Projects in Modern Languages

Current and recent projects in Modern Languages at Birmingham:

• Culture and its uses as testimony
• '(S)extremism': Theoretical and Artistic Interventions on Women and Extremism
• Urban terrorism in Europe 2004-2019
• Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia 2018-2020
• Violence against women in Algeria in the 1990s: narratives, translations, and languages
• Global Literary Theory: Caucasus Literatures Compared
• Women and Translation in Early Modern Germany, c.1600-1720 (2017-20)
• The Grace of the Italian Renaissance (2017-19)
• Inner and outer exile in fascist Germany and Spain: a comparative study (2016-19)
• Estoria de Espanna Digital
• Baudelaire Song Project (2015-2019)

Older projects:

• Queer Italia Network (2016-2018)
• Culture and its uses as testimony (2016-17)
• Joseph Zobel: Négritude's Novelist? The Transnational Politics of a French Caribbean Author working between the Caribbean, Africa and Europe (2014-2016)
• Outposts of Conquest (2012-16)
• Contemporary French poetic practice: an interdisciplinary approach (2013-2015)
• Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2015 (2012-14)
• The Zibaldone project (2008-13)
• Adaptation, Recreation, Translation (2012)
• Genre Studies Network

Our research centres:

• Sexuality and Gender Studies

Our research networks:

• FRANCOPOCO (Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial) Network
• Genre Studies Network
• Postcolonial Birmingham Research Network