Dr Kirsty Hooper, Hispanic Studies

Dr Hooper is writing up a book called The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession, which explores the early 20th-century boom in British interest in Spain. The book considers academic and cultural scholarship, art and museums, travel and tourism, popular fiction, and the illustrated press, all of which brought ordinary people into closer contact with Spain and its culture than ever before. You can read more about the project on the Leverhulme Trust website.

In May 2013 she spent a day filming in Madrid with Michael Portillo, for the new series of 'Great Continental Journeys' and was very excited to walk down the aisle at Los Jerónimos church with Señor Portillo.

Dr Fabienne Viala

Dr Viala is finishing a book entitled Post-Columbus Syndrome: Cultural Nationalisms and Commemorations in the Hispanic, French and English Caribbean, which analyses representations of Christopher Columbus in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinque and Jamaica at the time of the 1992 anniversary.

Dr Clemencia Rodas-Perez, Hispanic Studies

Dr Rodas-Perez is researching written corrective feedback on written work in the process of second language acquisition.

Her work is initially focused on three European languages, from which she expects to identify the practices, opinions and perceptions of Language tutors and their students.

Dr Christabelle Peters, Hispanic Studies

Dr Peters is developing a book project that examines the interconnection between race and national identity in Angola.

Her current research is a critical comparative study on the impact of a range of social discourses on anti-colonial and post-colonial projects in the Iberian Atlantic, particularly in Angola, Brazil and Cuba.

Dr Santiago Oyarzabal, Hispanic Studies

Dr Oyarzabal is currently co-editing a book called 'World Film Locations: Buenos Aires' which includes a trip to the Argentine capital to discover and photograph locations for iconic films such as 'Nueve reinas' or 'El secreto de sus ojos'.

He is also writing on Argentine film star Ricardo Darin, and is preparing a book proposal to publish his PhD thesis, which investigates representations of crisis in recent Argentine films.

Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

Professor Ribeiro de Menezes is starting to research the topic of global circulations of cultural memory debates in the Luso-Hispanic world. Her research took her to Lisbon, Portugal in July and to Derry, Northern Ireland, in Autumn 2013.

Dr Kirsty Hooper

This project aims to uncover the traces of Liverpool’s role as a hub in the 19th-century networks that connected Spain and Portugal with Latin America. The core of the project is a database of some 2000 19th-century Liverpool residents born in the Luso-Hispanic world; another part of the project aims to trace and record the locations where Hispanic Liverpudlians lived and worked, many of which have already disappeared, or exist only as ruins.

Dr Kirsty Hooper

Literary histories of Spain give the impression that women writers disappeared entirely from cultural and intellectual life in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, but there is evidence that hundreds of women were reading, writing, publishing and commentating in Spain on issues of individual, social, local, and national interest during the first decades of the 20th century. The goal of this project is to track down, recover, collect and analyse bio-bibliographical information about women writers in Spain during the first decades of the 20th century: the project database currently contains over 500 women writers, 1,600 works and 180 translations from the period 1890-1936.

Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Hispanic Studies has finished a book entitled 'Embodying Memory in Spain', discussing contemporary debates on the legacies of the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship

Hispanic Studies are thrilled today to welcome their first-ever cohort of undergraduate students, as well as three new MA students!

Italian at Warwick has been ranked in 3rd place in the latest Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide. This impressive result places Warwick just below Cambridge (1st) and Oxford (2nd).

The full rankings can be found at http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/University_Guide/

The newly established Department of Hispanic Studies is delighted to have been chosen to host the annual conference of Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies (WISPS) in 2015.

Date to be confirmed nearer the time

Researchers in Italian at Warwick are central in a £1.8m research project recently funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its ‘Translating Cultures’ theme.

Warwick German Studies is second to top in the table of UK German degree courses in the Sunday Times University Guide League Tables

On our brand new BA in Modern Languages, you can study three languages: two major languages chosen from those taught by our French, German, Italian and Hispanic Studies departments, plus one minor language: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.

Dr Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Associate Professor and Reader in the Department of French Studies at Warwick, has published V. Y. Mudimbe. Undisciplined Africanism with Liverpool University Press. This major monograph charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels, and demonstrating that Mudimbe’s intellectual career has been informed by a series of decisive dialogues with some of the key exponents of Africanism (Herodotus, EW Blyden, Placide Tempels), continental and postcolonial thought (Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss), and African thought and philosophy from Africa and the diaspora (L.S. Senghor, Patrice Nganang, and Achille Mbembe).

The Department of French Studies was once again highly successful in the recent Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) for those PGR students who teach. Jonathan Durham, a PhD student in the department, was one of five winners of the WATE PGR Awards, winning a cash prize of £500 to be spent on teaching and research activities. Dr Victoria Turner was commended in the same competition, winning a £200 prize. We congratulate Jonathan and Vicky on their success and wish them every success in their future plans. Jonathan is teaching as a lecteur at the University of Nanterre Paris X this academic year, while Vicky has joined the Department of French at the University of Leeds as a Teaching Fellow.

This latest success at the WATE awards, for which teachers are nominated by their colleagues and students, follows on from recognition of the department’s teaching excellence in 2012, where both Dr Cathy Hampton and David Lees won their respective teaching awards. To find out more about the teaching offered by Warwick's Department of French Studies, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/prospective/ug/degrees/

The Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick will give vigorous support to outstanding early-career applications to this year's British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

We encourage eligible candidates working in appropriate subject areas to select Warwick as the host institution, and to benefit from the support and guidance of both Department and Faculty expertise when preparing the application. All initial or informal enquiries should be directed to the Department’s Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Kate Astbury (katherine.astbury@warwick.ac.uk). Draft applications should then reach the Department by 22 September, for eventual submission to the British Academy by their deadline of 9 October.

The Department energetically maintains a long-standing commitment to interdisciplinary research in French and francophone literature, history, thought, and culture across a wide chronological range from the Middle Ages to the present.

Departmental members are also strongly engaged in several key University research centres, including the Centre for Caribbean Studies, the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, the Centre for Research in the History of Medicine, the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, the Eighteenth Century Centre, and the Humanities Research Centre.

Details of our research activities and strengths can be viewed here.

Details of the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme can be viewed here.

Eligibility criteria are as follows:

1.Applicants must be supported by the UK host institution in which they wish to hold the Fellowship

2.Applicants must be within three years of the award of a doctorate (for the 2013-2014 competition this means either already having been awarded a doctoral degree following a viva voce examination held on or after 1 April 2011; or having a reasonable expectation that they will have submitted and had their thesis examined by 1 April 2014)

3.Applicants in the 2013-2014 competition awarded a PhD following a viva voce examination held prior to 1 April 2011 who are unable to offer extenuating circumstances, such as interruption to their academic career for maternity leave or illness, will not be considered

4.Applicants must be a UK or EEA national, or have completed a doctorate at a UK university. Any applicant who does not fall into one of these categories must demonstrate a strong prior association with the UK academic community, for example through already having been employed in a temporary capacity (longer than six months) at a UK university.