Doctoral researchers in Modern Languages

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: Tracking problem solving strategies and time as indicators of translation competence acquisition across different proficiency levels
Supervisors: Professor Emma Tyler and Dr Anna-Marjatta Milsom
PhD in Translation Studies

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: Understanding Linguistics features as emotional and sense of self stimulators in Tourism Promotion : A Corpus-Based Investigation of Translated Tourism Texts
Supervisors: Dr Sofia Malamatidou and Professor Emma Tyler
PhD Modern Languages

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: Understanding How Ego-targeting, as a Persuasive Tool, is Used and Communicated in Tourism Promotional Texts between English and Arabic: A Corpus-based Analysis
Supervisors: Dr Sofia Malamatidou, Professor Emma Tyler, and Dr Yazid Haroun
PhD Modern Languages

PhD title: Assessing the Relevance of Saudi Undergraduates’ Translation Competence to the Requirements of the Saudi Translation Market
Supervisor: Professor Emma Tyler and Dr Anna Milsom
PhD Translation Studies

PhD Title: Translating Salhi's 'Occidentalism' from English into Arabic Followed by Translation Commentary
Supervisors: Dr Anissa Daoudi and Dr Paola Cori
Translation Studies Practice-Based PhD

PhD title: Indigenous African Literature: Translating Amharic Fiction
Supervisors: Dr Louise Hardwick
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: Les plaisirs démodés: the portrayal of “anachronistic heroes” in French comedy cinema
Supervisors: Professor Kate Ince and Dr Andrew Watts
PhD French Studies

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: A Genealogy of Alienation in Post-Beauvoirian Philosophies of Gender
Supervisors: Professor Lisa Downing, Dr Katharina Karcher
PhD Comparative Literature 

 

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: Song translation over time: a digital analysis of Italian-dubbed animated musical comedies 1959-2019
Supervisor: Professor Helen Abbott,  Professor Emma Tyler and Dr Pierre-Alexis Mével (University of Nottingham)
PhD in Modern Languages (Translation)

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: In the afterglow of the Novelas ejemplares: censorship, exemplarity, canonicity and 'Golden Age' in 17th and 18th-century Spanish exemplary short fiction.
Supervisors: Dr Jules Whicker and Professor Aengus Ward
Hispanic Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)

 

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

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

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

Research profile

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: 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: 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)

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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: The Discursivisation of Basque Terrorism
Supervisors: Dr Katharina Karcher  
PhD Modern Languages

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

 

PhD Title: Women and translation in early nineteenth-century France
Supervisors: Dr Hilary Brown and Dr Caroline Ardey
PhD Modern Languages

PhD Title: Translation as a critical pedagogy
Supervisors: Dr Emmanuelle Santos and Dr Reza Gholami
Modern Languages (Translation) and Education

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: 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: Architecture, Quasi-Colonialism and Politics: A Micro-History of the British Consulate in Wen-Chow
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sèbe and Dr Helle Jorgensen
French Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)  

PhD Title:  '(Re)Imagination: Disrupting dominant discourses of identity in speculative fiction from Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
Supervisors: Dr Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos and Dr Elliot Evans
PhD Hispanic Studies