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Doctoral researchers in Modern Languages

The Department of Modern Languages has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below:

  • Ella Elhoudiri

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Unusual places and exceptional people: women, minorities and the self in the travel accounts of non-colonial.

  • Johanna Kreft

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Beyond 'colonial amnesia': decolonising German institutional memory through transformative social activism.

  • Gitanjali Patel

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Translation as a critical pedagogy.

  • Xinbei Wang

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Architecture, quasi-Colonialism and politics: a micro-history of the British Consulate in Wen-Chow.

  • Yordanka Dimcheva

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Urban terrorism in France (2015-2020): trauma, memory and the transmission of affect.

  • Ali Alqahtani

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Assessing the relevance of Saudi undergraduates' translation competence to the requirements of the Saudi translation market.

  • Benjamin Griffiths

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: In the afterglow of the Novelas ejemplares: censorship, exemplarity, canonicity and 'Golden Age' in 17th and 18th-century Spanish exemplary short ...

  • Gurbax Matoo

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: A comparative study of south Asian and white women child murderers in the UK.

  • Ivete Houer Milton

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Teaching and learning the subjunctive in Portuguese as a second language.

  • Abdulhady Alroiei

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Translating Salhi's 'Occidentalism' from English into Arabic followed by translation commentary.