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• French modernist art, design and visual culture 1850-1940
• Magazines, exhibitions and mass culture in France 1900-1940
• Art, the interior and domesticity
• Edouard Vuillard and the Nabis
• Femininities and Feminisms
• Parisian modernisms and modernity

• Singers and Singing Culture, especially Early Modern
• Early Modern Italian Vocal Music
• Modal and Rhetorical Analysis of Early Modern Music
• Feminism and Gender Studies
• Performance Theories

Dr Shelley Budgeon is an Honorary Associate Professor in Sociology who specializes in gender and feminist theory. Her research analyses the impact of various forces of social change on the constitution of gender relations and the performance of gendered identities. Her expertise encompasses theories of gendered subjectivity; feminist politics; gender, postfeminism and neoliberalism; sexuality and ...

• Translation and new media, with particular reference to the Arabic-speaking region
• Translation and popular culture
• Gender and language use in the context of translation

• 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.

Dr Emma A. Foster is a Associate Professor in international politics. Emma’s research interests include gender and sexuality studies, (de)politicisation and anti-politics, international sustainable development policy and development studies more broadly.

Emma co-convenes the Gender and Feminist Theory Group, a vibrant research group hosted in POLSIS and bringing together ...

• German literature, history and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries
• Pastoral and utopian writing
• German-language cinema, all periods

• Biblical Hermeneutics
• Gender
• Sexualities and religion
• Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex theologies 
• Ecological hermeneutics

• Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
• Gender, Sexuality and Law, particularly issues to do with care, family law, discrimination, equality and human rights.

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

• Cultural history of modern Britain
• Histories of gender
• Sexuality and selfhood

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

• The invention of America in the Spanish culture of the exile of 1939
• Women's personal narratives
• 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature
• Modern Spanish poetry

• Meta-ethics
• Applied ethics
• Philosophy of medicine
• Ethical theories

• Manuscripts and early printed books, especially Books of Hours
• Art at the French and Burgundian Courts c. 1400-1600
• Women as patrons and consumers of late medieval early modern art
• Text-image relations
• The querelle des femmes in art and literature

• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Women Writers
• Modernism
• The Novel 1880-1940
• Literature and Visual Arts 1840-1940
• The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century City

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

• Sexuality and gender in Weimar Germany
• Women artists in interwar German art
• Eighteenth-century Swiss intellectual history and culture;
• Erotica and censorship
• Early twentieth-century German intellectual history and culture
• Text-image relations 

Nicola Smith is a political economist working on feminist and queer theory, neoliberalism and austerity, sex work and reproductive labour, and the history of the British body politic.

• Narratives of (personal, gendered, professional, national)
• Pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning
• The role of mindset and reflection in deep learning.

Jessica is a chartered psychologist and an HCPC registered forensic psychologist. She is the School of Psychology’s Head of Research. Her primary areas of research are policing and sexual offending and much of her research is co-produced with practitioners from UK and international policing and law enforcement. She is the founder of the international academic-practitioner C-LINK ...

Religion and society in the early and central middle ages, religious and political culture, gender and identity.