Doctoral researchers in Modern Languages

PhD Title:  Journeys into the Apocalypse: Desire, Identity and the Kurtzian Horror in the Contact Zones of Empire
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: A Comprehensive Approach to the Translation of Figures of Comparison in Contemporary Self-Help Genre 

Supervisors: Professor Emma Tyler and Dr Sofia Malamatidou

 

Phd title: The application of feminist translation theory to the rewriting of family laws in the Middle East and North Africa, in light of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: A case study of Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Supervisor: Dr Anissa Daoudi and Dr Meghan Campbell
PhD in Modern Languages (Translation)

PhD title: Sub-Saharan Africa Vernacular Literature: Translating Amharic Fiction
Supervisor: Professor Rebecca Gould
PhD Translation Studies Practice-Based

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

Supervisors: Dr Sofia Malamatidou, Professor 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 Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

 

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

PhD Title: Urban Terrorism in France (2015-2020): Trauma, Memory and the Transmission of Affect
Supervisors: Dr Katharina Karcher and Dr Elliot Evans

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

PhD Title: Post independence disillusionment with African Politics: Postcolonial Francophone literary voices
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sebe and Dr Emma Wagstaff
PhD French Studies

PhD Title: Unusual places and exceptional people: women, minorities and the Self in the travel accounts of non-colonial observers in Libya during the colonial period 1911-1951
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sebe and Dr Anissa Daoudi

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: Professor Sara Jones and Professor Corey Ross
PhD in German Studies

PhD Title: Nietzsche and Adorno as Critics of Enlightenment
Supervisors: Dr Nicholas Martin and Dr Elystan Griffiths
PhD German Studies

PhD Title: Learning to Optimize Reading: Transferring Eye Movements across Languages
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak and Dr Petar Milin
PhD Modern Languages

 

PhD Title: The Superfluous and the Colonised: Self-Colonisation in Russian Literature
Supervisors: Dr Isobel Palmer and Dr Berny Sebe
PhD Russian Studies

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

Phd title: Missionary Engagement and Casteism: History and Memory of an Encounter in the Colonial Context of Kerala
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sèbe and Dr Jagbir Jhutti-Johal
PhD Postcolonial Studies

Phd title: Francophone African women’s fiction through the prism of Soviet Russian translation
Supervisors: Dr Natalya Rulyova and Professor Helen Abbott
PhD in Translation Studies - Modern Languages

PhD Title: Beyond "colonial amnesia" - Decolonising German institutional memory through transformative social activism
Supervisors: Professor Sara Jones, Dr Emanuelle Santos, Associate Professor Jenny Wüstenberg
PhD German Studies

 

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 and Dr Paola Cori
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

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

 

Thesis: Lost in Translation?: A Case Study in Minority Language Translation of the Subtitling and Dubbing of Basque Cinema
Supervisors: Professor Emma Tyler and Dr Andrew Watts
PhD in 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: 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: Representations of Queer Women in French and Greek Literature (1880-1940): A Comparative Reading
Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Ross and Dr Elliot Evans
PhD Modern Languages

 

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