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Staff research interests

Shortcuts to staff research interests in: Chinese Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies. Translation and Transcultural Studies

Chinese Studies

Dr Qian Liu

Dr Qian Liu
20th-and 21st-century Chinese literature, reception of European literature in China at the turn of the 20th-century, theories and practices of literary translation.

Qian.Liu.1@warwick.ac.uk

French Studies

Professor Jeremy Ahearne

Professor Jeremy Ahearne
20th- and 21st-century culture, politics and thought.

J.N.Ahearne@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Will Amos

Dr Will Amos

Sociolinguistics; language contact; regional and minority languages; language and gender; translation and transcultural studies

W.Amos@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Katherine Astbury

Dr Katherine Astbury
18th- and 19th-century French and German literature; the French Revolution.

Katherine.Astbury@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Ingrid de Smet

Professor Ingrid De Smet
16th- and 17th-century European literature and society; early modern culture.

I.de-Smet@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
19th- and 20th-century French and Belgian literature; francophone (post)colonial literature and thought; African philosophy.

P-P.Fraiture@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Catherine Hampton

Dr Catherine Hampton
16th-century literature; French Renaissance court society and culture.

C.M.Hampton@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Seán Hand

Professor Seán Hand
Modern and contemporary literature, autobiography and ethnography; French philosophy and theory; ethics, globalization and governance.

S.Hand@warwick.ac.uk
 Mary Harrod 2

Dr Mary Harrod
Film and media studies; cultural and gender studies; critical theory and aesthetics.

M.G.M.Harrod@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Nick Hewlett

Professor Emeritus Nick Hewlett
Modern French politics and society; modern French political thought.

N.P.Hewlett@warwick.ac.uk
 

Professor Emeritus Leslie Hill
Philosophy and critical theory; modern and contemporary fiction; film studies.

leslie.hill@warwick.ac.uk
David Lees

Dr David Lees
Modern French history and politics.

D.W.Lees@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Stefano Milonia

Dr Stefano Milonia
Old French and Occitan; Medieval Italian Literature; Ecdotics, Textual Criticism, Manuscript Studies; Medieval Music; Digital Humanities; 21st Century Poetry

Stefano.Milonia@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Douglas Morrey

Dr Douglas Morrey
Film studies; contemporary French fiction; cultural studies.

D.J.Morrey@warwick.ac.uk
 

Professor Emerita Linda Paterson
Medieval French and Occitan literature and history.

L.M.Paterson@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Christopher W. Thompson

Professor Christopher W. Thompson
19th-century literature and art; travel literature; ethnographic and other film.

cw2thompson@gmail.com
Dr Jessica Wardaugh

Dr Jessica Wardhaugh
Modern French history; street politics; popular theatre; right-wing culture.

J.Wardhaugh@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Margaux Whiskin

Dr Margaux Whiskin
18th-century literature and thought.

M.Whiskin@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Susannah Wilson

Dr Susannah Wilson
19th- and 20th-century literature; women's writing; cultural and medical history.

S.M.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk

 

German Studies

Dr Christine Achinger

Dr Christine Achinger
Critical social theory and aesthetic theory; constructions of gender, nation and race and their relation to the experience of capitalist modernity; history and theories of antisemitism; Holocaust memory in Germany.

C.E.Achinger@warwick.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Rob Burns

Professor emeritus Rob Burns
German working-class culture from the Weimar Republic to the Federal Republic; protest and extra-parliamentary politics in the Federal Republic, including the student movement, the peace movement, the political manifestations of feminism and the environmentalist and ecological movement; diasporic culture in contemporary Germany; the development of ‘migrant’ or ‘Turkish-German’ cinema.

r.a.burns@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Elisabeth Hermann
German-language literature from the 18th to the 21st century, with special focus on the age of Goethe and Weimar Classicism, post-unification and contemporary literature after 1989, collective identities and cultural memory, representations of the Holocaust in literature, film and art, cultural theories, regional literature, transnationalism, and world literatures.
Elisabeth.Herrmann@warwick.ac.uk
Dr James Hodkinson

Dr James Hodkinson
18th -19th century German literature, culture and thought - nationalism and cosmopolitanism; Islam and Orientalism in Germany; Music in modern German culture - sound studies; German Romanticism in historical and contemporary contexts; Gender in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thought and literature.

j.r.hodkinson@warwick.ac.uk
Antonia Hofstätter

Dr Antonia Hofstätter
Critical theory, aesthetics, contemporary social and political thought, German idealism, memory studies.

Antonia.Hofstatter@warwick.ac.uk
Andrea Klaus

Andrea Klaus
Second language acquisition, teaching and learning in Higher Education, translation theory and practice, gender studies (women in the workforce)

a.g.klaus@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Ian Roberts Dr Ian Roberts
Film and culture in the German Weimar Republic 1919-1933; representations of war and the soldier in contemporary European cinema.
i.g.roberts@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Helmut Schmitz

Dr Helmut Schmitz
Post-war and contemporary German literature; post-war German memory cultures; representations of the Nazi period and the Holocaust; German wartime suffering; Love and Intimacy.

h.schmitz@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Katherine Stone
All aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first century German culture, with a particular focus on gender and memory studies; representations of National Socialism and World War II; memory cultures in East Germany; sexual violence; feminism; women’s writing; motherhood; family relationships and family memory; shifting notions of self and social belonging; memory and emotion.
K.Stone@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Doro Wiese
Dr Doro Wiese
Representations of Indigeneity, Willie Ermine’s “ethical space,” incommensurable histories, literary comparison, cross-cultural and cross-epistemological conditions, (settler) colonialism, critical race studies, methods of comparison.
Doro.Wiese@warwick.ac.uk

 

Hispanic Studies

Dr Olga Castro

Dr Olga Castro
Translation and the construction of gender and national identities in the Hispanic world; feminist translation studies; women writers in translation; the politics of translation in non-hegemonic cultures; the transnational travels of texts; self-translation in multilingual contexts; Galician Studies.

Olga.Castro@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Liz Chant

Dr Elizabeth Chant
Latin American environmental humanities, visual culture, map history, tourism studies, and energy humanities, with a focus on Argentinean and Chilean history and culture.

elizabeth.chant@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Michela Coletta

Dr Michela Coletta
Global and transnational history, cultural and intellectual history, history of knowledge, environmental humanities, environmental governance, Latin America.

m.coletta@warwick.ac.uk
Kirsty

Professor Kirsty Hooper
Spanish, Anglo-Spanish and Galician cultural history since 1800; global nineteenth century; connections between Spain and other cultures; mobilities (travel, tourism, migration, commerce); relational approaches to cultural history; and the use of digital technologies for humanities research.

k.hooper@warwick.ac.uk
Fabienne Viala

Professor Fabienne Manicom
Comparative studies on the Latin American and francophone historical novel, national memory and crime fiction in Cuban, Spanish and French literatures.

f.viala@warwick.ac.uk
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Cultural memory in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds.

alison.menezes@warwick.ac.uk
Raquel Navas

Ms Raquel Navas
Applied linguistics, second language acquisition and new technologies to support language learning.

r.navas@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Rich Rabone Dr Rich Rabone
Early modern Spanish literature and thought, 1500-1700; the reception of classical authorities; emblems.
r.rabone@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Clemencia Rodas-Pérez

Dr Clemencia Rodas-Pérez
Bridging the gap between expert and lay speakers in medical communication in Spanish; identification of university educators and students' discursive strategies in relation to academic writing situated in bilingual and inter-cultural contexts.

m.c.rodas-perez@warwick.ac.uk
Leticia Villamediana González

Dr Leticia Villamediana González
18th-century Spanish literature, culture and intellectual history; Anglo-Spanish cultural transfers and Spanish periodical press.

l.villamediana-gonzalez@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Tom Whittaker Dr Tom Whittaker
Spanish cinema; sound studies; cinematic geographies, mobility and architecture in film.
t.whittaker@warwick.ac.uk

 

Italian Studies

 

Dr Valentina Abbatelli

Foreign language pedagogy; Translation Studies; Children's literature; Fascism

v.abbatelli.1@warwick.ac.uk
 

Professor Jennifer Burns
Migration literature in Italian; post-war narrative fiction; late nineteenth-century literary cultures; political and ethical issues in literature; cinema.

j.e.burns@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Fabio A. Camilletti

Dr Fabio A. Camilletti
Nineteenth-century literature and culture from a comparative perspective (Italy, England, France, Germany); critical and literary theory.

F.Camilletti@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Joanne Lee

Dr Joanne Lee
Travel writing; writings on Italian emigration and contemporary immigration; representations of Italy's colonial past; post-war Italian women's writing.

jo.lee@warwick.ac.uk
Dr David Lines

Professor David Lines
Medieval and Renaissance Europe (with a focus on Italy), particularly the classical tradition; intellectual history; institutions of culture and learning; libraries and history of the book.

D.A.Lines@warwick.ac.uk
 

Dr Mila Milani
20th century Italian literature and culture; Intellectual History; History of Publishing; Periodical Studies; Sociology of Translation; Cultural Translation and Transculturalism; Translation Studies

M.Milani@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Cecilia Piantanida

Dr Cecilia Piantanida
Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture from comparative and transnational perspectives.

Cecilia.Piantanida@warwick.ac.uk

 

Translation and Transcultural Studies

Dr Will Amos

Dr Will Amos

Sociolinguistics; language contact; regional and minority languages; language and gender; translation and transcultural studies

W.Amos@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Olga Castro

Dr Olga Castro
Translation and the construction of gender and national identities in the Hispanic world; feminist translation studies; women writers in translation; the politics of translation in non-hegemonic cultures; the transnational travels of texts; self-translation in multilingual contexts; Galician Studies.

Olga.Castro@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Qian Liu

Dr Qian Liu
20th-and 21st-century Chinese literature, reception of European literature in China at the turn of the 20th-century, theories and practices of literary translation.

Qian.Liu.1@warwick.ac.uk

 

Dr Mila Milani
20th century Italian literature and culture; Intellectual History; History of Publishing; Periodical Studies; Sociology of Translation; Cultural Translation and Transculturalism; Translation Studies.

M.Milani@warwick.ac.uk
Dr Lee Purvis

Dr Lee Purvis
Translation and memory (sites of memory, cultural memory studies, travelling memory); Translation and place/space (cities, streets, buildings, archives, museums); Narratology and paratextual studies; Ethnography and narrative inquiry.

lee.purvis@warwick.ac.uk