Doctoral researchers in Modern Languages

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: A Comprehensive Approach to the Translation of Figures of Comparison in Contemporary Self-Help Genre 

Supervisors: Dr Emma Tyler and Dr Sofia Malamatidou

 

PhD Title: English Translation of Traditional Chinese Medical Classic Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: A Corpus-based Pragmatic Study 

Supervisors: Dr Sofia Malamatidou, Dr Emma Tyler and Dr Nicholas Groom

 

PhD Title: Understanding Translation as a Site of Contact-Induced Language Change in the Field of Migration 

Supervisors: Dr Sofia Malamatidou and Dr Aleksandra Cavoski

 

Phd title: The translation of dialects: Atzeni’s language in English and French
Supervisors: Dr Emma Tyler and Paola Cori
PhD in Modern Languages

PhD Title: An Interdisciplinary dialogue between cinema and its posters: Italy 1945-1979
Supervisors: Dr Clodagh Brook and Dr Lara Pucci(University of Nottingham)
PhD Italian Studies

I completed my BA in Science and Technology of Art at the University of Palermo in 2009. Subsequently, I obtained my MA in History of Art cum laudeat the University of Siena, in 2012, under the ...

Phd title: A synchronic screenshot of ‘in-tune’ cultures – investigating song translation in Italian dubbed Animated Musical Comedies
Supervisor: Prof. Helen Abbott and Dr. Emma Tyler
PhD in Modern Languages (Translation)

PhD Title: Post independence disillusionment with African Politics: Postcolonial Francophone literary voices

Supervisors: Dr Berny Sebe 
PhD French 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: Letters without signatures: An analysis of the anonymous letters written by citizens of the German Democratic Republic to the BBC German Service circa the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1960-1962.
Supervisor: Prof. Sara Jones and Prof. Corey Ross
PhD in German Studies

Phd title: Corpus-Based Stylistic Analysis on Women's Issues: A Study of Modern Arabic Newspapers
Supervisor: Dr Anissa Daoudi and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD Modern Languages

Currently, I am doing my Phd in Modern languages particularly in Arabic. Previously, I have completed my BA and MA in Arabic and Communication at Islamic Science University of Malaysia. My interest is on Arabic and Media.

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PhD Title: Writing a New Society: Aufbau in East German Literature 1945-1961
Supervisors: Professor Sara Jones, Dr Monica Jato and Dr Ute Hirsekorn (Nottingham)
Wolfson Scholar

 

Phd title: Discursive Constructions and Struggles Around the Arab Spring: Critical Discourse Analysis of Modern Arabic News Articles
Supervisor: Dr Anissa Daoudi
PhD Modern Languages

Currently, I am doing my Phd in Modern languages (Arabic). Previously, I have my BA in Arabic Language and Literature form The Hashemite University, Jordan and MA in Arabic Linguistic from International Islamic ...

Phd title: African women’s writings under Soviet eyes: the case of the Russian translation of francophone African novels
Supervisors: Dr Natalya Rulyova and Professor Helen Abbott
PhD in Modern Languages

Phd title: Self-Orientalist Representations in Algerian Postcolonial Novels
Supervisor: Dr Berny Sèbe, Dr Anissa Daoudi
PhD in Modern Languages

Phd title: Paths to Signed Language Interpreting in Great Britain and America since 1150 AD
Supervisor: Dr Hilary Brown and Gabriela Saldanha
PhD in Modern Languages (Translation)

I have been a private practice American Sign Language-English interpreter/translator, mentor and presenter since 1989. My MA is in Professional Communication, from Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, ...

Phd title: The role of correct pronunciation and intonation in teaching Italian as a foreign language through blended learning: a guide to the core sounds of the Italian language for English native speakers
Supervisor: Dr Paolo De Ventura
PhD Modern Languages

Phd title: Constructing and Consuming the Francophone Caribbean: an ecocritical approach
Supervisor: Dr Louise Hardwick, Professor Stephen Forcer and Dr Emma Wagstaff
PhD in French Studies

PhD title: Alienation of the Educated in Francophone and Anglophone African Literature
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sebe and Dr. Stephan Forcer)
PhD Francophone Studies

Phd title: “Concrétisations cinématographiques de l’identité française : Défenses symptomatiques”/“Cinematic Concretisations of French Identity: Symptomatic Defences”
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Watts and Dr Kate Ince
PhD Modern Languages

PhD Title: Teaching and learning the subjunctive in Portuguese as a second language
Supervisors: Dr Patricia Odber de Baubeta and Professor John Klapper
PhD Hispanic Studies

Thesis: Lost in Translation?: A Case Study in Minority Language Translation of the Subtitling and Dubbing of Basque Cinema
Supervisors: Dr Emma Tyler and Dr Andrew Watts
PhD in Modern Languages

Phd title: Effectiveness of online language learning: a case study of Italian as a foreign language
Supervisor: Dr Paolo De Ventura and Dr Paola Cori
PhD in Modern Languages (Translation)

Phd title: Translation Through the Prism of Settler-Coloniality: Indigenous Elimination, Framed Translation, and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Gould
PhD Modern Languages

PhD Title: 'Donna con donna' (woman with woman): representations of female-female desire in early modern Italian literature
Supervisor: Dr Charlotte Ross
PhD Italian Studies

I completed my BA in Italian literature at the University of Pisa and my MA in Modern Philology at the Sapienza University of Rome. I also obtained a Master’s Degree in Teaching Italian Culture and Italian as a Foreign ...

Phd title: Using Technology to Facilitate Students’ Learning of Chinese Characters
Supervisor: Professor John Klapper
PhD Modern Languages