Postgraduate Research Students in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures

MPhil/PhD students in our School pursue research in French, German, Italian, and Hispanic Studies (all broadly conceived), as well as in Translation and Transcultural Studies.

Name	Thesis Topic	MPhil/PhD Programme
Adam Agowun	Approaches to presidential televisual image projection in the French Fifth Republic, 1995-2017: from candidacy to post-presidency	French Studies
Gennaro Ambrosino	Intersections between archaeology and the ‘unconscious’ in Italian culture from the late 18C through the mid-19C.	Italian Studies
Airelle Amedro	Queer vulnerability in French contemporary narratives	French Studies
Annalina Benner	Modes of Representing Contemporary Music in Anglophone Fiction, Musical Thematization, Imitation, and Incorporation	German Studies
Daniel Cabeza-Campillo	Brexit in translation: Narratives of conflict in British and Spanish online media (2016-2022)	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Esteban Catalán Muñoz	End of the World's Redux	Hispanic Studies
Meryem Choukri	Archives of Resistance - Knowledge, Memory and Experience of Feminist Activists of Colour in German	German Studies
Abigail Coppins	Women and Children from the Caribbean inside the prisoner-of war prisons of Portchester and Forton Castle, 1793-1815	French Studies
Jacopo Francesco Mascoli	The Working Class Goes To Hell: Visions of Labour in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Philosophy	Italian Studies
Kerry Gibbons	Anxiety and Existential Crisis in the Italian Fascist-era romanzo coloniale (1918-1948)	Italian Studies
Molly Harrabin	Representations of 'the other' in Weimar Cinema	German Studies
Julián Harruch Morales	Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity	Hispanic Studies
Rachel Hayes	Queering Gender in Medieval French Narratives	French Studies
Jenny He	Examining the 'Red Translation' of English novels into Chinese and their online marketing and reception in contemporary mainland China as propaganda for Xi Jinping's economic policies.	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Millie Jacoby	Haunting the Nation-State: (Post)memory of Eastern Europe in 20^th Century French Jewish Literature	French Studies
Pallavi Joshi	Raising them Alone: Single-Parent Families in French Cinema 2010-2020	French Studies
Enrica Leydi	Giacomo Leopardi's visual culture	Italian Studies
Yanyu Liu	Developing Feminism Within Translation — An investigation on the female character construction in the Chinese translations of six crime fictions	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Neil Malloy	Peripheral Vision: the Aesthetics of Political Marginality in Contemporary French fiction	French Studies
Charles Marshall	Situating Mme de Staël's Delphine in the context of her historiographical, political and literary discourse	French Studies
Raghad Melfi	A Reception Study of Gender Representation in Saudi Feminist Films	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Ambra Minoli	The literary and transcultural representations of Shanghai during the Republican period as reflected in the works of Chinese and French authors.	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Franziska Müller	Fluid Borderscapes in Contemporary German-Speaking Literature	German Studies
Malvika Nair	"Skins called Race, Skins Called Caste”: A Comparative Reading of Poetry by Nancy Morejón and Meena Kandasamy	Hispanic Studies
Ian Nixon	The Post-Industrial and Post-Colonial Condition in French literature since 2007	French Studies
Emanuele Podda	Émile Giraud: A Life Across Borders (1894-1965)	French Studies
Belén Rodríguez Salvatierra	Feminist Decolonial Geopolitics in Translation: The Representation of Chilean Contemporary Women Writers in the English-Language Literary Market.	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Paola Sanges Ghetti	Orbiting an Origin: Encounters between Exile and Invention in Wajdi Mouawad	French Studies
Yara Staets	Coming to Terms with the Present: Non-Realist Representations of War in early post-1945 German Literature	German Studies
Xiaoyan Tan	Translation of contemporary Chinese women’s writing	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Silvia Vari	A Dance Between the Visible the Invisible: Fragments of (forced) Migration in Comics from Italy and the Mediterranean	Italian Studies
Leilani Willis	Translating the Neglected Plays of the 17th-Century Hispanic World’s Leading Dramaturgas into English: A Comparative Analysis	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Laura Woolley-Núñez	Recovering Anti-Francoist Women’s Voices: A Feminist Translation of María Teresa León’s Memoria de la melancolía	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Yaqi Xi	The translator’s voice embodied: translating the New Northeast Chinese Writers Group from text to audio	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Shaoyu Yang	Translating Traumatic Memory of Twentieth-Century China: Diasporic Literature of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and Translation	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Yuning Yang	Examining Translationese - A new Quality Assurance Method for Game Localisation	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Zhen Yang	Refugee Narratives: World University Service's Ethiopian and Eritrean Scholarship Programmes in the Light of Current Practice	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Xinyao Zhang	Feminist Translations of Virginia Woolf and Her Works in China	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Yuqing Zhang	The Reconstruction of Suspense in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Translations of Sherlock Holmes Stories	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Di Zhao	From writing to translation, viewing the double plights of Chinese Dialect Literature through the lens of Postcolonialism	Translation & Transcultural Studies

For completed PhD theses in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, go to WRAP (Warwick Research Archive Portal), where you can find many theses on open access.

(For older theses, look on WRAP under the former departments of French Studies, German Studies, or Italian.)