Find a research supervisor in audio-visual modern languages

Staff in the Department of Modern Languages who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of audio-visual modern languages.

Professor Louise Hardwick

Professor Louise Hardwick

Professor of Francophone Studies and World Literature
AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow
Associate Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge

  • French and Francophone Literature
  • World Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Translation in Academia
  • Women's Writing
  • Environmental Humanities

Professor Kate Ince

Professor Kate Ince

Professor of French and Visual Studies

  • Film
  • Women's studies
  • Feminist thought
  • Philosophy
  • Twentieth century and contemporary France.

Dr Charlotte Ross

Dr Charlotte Ross

Head of the Department of Modern Languages

  • Gender and sexuality in Italian culture.
  • Twentieth-century and contemporary Italian culture and society.

Professor Rob Stone

Professor Rob Stone

Professor of Film Studies
Co-director of B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies

World Cinema, European Cinema, American Independent Cinema, Spanish, Basque, Cuban and Latin American Cinema, Film Theory. Film and Philosophy, The Politics of Film Aesthetics.

Dr Andrew Watts

Dr Andrew Watts

Reader in French Studies
Head of Taught Postgraduate, LCAHM

Adaptation theory and practice; French cinema; contemporary European cinema.

Modern languages staff research supervision areas