Find a research supervisor in French studies

• words/music relations (including aesthetics, translation, adaptation, and performance)
• poetry and poetics (especially nineteenth-century French, and metre, accentuation, versification)
• voice/performance in relation to literary texts
• the role of digital media in researching texts and performances (music, theatre, readings)

• Nineteenth-century French poetry (Baudelaire, Mallarmé)
• Word and music studies
• Digital humanities (sound and song analysis)
• Poetry and fashion journalism
• Inter-art networks

• Sexuality, gender, and feminist studies
• Medicine and the humanities
• Modern critical theory (especially ethics, psychoanalysis, queer theory)
• Criminality and culture
• Death and culture
• 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century French thought.

• Visual Art
• Psychoanalysis
• Queer, Feminist and Transgender Theories
• 20th and 21st Century Literature and Critical Theory
• Activism and Art/Literature
• Technologies and Biotechnologies

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

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

• Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• British and French imperial history
• Decolonisation and the End of Empire
• Colonial memory
• Nineteenth and Twentieth French History

I came to Birmingham in 2006, and am based in the Department of Modern Languages. Among a range of teaching and research interests, I am particularly keen to promote the study of French literature and the visual arts, and the interactions between them.

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