1945; Guillaume Apollinaire, Aimé Césaire, Michel Houellebecq; issues of the imaginary in critical theory; relations of literature and visual art; translation; art writing, creative critical writing.Ìý

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ÌýHonorary Senior Research FellowÌý
Dr Diana Beatrix TysonÌýÌý
In MemoriamÌýÌý
Dr Roland-François Lack:Ìýan obituary for a much missed colleagueÌýÌý
Gender and Sexuality Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Dr Alex HydeCritical Security Studies; Ethnography; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Theory; MilitarisationÌý
Dr Stefano RossoniÌýÌý
Core academic staffÌýÌý
Dr Thibaut RaboinAsylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; QueerÌý
Dr Juliana Demartini BritoÌýÌýÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌý
Mr James AgarQueer Theory; Contemporary French Fiction; Gay Studies HIV/AIDS (Cultures of); Modern French Fiction; Queer CinemaÌý
Dr Judith BenistonTranslation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre HistoryÌý
Dr Hans DemeyerÌýÌý
Professor Alison DiduckÌýÌý

Professor Jane Gilbert

Classics, Reception of (Antigone and classical tragedy, metamorphosis, Narcissus and Echo, Ovid); Historiography, Especially Relating to Legendary History; Literary Forms in Movement and in Translation; Medieval Literature in French and English, 11th to 15th Centuries; Premodern Literature and Culture and Critical Theories (Encounters Between), including: Posthuman, Queer, Feminism, Gender, Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Developments, especially Žižek; Translation in Historical ContextÌý
Professor Mairéad HanrahanContemporary French literature and literary theory, including issues relating to gender, genre, deconstruction.Ìý
Dr Emma JonesÌýÌý
Dr Maki KimuraÌýÌý
Tribute to Dr Philippa Hetherington (SSEES)Ìý
Dr Simon LockÌýÌý
Dr Lo MarshallÌýÌý
Professor Deborah MartinLatin American cinema, women's filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities.Ìý
Professor Bob MillsÌýÌý
Professor Richard MoleÌýÌý
Hélène Neveu KringelbachEthnography; African Migrations; Anthropology; Dance and Music; Film (Francophone and African); Gender in Africa; Performance; Photography (African); West Africa; Transnational FamiliesÌý
Annie RingCritical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance StudiesÌý
Dr Jordana RamalhoÌýÌý
Prof Rachel RosenÌýÌý
Dr Victoria ShowunmiÌýÌý
Dr Leah SidiÌýÌý

Professor Julian Walker

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Dr Xine YaoÌýÌý
Postgraduate Teaching AssistantsÌýÌýÌý
Luisa Boada BayonaÌýÌý
Arthur DavisÌýÌý
Ella RossmanÌýÌý
Emeritus StaffÌýÌý
Professor Ann VarleyÌýÌý
Professor Jane FenoulhetÌýÌý
German Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of German StudiesÌýComing soon...

Dr Jeff Bowersox

Colonialism; Migration; Modern German history, German colonial culture and practice; the history of nationalism; the history of youth; the black diaspora in the German-speaking lands; American-German entanglements; race and popular culture; and cultural approaches to the history of the Kaiserreich.Ìý
Language coordinatorÌýÌý
Dr Dagmar PaulusGerman Realism; Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesÌý
Academic and teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr Judith BenistonTranslation; Austrian Literature, Culture and History; Comparative Literature (Especially Drama); German Literature Since 1750; Literature and Age Studies; Literature and Medicine; Theatre HistoryÌý
Professor Stephanie BirdModern literature and literary theory, German film, the representation of history in literature and film, gender in literature and film, national identity, shame, melodrama and comedy, interdisciplinary and comparative work.Ìý
Professor Seb Coxon

Gender and masculinities; beards, hair and baldness as literary and iconographic motifs; comedy and cultures of laughter; early modern jokes and joke-books; fools and folly

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Professor Mererid Puw DaviesFairy tales (Märchen) and fantastic literature and film; 20th and 21st century German literature, culture and film, cultural history, literature and film of the Federal Republic of Germany and the culture of the West German protest movements of the 1960s; comparative approaches, and poetry.Ìý
Professor Mary Fulbrook20th century German social and political history, the Third Reich and GDR, inter-disciplinary, transnational and comparative approaches.Ìý
Professor Mark HewitsonEuropean Integration;Ìý Globalisation; Historical Theory;Ìý19th and 20th century German history; nationalism in Europe from the 18th century to the present; the First World War; war and society in Germany since the Napoleonic wars; German social and political thought; the history of European integration; visual history, intellectual and comparative history.Ìý
Dr Geraldine HoranSociolinguistics; History of the Language; Language and Ideology; Political Linguistics; Discourse analysis, political discourse, gender and language, language and National Socialism, nationalist discourse, far-right discourse, and taboo language (e.g. cursing and swearing).Ìý
Professor Susanne KordCultural History and Reception; 18th and 19th Century German Literature; Film (Hollywood Movies, Particularly Genre Films); Popular Representations of Gender (Particularly in Film); Pre 20th Century Ideas of Gender and Crime (Both Crime Stories and Actual Cases); Women's Literature (Particularly Theatre).Ìý
Dr Martin Liebscher19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature.Ìý
Christina ParteÌýÌý
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Dr Annie Ring Critical Data Studies; Culture (Modern German Culture and Thought); Documentary; Essay Film and Video Art; Feminist Theory; Film; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Surveillance StudiesÌý
Professor Sonu ShamdasaniPsychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; PsychiatryÌý
Dr Reinier van StratenÌýÌý
Ms Sigrid ThomsenÌýÌý
LektorinnenÌýÌý
Dr Katharina ForsterÌýÌý
Honorary and Emeritus staffÌýÌý
Dr Phil LeaskÌýÌý
Professor Martin SwalesÌýÌý
Health Humanities / Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌý(Health Humanities)ÌýComing soon...
Professor Sonu ShamdasaniPsychoanalysis; Continental Philosophy; History of Medicine; History of Psychology; Intellectual History; PsychiatryÌý
Programme DirectorÌý(Philosophy, Politics & Economics of Health)ÌýÌý
Dr Leah SidiÌýÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌý
DrÌýMartin Liebscher19th and 20th Century German philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, the history of the unconscious, the history of psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, C.G. Jung studies), and twentieth Century Austrian literature.Ìý
Emeritus staff and Honorary appointmentsÌýÌý
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Dr Christina LeeÌýÌý
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Dr Tommaso PrivieroÌýÌý
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Italian Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of Italian StudiesÌýComing soon...
DrÌýCristina MassaccesiFilm Studies, Sequential Art, Animation Cinema, Italian Cinema, Film Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Japanese Anime and Manga, Translation Studies, Contemporary Fiction and FanfictionÌý
Language coordinatorÌýÌý
Dr Lucia RinaldiContemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and CinemaÌý
Academic and teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr Marina AlessandroItalian Language, Translation Studies, Language Teaching and Acquisition, SociolinguisticsÌý
Dr Eleanor ChiariCultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual CultureÌý
Dr Selena DalyItalian StudiesÌý
Professor John DickieBanditry and Brigandage; Freemasonry and Fraternalism; Italian Food; Italian History Since Unification; Italian Literature 1860-1925; Italian Opera in the 19th Century; Mafia; Nationalism and National Identity in Italy; Natural Disasters; Organised Crime; Southern ItalyÌý
Professor Catherine KeenMdieval Italian literary and cultural topics; Dante; the vernacular lyric from the Sicilians to Petrarch; the works of Brunetto Latini; medieval translation and reception of the classics (Cicero and Ovid); pilgrimage, exile, and other forms of mobility and displacement in medieval ItalyÌý
Irene MazzaÌýÌý
Dr Maria-Novella MercuriEnglish and American Literature, New Woman literature, Shakespeare, German History of Culture, Comparative Literature, Italian Renaissance art, Italian crime fictionÌý
Professor Florian MussgnugAvant-Garde; Catastrophe; Ecocriticism; English; German; Italian; Modernism; Posthumanism; Postmodernism; Science Fiction; World LiteratureÌý
Dr Lucia RinaldiContemporary Literature and Film Studies; Crime Fiction and Film; Genre Theory; Political and Historical Fiction; Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and CinemaÌý
Dr Stefano RossoniÌýÌý
Professor Vieri Samek-LodoviciDialect (Grammar, History, etc); Grammar (of a Language or Theory of grammar); Information Structure (Focus, Topichood, Givenness); Phonology (of a Language or Interesting Phonological Phenomenon); Syntax (of a Language or Interesting Syntactic Phenomenon); Language Acquisition (Study of How Language is Acquired by Children); Language Grammar (Syntax and/or Prosody of a Language or Dialect); Linguistics (Study of a Specific Theory in Linguistics or Grammatical Aspect of a Language; Prosody/Intonation (of a Language or Interesting Prosodic Phenomenon)Ìý
Dr Lisa SampsonCultural Networks; Italian Literature; Renaissance Art History; Renaissance Culture and History (Especially Italy); Theatre and Performance; Women's WritingÌý
Dr Beatrice SicaAvant-gardes (Futurism Dada, Surrealism); Italian literature and art during Fascism; magical realism and fantastic literature; poetry; cultural exchanges between Italy and other countries, particularly France and the United States of AmericaÌý
Postgraduate teaching assistantsÌýÌý
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Lettore /ÌýLettriceÌýÌý
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Emeritus Professors & Honorary AppointmentsÌýÌý
Dr Stephen BennettsÌýÌý
Dr Francesca Bugliani KnoxÌýÌý
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DrÌýCarlotta Ferrara degli UbertiÌýÌý
Dr Barbara GarvinÌýÌý
Professor Dilwyn KnoxÌýÌý

Professor Robert Lumley

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Dr Marta NiccolaiItalian (post)colonialism;ÌýMigration, Migrant literature and cinema;Ìýmulticulturalism; Refugee and migrant contemporary theatre and performance;Ìýrace; political theatreÌý
Professor Enrico PalandriPsychoanalysis; Early Psychoanalysis; Italian and Other European Authors; Novels and Politics; Twentieth-Century Writing (Poetry and Other Narratives); PoliticsÌý
Dr Tiziana ProvvideraÌýÌý
Dr Prue ShawÌýÌýÌý
Professor John Took

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Language & Culture BA
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Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Dr Eleanor ChiariCultural Studies; Film; Italian and French; Memory Studies; Museum Studies; Twentieth-Century Italian History; Visual CultureÌý
Language, Culture & History MA
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Dr Thibaut RaboinAsylum; Deindustrialisation; Nationhood; Noir Literature; Political Emotions; QueerÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr James ConnollyWorld War I; Collaboration; Memory; Military Occupation; Modern French History (1789-Present); Modern European History; Nationalism and Identity; Occupier-Occupied Relations; Resistance; Twentieth-Century France; Twentieth-Century War; War, Culture and Society; World War IIÌý
Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Programme DirectorÌýComing soon...
Professor Tariq JazeelÌýÌý
Admissions TutorÌýÌý
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Teaching staffÌýÌý
Scandinavian Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of Scandinavian StudiesÌýComing soon...
Professor Jakob Stougaard-NielsenComparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studiesÌý
Language coordinator (Danish / Norwegian / Swedish)ÌýÌý
Dr Anne GrydehøjComparative Literature; Crime Fiction; Culture (Scandinavian Language and Culture); Identity and Intersectionality; Mediatisation; Minority Languages and LiteraturesÌý
Language coordinator (Icelandic / Old Norse)ÌýÌý
Dr Helga Hlaðgerður LúthersdóttirCinematic Representations of Race/Class/Gender/Sexual Orientations; Culture (Nordic Culture); Culture (Popular Culture); Film (Hollywood Cinema); Film (Nordic Film); Folk Narratives and Fairy Tales; Nordic Literature; Post-Colonialism; SuperheroesÌý
Academic and teaching staffÌýÌý
Professor Haki AntonssonIcelandic History and Literature; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Medieval Scandinavian History; Scandinavian and Europe, AD 500-1500; Scandinavian Literature AD 800-1500; Uses of the Middle Ages in the Present; Viking History and SocietyÌý
Dr Jelena CalicCritical language pedagogy; language contact and variation; multilingualism and standard language ideologies in Easter Europe and in the Nordic region; migration and discourses of integration in the Nordic regionÌý
DrÌýElettra CarboneNordic Literature; Travel Literature; Mobility Studies; Museum Studies; North/South of Europe; Representations of National Identities in Literature (Imagology); Remediation of Visual Arts in Literature; Translation (Between Scandinavian Languages and Italian or English)Ìý
Dr Erin GoeresAssociate ProfessorÌý
Dr Mart KuldkeppBaltic History; Cold War; Interwar Period; Scandinavian History; Scandinavian Politics; World War IÌý
Annika LindskogCultural History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Nationalism; Culture (Nordic Cultural Topics); Landscapes; Music; Swedish Language Related Topics; TranslationÌý
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James PuchowskiSociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, ethnography, Norwegian Nynorsk, minority languages, language activismÌý
ProfessorÌýJakob Stougaard-NielsenComparative literature; Scandinavian literature; authorship studies; climate fiction; health humanities; 19th century literature; folk- and fairy tales; Hans Christian Andersen studies, Henry James studies; English and American literature after 1800; crime fiction; cultural studies; visual culture studies; book and publishing studiesÌý
Professor Claire ThomsonDocumentary; Film and Public Health; Film Institutions; Multisensory Cinema; Nordic Cinema; Public Information Film; Short Films; Unrealised Films; Slow CinemaÌý
Emeritus Professors & Honorary AppointmentsÌýÌý
Dr Torsten ThomsenComparative Literature, Danish Romanticism, Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tale Studies, World LiteratureÌý
Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American StudiesÌýComing soon...

Professor Alexander Samson

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Language coordinators (Spanish)ÌýÌý
Dr Marga NavarreteAudio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website LocalisationÌý
Dr Mazal OakninÌýÌý
Language coordinator (Portuguese)ÌýÌý
Dr Joana Rita RamalhoFilm Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political CorrectnessÌý
Academic and teaching staffÌýÌý
Dr Emily BakerÌýÌý
Professor Zoltán BiedermannCartography; Comparative Literature; Diplomacy; Global Connections; History; Portuguese Empire; Travel LiteratureÌý
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-EscribanoLiterary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation DidacticsÌý
Dr Lucy BollingtonÌýÌý
DrÌýCamilo Chiappe BejarÌýÌý
Dr Maria Chiara D'ArgenioVisual culture; magazines and print culture; Latin American cinema (early and contemporary), photography and art; race and ethnicity; indigeneity; nation and citizenship; decoloniality; connections between Italy and Latin AmericaÌý
Mr Diego D J Flores-JaimeÌýÌý
Dr Niall GeraghtyÌýÌý
DrÌýBlanca Gomez GarciaÌýÌý
Professor Stephen Hart19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film and documentary.Ìý
Dr Macarena Jiménez NaranjoBiographical Studies; Comparative Literature; European Modernism; Linguistics in Foreign Languages Teaching; Literature of Exile and Counter-Exile; Teaching Foreign Languages; Twentieth-Century Spanish/Spanish American Literature and CultureÌý
Mr Haydn KirnonÌýÌý
Professor Claire Lindsay19th and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America, 19th and 20th-century Spanish-American literature, Latin American film, Latino Studies, migration, mobility and space.Ìý
Professor Deborah MartinLatin American cinema, women's filmmaking, Lucrecia Martel. Gender, queer and feminist approaches. Eco-activism in Latin American film and visual arts. Environmental arts and humanities.Ìý
Ms Daniela MittelstadtÌýÌý
Dr Adrian PearceSpanish colonial policy in the Americas and its outcomes in the long 18th century; British relations with Latin America, also primarily in the 18th century, and with a particular focus on trade; and the native peoples of the Andes in the 19th and 20th centuries.Ìý
Ms Isabel Pérez LamigueiroÌýÌý
Dr Joana Rita RamalhoFilm Musicals; Gender Politics in Film/TV/Music; Gothic; Intermedial Performance Practices; Mental Illness; Neo-Victorianism in Film/TV; Sensorial Memory; Radical Humour and Political CorrectnessÌý
Professor Alexander SamsonColonial History of the Americas; Culture and History of Early Modern England and Spain; Golden Age Theatre and Lope de Vega; Literature; Novel and Cervantes; Translation and Intercultural InteractionÌý
Dr Ana Claudia Suriani da SilvaComparative Literature; Genetic Criticism; Lusophone Literature; Periodical Studies; Translation Studies;Ìý19th century Brazilian literature, book and fashion historyÌý
Dr Gianfranco SelgasEnvironmental and energy humanities, cultural studies, and the relationship between culture and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Late-19th, 20th, and 21st century Latin American and Caribbean cultural production and politics engaging with exctractivism to studies on critical theory and material culture with a world-ecological perspective.

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Dr Gareth Wood19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, the novel of the Restoration period in Spain, contemporary Spanish fiction/translation.Ìý
Emeritus Professors & Honorary Research AssociatesÌýÌý
Professor Edward ChaneyÌýÌý
Maria DarnleyÌýÌý
Professor Jo Evans19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, Spanish film, migration, mobility and space.Ìý
Professor Evelyn FishburnÌýÌý
Dr Robert GoodwinÌýÌý
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Dr Breixo ViejoÌýÌý
Translation Studies (CenTraS)
NameResearch interestsPhD supervisor?
Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS)Ìý&
Programme DirectorÌý(PhD)
ÌýComing soon...
Professor Kathryn BatchelorAfrica-China Relations; Francophone literature (African, Caribbean, North African); Frantz Fanon; Postcolonial Studies; Translation (Literary Translation - French and German if a Practical Element is Involved); Translation History; Translation TheoryÌý
Programme Director (MA)ÌýÌý
Dr Olivia CockburnÌýÌý
Programme Director (MSc)ÌýÌý
Mrs Daniela FordÌýÌý
Academic staffÌýÌý
Dr Rocío Baños PiñeroÌýÌý
Dr Alejandro Bolaños García-EscribanoEnglish > Spanish Subtitling;ÌýLiterary Translation (Spanish-English-French); Revoicing (Dubbing-Voiceover); Subtitling; Translation (Audiovisual-Multimedia Translation); Translation (Professional Translation); Translatology-Translation Studies; Translator Training-Translation DidacticsÌý
Professor Geraldine BrodieTranslation History; Adaptation; Feminist Approaches to Translation; Literary Publishing Systems; Literary translation; London Theatre; Performance; Theatre Translation; Translating SongÌý
Professor Jorge Díaz-CintasAudio Description; Dubbing; Subtitling; Translation Technology; Translation Theory; Voiceover; Access to the Media; Fan Dubbing; Fan Subbing; Practical Translation English Into SpanishÌý
ProfessorÌýÌýFederico M. FedericiCrisis Translation; Eye-Tracking Translation Research; Language Mediators in CrisesÌý
Dr Claire ShihTranslation and Interpreting Studies; Translation Process Research; Web Search in TranslationÌý
Dr Xiaochun ZhangEnglish > Chinese Translation; Game localisation, Game Accessibility, Fan Audiovisual Translation, Translation Technology, Practical Translation English to ChineseÌýÌý
Teaching staffÌýÌý
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Ms Maria José AnjosEnglish > Portuguese SubtitlingÌý
Ms Jacqueline BallGerman > EnglishÌý
Dr Bettina BajajLanguage and AutomationÌý
Miss Fiona BrewerFrench > EnglishÌý
Ms Deborah ChanEnglish > Chinese Subtitling, Voiceover & DubbingÌý
Dr Olivia CockburnSpanish > EnglishÌý
Ms Angela DicksonFrench > EnglishÌý
MsÌýValentina FaelliÌýEnglish > ItalianÌý
Mrs Daniela FordTranslation Technology, Machine Translation, English > German Medical, Scientific & Technical TranslationÌý
Ms Kristin GerdesEnglish > German Subtitling, Voiceover & DubbingÌý
Ms Ramona Gonczol

English > Romanian

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Ms Helle GulowsenEnglish > Norwegian Scientific & Technical TranslationÌý
Dr Mihye HarkerEnglish > Korean Subtitling, Medical, Scientific & Technical TranslationÌý
Ms Jessica Hinds-MingoSpanish > EnglishÌý
Ms Yuki KawaguchiEnglish > Japanese Medical TranslationÌý
Ms Thaïs KitaharaEnglish > Brazilian Portuguese SubtitlingÌý
Dr Tzu-yu LinEnglish > Chinese TranslationÌý
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Dr Mouna MannaaEnglish> ArabicÌýÌý
Dr Eleni MarkouEnglish > Greek Medical, Scientific & Technical TranslationÌý
MsÌýAoi MatsushimaEnglish > JapaneseÌý
Ms Veronica MillerEnglish>Russian Interpreting, Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover and Dubbing, Culture, History and EconomicsÌý
Ms Renata MliczakEnglish > Polish Subtitling, Voiceover & DubbingÌý
Dr Vicent MontaltEnglish > Spanish Medical TranslationÌý
Dr Marga NavarreteEnglish > Spanish Scientific & Technical Translation;ÌýAudio Description; Language Learning; Spanish; Translation; Website Accessibility; Website LocalisationÌý
Mrs Ania PlankEnglish > Polish Medical TranslationÌý
English > Russian Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation;ÌýHistory of Ideas; Literature and Music; Russian Symbolism; Translation (Practical Translation English into Russian); Translation History; Translation Theory; Russian FormalismÌý
Dr Cécile RenaudEnglish > French Medical, Scientific & Technical Translation, Subtitling, Voiceover & DubbingÌý
Dr Victoria Solomonidis-HunterLanguage and TranslationÌý
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