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 televisual image projection in the French Fifth Republic, 2002-2022: 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
Tim Brockmann	Perceptions of Israel in the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 2005): Changes in Attitudes and Shifts in Patterns of Prejudice	German Studies
Andrea Brondino	The Decline and Resilience of Irony in Post-1989 Italian Literature	Italian Studies
Daniel Cabeza-Campillo	Brexit in translation: Narratives of conflict in British and Spanish online media (2016-2022)	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Rodrigo Cañete	Aids and Art in Argentina and Chile during the 1980s and early 1980s and early 1990s	Hispanic Studies
Maria Inês Castro e Silva	This is what remains. The Cinema of Peripheral Spaces in a Post-Imperial Portugal	Hispanic 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
Simona Di Martino	From Flesh to Soul: The Dichotomy of the Body in Alfonso Varano, Salomone Fiorentino, and Giacomo Leopardi	Italian 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
Reece Goodall	Defining 21st-Century French Horror Cinema in a Global Film Economy	French Studies
Molly Harrabin	Representations of 'the other' in Weimar Cinema	German Studies
Julian Harruch Morales	The Decolonial Turn: Rationality, Modernity, and Interculturality	Hispanic Studies
Rachel Hayes	Queering Gender in Medieval French Narratives	French Studies
Sky Herington	L'ouragon du corps. Embodiment and performances of power in Sony Labou Transi's plays	French Studies
Pallavi Joshi	Raising them Alone: Single-Parent Families in French Cinema 2010-2020	French Studies
Neil Malloy	Peripheral Vision: the Aesthetics of Political Marginality in Contemporary French fiction	French Studies
Raghad Melfi	A Reception Study of Gender Representation in Saudi Feminist Films	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Franziska Müller	Fluid Borderscapes in Contemporary German-Speaking Literature	German Studies
Emanuele Podda	Émile Giraud: A Life Across Borders (1894-1965)	French Studies
Tianren Qiang	English Translations of Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction: A Sociological Account	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Yara Staets	Coming to Terms with the Present: Non-Realist Representations of War in early post-1945 German Literature	German Studies
Anna Sophia Tabouratzidis	Narrating Future Scenarios - Exploring Present Concerns: Speculative Fictions as Laboratories of Cultural Self-Reflection	German Studies
Orane Touzet	L'indicible dans le roman contemporain antillais: Patrick Chamoiseau, Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace et Gisèle Pineau	French Studies
Silvia Vari	A Dance Between the Visible the Invisible: Fragments of (forced) Migration in Comics from Italy and the Mediterranean	Italian Studies
Alejandro Veiga-Exposito	Wound Literature: Poetics of Crisis in Spain and Venezuela	Hispanic 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
Zhen Yang	Refugee Narratives: World University Service's Ethiopian and Eritrean Scholarship Programmes in the Light of Current Practice	Translation & Transcultural Studies
Emiliano Zappalà	Post-Truth Narrative: Narrative Trends, Cultural Agency, and Political Commitment in Italian Literature in the Age of Post-Truth	Italian 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.)