Staff Research Expertise and Projects

Name	Expertise	Current Research Projects
Ailes, Marianne - Professor of French	Comparative literature on the Middle Ages, especially the interaction between Old French, Anglo-Norman and Middle English	Charlemagne: A European Icon http://www.charlemagne-icon.ac.uk/
Bush, Ruth - Associate Professor in French and Comparative Literature	African literary and cultural studies; material print cultures; readers and reading; sociology of culture; literary translation	Popular Print and Reading Cultures in Francophone Africa (AHRC-funded, Senegal focus; see www.awamagazine.org) Creative Writing and Translation for Peace (AHRC-funded, Cameroon focus) Creative Lives of African Universities (ERC-funded)
Daniels, Rhiannon - Associate Professor in Italian Studies	The transmission and reception of medieval and Renaissance Italian culture; intermediality and the history of the book	The Renaissance Decameron: a comprehensive study of the printed tradition of Boccaccio's major work in the 16th century
Davies, Steffan - Senior Lecturer	Exile literature 1790-1955; German literature and history of the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries; contacts between German and Welsh literatures	German Exile Literature in the ‘Age of Nations’, 1790-1955 The British Library Michael Hamburger Collection: Mediating European Literature (AHRC CDP)
Doak, Connor - Lecturer	Transnational approaches to: Russian literature and culture; romanticism, realism, and modernism; gender and sexuality, especially masculinity; literary and cultural theories, all with focus on contacts between Russia and Western Europe and the Americas.	Transnational Russian Studies: A project re-orienting Russian Studies as a discipline, investigating the boundary work that sustains ‘Russia’ and ‘Russian’ as national categories, and charting the crossing or transgression of those constructed boundaries Queer Russian Life-Writing: A project investigating the ways in which queer (LGBTQ+) Russians have created ego-texts, with emphasis on how transnational influences have shaped queer Russian lives
Earlie, Paul - Senior Lecturer in French Media and Communication	French literature and culture; Francophone Belgian literature and culture; literary and cultural theory (especially rhetoric)	The Rhetoric of Theory: the ambivalent reception and afterlife of classical rhetoric in French thought from Roland Barthes to Barbara Cassin). Intellectuals and the Popular Media in France: comparative media approach to understanding how public intellectuals in France have engaged with the mass media
Fox, Albertine - Senior Lecturer in French Film	Intermediality and image-sound-text relationships; intersectional feminist and queer theory; LGBTQ film and literature	Female Sexuality in Contemporary Middle Eastern film Chantal Akerman's Texts, Installations, documentaries, and Fictional Works Listening Spaces in Francophone Documentary film
Harrow, Susan - Ashley Watkins Chair in French Language and Literature	19^th and 20^th-century French literature (poetry and narrative), visual/textual culture studies, modernism studies, epistolarity studies	Letterworlds: Epistolarity and the Inter-Art Community in France 1848–1902 Colour in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing, c19th-c21st.
Hawkey, James - Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics	Linguistics (Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics), Minority Languages, Catalan Studies	European Migration, Language Policy and Small States (funded by the British Academy): addresses how economic migrant communities engage with the 'small' languages of their host countries, focusing on Catalan in Andorra and Luxembourgish in Luxembourg. Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Catalan in France (funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust): examines the links between language attitudes and linguistic practices in Catalan-speaking areas of southern France, with special attention to phonetic and morphosyntactic variation.
Hurcombe, Martin - Professor of French Studies	Interwar radical politics, particularly the French far right and its relationship to Mediterranean dictatorships; late 19th- and 20th-century sports culture; French and Scandinavian crime fiction	France and the Spanish Civil War French Political Travel Writing of the Inter-War Years Global Cycling (with Matthew Brown)
King, Edward - Associate Professor in Portuguese and Latin American Studies	Transmedia storytelling; comics and graphic fiction	Using Critical Data Comics to Explore Digital Literacies and Social Inclusion in Brazil (UoB ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Impact Project Award), 2020-2022 Narratives and the Grapevine: New Modes for Literature and Storytelling (UoB Brigstow Seedcorn Funding) 2019-2020 (with Madhu Krishnan)
Kosick, Rebecca - Senior Lecturer	Comparative poetics; hemispheric American poetry; intermedia arts; Latin American art; Latin American literature; literary theory; new materialisms; translation studies; translation theory	British Library Michael Hamburger Archive: Mediating European Literature (AHRC CDP) Maths Poems (Brigstow-funded Interdisciplinary Research Project) Multilingual Multimedia: Artists' Books in Cuba and the United States (Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship at the British Library) Multiverses: Languages of Contemporary Poetry
Merchant, Paul - Senior Lecturer in Latin American FIlm and Visual Culture	Ecological literature and visual culture in the Americas (and elsewhere)	Reimagining the Pacific: Images of the Ocean in Chile and Peru, c.1960 to the Present (AHRC Leadership Fellowship)
O'Rawe, Catherine - Professor of Italian Film and Culture	Italian cinema; cinema and media studies; audience studies; acting, stardom and celebrity	Italian Cinema Audiences, 1945-60 (AHRC-funded) (http://italiancinemaaudiences.org/) Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60 (ERC-funded) (https://studiotec.info/), with Sarah Street
Randall, Rachel - Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Media and Digital Communications	Latin American cultural studies; women's writing and filmmaking; Latin American digital culture	Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American culture
Schonle, Andreas - Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Head of School	Cultural and ideological constructions of time and space in Russia; elite studies; urban studies with emphasis on post-socialist cities; Russian literature in a transnational context (18^th-19^th centuries); literary and cultural theory	A History of Russian Time The Europeanised Russian Elite across Borders
Shilton, Siobhan - Professor in French Studies and the Visual Arts	20th- and 21st-century literature and visual arts exploring encounters between French-speaking cultures (particularly in the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and France). Themes include: immigration, diaspora, colonialism, postcolonialism, revolution, travel, exoticism, transnationalism, transculturation	Art and the 'Arab Spring': Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond Transcultural Encounters between France and the Maghreb in Literature and the Visual Arts
Siviter, Clare - Senior Lecturer in French Theatre and Performance	Theatre, censorship, celebrity culture	Surveilling the Stage: Censorship and Subjectivity in the Age of the Revolution (Leverhulme Research Fellowship) Theatre on the Move in Times of Conflict (1750-1850) (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant)
Stephens, Bradley - Associate Professor	Reception theory and adaptation studies; gender studies (especially masculinity studies) and literary celebrity; romantic poetics and the environmental humanities	The Relationship between the Romantic Imagination and Existential Phenomenology Mid-twentieth-century Literary Exchanges between France and America The Transnational and Multimedia legacy of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (1862) Transnational Masculinity Studies
Tomlinson, Rowan - Senior Lecturer	Renaissance cultural and intellectual history (French, Italian, neo-Latin)	The Relationship between Natural History and Literature across the long 16th Century Pre-modern Theories of Imitation and Intertextuality The Politics of Style Interactions between Textual and Visual Cultures in Classical Reception
Vilain, Robert - Professor of German and Comparative Literature	Comparative literature; Franco-German literary relations in the 19th and 20th centuries; literary translation; the relations of literature with music, the visual arts, and film (especially early 20th-century)	The oeuvre of the Bilingual Franco-German Writer Yvan Goll Stefan Zweig's Reception of French Poetry Rilke, Italy, and Italian art Puppets, Marionettes, Dolls and Automata in European and American literature, 1890-1930
Wells, Caragh - Senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies	Women's Writing; post-war Spanish fiction and society; psychoanalysis and the novel; literary representations of grief; cultural representations of male emotion	Masculinity in Post-War Spain Emotional Histories of Francoism
Li, Shuangyi Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures	Theories of comparative and world literature; Marcel Proust; international modernism; translingualism; exophone literature; literary/cultural translation; travel literature; contemporary global/diasporic Chinese literature and visual arts (paintings, calligraphy, films, art installations); intermediality	Franco-Chinese literature and visual arts (funded by Swedish Research Council/Vetenskapsrådet) https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2018-01673_VR Europe-Africa-China triangular literary encounter and imagination
Reza, Alexandra Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures	Comparative postcolonial studies (especially across French, Portuguese and English), anticolonial thought, the cultural production of African decolonization, 20^th and 21^st century writing, film and broadcasting, poetry translation.	Literary journals and African decolonization Multilingual writing and broadcasting in post-independence West Africa ‘Southern questions: theory at Europe’s colonial frontiers’ (with Musab Younis at QMUL) Un-Mapping Colonial Space: Discovery, Enclosure and the Anti-colonial Imagination.