Past PhD Projects in Modern Languages and Cultures
Here are some examples of PhD theses completed in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures over the past 5 years or so. Their topics reflect the wide variety of periods covered (from the Middle Ages to the present day) and their often global, comparative or interdisciplinary approach.
Completed PhD theses in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures are deposited on WRAPLink opens in a new window (Warwick Research Archive Portal), where you can find many theses on open access. Note, however, that some theses have restricted access only, e.g. if their author has plans to publish their doctoral research as a monograph or various articles.
For older theses, look on WRAP; pre-2014/2015 theses may be listed under the former departments of French Studies, German Studies, or Italian.) Supervisors based in SMLC may also have co-supervised theses in other departments and centres (e.g. the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance).
| NAME | TOPIC | SUBJECT AREA |
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Allen, Matthew C. (2022) |
French Studies | |
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Brockmann, Tim A. (2023) |
Wahrnehmungen Israels in der Bundesrepublik (1949 bis heute). |
German Studies |
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Brondino, Andrea (2022) |
Italian | |
| Catalán Muñoz, Esteban (2023) |
End of the World's Redux: Narratives in Transition |
Hispanic Studies |
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Castro e Silva, Maria (2024) |
Hispanic Studies | |
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Concha Correa, Fernando (2021) |
The poetics of translating crime fiction in Argentina : Jorge Luis Borges and Ricardo Piglia. |
Hispanic Studies |
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Goodall, Reece (2023) |
Defining 21st-century French Horror in a Global Media Economy |
French Studies |
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Grass, Michael (2020) |
German Studies | |
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Herington, Sky (2022) |
Queering Gender in Medieval French Narratives |
French Studies |
| Hayes, Rachel (2024) |
Queering Gender in Medieval French Narratives |
French Studies |
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Infield, Rebecca (2021) |
‘Briser tous les cadres’: theatre censorship and decolonisation in Britain and France (1950-1969). |
French Studies |
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Krebs, Gerhild (2021) |
German Studies | |
| Müller, Franziska (2023) |
Water Writing and Fluid Borderscapes in Contemporary German-Language Literature (co-tutelle with the University of Giessen / PhDNet) |
German Studies |
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Onyekpe-Touzet, Orane (2023) |
(co-tutelle with the Sorbonne) |
French Studies |
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Pawelski, Melissa (2022) |
Languages of Punishment: Translating Michel Foucault's Surveiller et punir into English and German |
French Studies |
| Pillière, Rebecca (2020) |
The Constructs of a Rebel City: the Development of La Rochelle's (Self-)Identificaton in Print during the French Wars of Religion (1563-1635) |
French Studies |
| Podda, Emmanuele (2025) |
Émile Giraud: A Life Across Borders (1894-1965) |
French Studies |
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Tabouratzidis, Anna (2022) |
Narrating Future Scenarios, Exploring Present Concerns: Speculative Fictions as Laboratoris of Cultural Self-Reflection (co-tutelle with the University of Giessen / PhDNet) |
German Studies |
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Veiga Expósito, Alejandro (2022) |
Wound literature : poetics of crisis in Spain and Venezuela during the 2010s. |
Hispanic Studies |
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Vicente Faustino, João Pedro (2021) |
Late modern subjectivity in the fictional work of Mário Cláudio : identity, memory, expression. |
Hispanic Studies |
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Zhao, Di (2023) |
Translation & Transcultural Studies | |
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Zappalà, Emiliano Sebastian (2021) |
Italian |