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I am Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and a specialist in interdisciplinary sexuality and gender studies, critical theory, and the history of diagnostic and cultural concepts. My enduring research interest is in questions of exceptionality, difficulty, and (ab)normality as they are represented and understood in cultural, medical, and political fields. My most recent work has been on ...

My research interests focus on the relationship between social and political inequalities and German culture in the period between 1750 and 1850. I have a particular interest in outsider figures, and above all the work of J.M.R. Lenz and Heinrich von Kleist. I have recently published a monograph on German-language pastoral writing, and am currently working on projects on the ...

I am a specialist of Francophone Studies and World Literature, with a particular interest in the global reception, adaptation circulation and translation of Francophone literature. A published translator, with a growing body of work in Translation Studies, I am fluent in French and German, and am currently learning Spanish.

The majority of my research focuses on the postcolonial literature, film ...

My work is on French film and the visual arts, film and feminist theory and philosophy, and sexuality and gender.

My work focuses on the relationships between text and performance - particularly but not exclusively of Shakespeare’s plays - in their social and intellectual context and in a wide range of media. I am currently engaged in studies of the representation of the theatre in the other arts.

My research is informed by (and informs) my work in professional theatre and film.

With an academic grounding in American and Canadian Studies, and professional experience of television and film production, I am interested in multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research. In particular, I am keen to develop a fusion of theory and practise by way of a multifaceted audio-visual academia that can function as a versatile teaching tool, and as a mode of publication and ...

My research interests spread across Russophone literature, translation studies, post-Soviet media culture and genre studies. My latest monograph is focused on collaborative self-translation drawing on the bilingual work of the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky (see my monograph publication Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Translation).

Currently, I am working on the project ...

I am primarily interested in what we think Romans thought about themselves (as reflected in texts), how they conceptualized themselves as a people, and responded to (and were shaped by) the world they lived in.

I enjoy investigating how identity and cultural politics are manifest through narratives emphasising space, territory, cultivation of place, and ethos. I research authors and texts ...

I research and teach film and television aesthetics. My work involves close reading and, particularly, I am interested in the relationship between this critical practice and questions of value and achievement.

PhD Title:  Historicizing Global Hispanophone Fiction: Hispanidad and Representations of Otherness in Colonial Equatorial Guinea
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sèbe and Dr Monica Jato
PhD Comparative Literature

PhD Title: A linguistic analysis of humour theories in satirical political articles written by two famous Arab female authors
Supervisor: Dr Anissa Daoudi 
PhD Italian Studies

PhD Title: The Economic Crisis on the Big Screen: the Italian Era of Precarity
Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Ross and Professor Rob Stone
PhD Italian Studies

PhD title: Indigenous African Literature: Translating Amharic Fiction
Supervisors: Dr Louise Hardwick
PhD Translation Studies Practice-Based

PhD title: Belief and Social Media
Supervisors:  Dr Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Dr Merten Reglitz
PhD Philosophy

PhD Title: Linguistic Landscapes, Sanctuary and Integration: The Riace Model
Supervisors: Dr Alice Corr and Professor Nando Sigona
PhD Modern Languages

PhD Title: Remembering the Future: the (re-)construction of memory, the past, and the future in the nineteenth-century Spanish short story 
Supervisors: Dr Monica Jato and Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
PhD Hispanic Studies

PhD title: The Museum
Supervisor: Dr Isabel Galleymore and Professor John Holmes

PhD Creative Writing

Thesis title: Sunlight and Terror: Mapping the characteristic contours of folk horror in British screen texts
Supervisor: Dr James Walters
PhD Film Studies

PhD Title: Analyzing Gender and Sexuality in Slash Fanfictions: A Comparative Study between Italian and Anglophone Literature
Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Ross and Dr Elliot Evans
PhD Italian Studies

PhD title: Interrelation between Film, Philosophy and Anti-Realism in Scandinavian Cinema (as a representative case study)
Supervisor: Professor Rob Stone and Dr Richard Langley

PhD Film Studies

PhD Title: A comparison of novels about WW1 published in the interwar period and after 1990
Supervisors: Nicholas Martin and Elystan Griffiths 

PhD Title:  Rethinking Impegno: Emotion in Italian Cinema on Migration
Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Ross, Professor Rob Stone and Dr Alaina Schempp
PhD Modern Languages

PhD title: Where did they bury the ethics?:  A study of the ethics within contemporary true crime documentary.
Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley, Dr Merten Reglitz and Professor Rob Stone
PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual

PhD title: On Ambiguity: A study into the craft and authors of gender-queer and androgynous narratives in contemporary western literature.
Supervisor: Dr Anna Metcalfe
PhD Creative Writing

PhD Title: The Visual Culture of Fourth Wave Feminism on Social Media
Supervisors: Dr Elliot Evans and Dr Gregory Salter
PhD Modern Languages

PhD Title: ‘An Englishman without techyng can not speake the words of an Ytalyan’: Italian language learning during the reign of Henry VIII
PhD Modern Languages

PhD title: Veritas Aequitas: The Ethics of Adapting Nineteenth Century Literary History into Narrative Forms
Supervisors: Dr Richard House and Dr Luke Kennard
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Erebo: A narrative and critical exploration of representations of a queer underground in South America as a revolutionary space, a postcolonial space, and a gendered space
Supervisor: Dr Dan Vyleta

PhD Creative Writing

PhD Title:  (Re)Imagination: Disrupting dominant discourses of identity in Brazilian and Hispanic Caribbean speculative fiction.
Supervisors: Dr Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos and Dr Elliot Evans
PhD Hispanic Studies

PhD Title: The Desert in Algerian Identity: a Literary Perspective
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sèbe and Dr Anissa Daoudi
PhD Modern Languages