Staff research interests

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

Chinese Studies
	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 dot Liu dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk
French Studies
	Professor Jeremy Ahearne 20th- and 21st-century culture, politics and thought.	J dot N dot Ahearne at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Will Amos Sociolinguistics; language contact; regional and minority languages	W dot Amos at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Katherine Astbury 18th- and 19th-century French and German literature; the French Revolution.	Katherine dot Astbury at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Emma Campbell French Medieval Studies; critical theory.	Emma dot Campbell at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Oliver Davis Modern and contemporary French literature; philosophy and critical theory.	O dot Davis at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Ingrid De Smet 16th- and 17th-century European literature and society; early modern culture.	I dot de-Smet at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Clément Dessy 19th and 20th-century French literature; transnational cultural exchanges between England, France and Belgium (1880-1930); Text & Image studies.	C dot Dessy at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture 19th- and 20th-century French and Belgian literature; francophone (post)colonial literature and thought; African philosophy.	P-P dot Fraiture at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Catherine Hampton 16th-century literature; French Renaissance court society and culture.	C dot M dot Hampton at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Seán Hand Modern and contemporary literature, autobiography and ethnography; French philosophy and theory; ethics, globalization and governance.	S dot Hand at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Mary Harrod Film and media studies; cultural and gender studies; critical theory and aesthetics.	M dot G dot M dot Harrod at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Julia Hartley 19th-century French literature, Orientalism, Persian poetry (translation and reception), Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, Dante's Divine Comedy.	Julia dot Hartley at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Nick Hewlett Modern French politics and society; modern French political thought.	N dot P dot Hewlett at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Emeritus Leslie Hill Philosophy and critical theory; modern and contemporary fiction; film studies.	leslie dot hill at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr David Lees Modern French history and politics.	D dot W dot Lees at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Stefano Milonia Old French and Occitan; Medieval Italian Literature; Ecdotics, Textual Criticism, Manuscript Studies; Medieval Music; Digital Humanities; 21^st Century Poetry	Stefano dot Milonia at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Douglas Morrey Film studies; contemporary French fiction; cultural studies.	D dot J dot Morrey at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Emerita Linda Paterson Medieval French and Occitan literature and history.	L dot M dot Paterson at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Christopher W. Thompson 19th-century literature and art; travel literature; ethnographic and other film.	cw2thompson at gmail dot com
	Dr Jessica Wardhaugh Modern French history; street politics; popular theatre; right-wing culture.	J dot Wardhaugh at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Margaux Whiskin 18th-century literature and thought.	M dot Whiskin at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Susannah Wilson 19th- and 20th-century literature; women's writing; cultural and medical history.	S dot M dot Wilson at warwick dot ac dot uk

German Studies
	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 dot E dot Achinger at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot a dot burns at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Elisabeth Herrmann 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 dot Herrmann at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot r dot hodkinson at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Andrea Klaus Second language acquisition, teaching and learning in Higher Education, translation theory and practice, gender studies (women in the workforce)	a dot g dot klaus at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Julian Koch Post-WWII German and French poetry; image and word relations; narratology; documentaries on genocide; analytical approaches to continental philosophy (esp. Kant); philosophical notions of the imagination (18-19th century)	Julian dot Koch at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Ian Roberts Film and culture in the German Weimar Republic 1919-1933; representations of war and the soldier in contemporary European cinema.	i dot g dot roberts at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot schmitz at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Linda Shortt Twentieth and twenty-first century German-language literature and film: post-war German memory studies: protest and extra-parliamentary politics in the FRG: cultural representations of place, belonging and attachment, as well as borders, migration and dislocation: literary and filmic depictions of illness, ageing, human suffering and death: cultural translation and transculturalism.	L dot Shortt at warwick dot ac dot 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 dot Stone at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot Wiese at warwick dot ac dot uk

Hispanic Studies
	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 dot Castro at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Michela Coletta Intellectual and cultural history of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.	m dot coletta at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr 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 dot hooper at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Fabienne Manicom Comparative studies on the Latin American and francophone historical novel, national memory and crime fiction in Cuban, Spanish and French literatures.	f dot viala at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes Cultural memory in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds.	alison dot menezes at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Ms Raquel Navas Applied linguistics, second language acquisition and new technologies to support language learning.	r dot navas at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Rich Rabone Early modern Spanish literature and thought, 1500-1700; the reception of classical authorities; emblems.	r dot rabone at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot c dot rodas-perez at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Leticia Villamediana González 18th-century Spanish literature, culture and intellectual history; Anglo-Spanish cultural transfers and Spanish periodical press.	l dot villamediana-gonzalez at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Tom Whittaker Spanish cinema; sound studies; cinematic geographies, mobility and architecture in film.	t dot whittaker at warwick dot ac dot uk

Italian Studies
	Professor Jennifer Burns Migration literature in Italian; post-war narrative fiction; late nineteenth-century literary cultures; political and ethical issues in literature; cinema.	j dot e dot burns at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Fabio A. Camilletti Nineteenth-century literature and culture from a comparative perspective (Italy, England, France, Germany); critical and literary theory.	F dot Camilletti at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Professor Simon Gilson Dante, especially his scientific, philosophical and theological culture; The Dante commentary tradition, c. 1322-1570; interactions between science and literature (but also philosophy, theology, literature) in late medieval Italy; Dante's critical reception and the cultural, literary and intellectual history of fourteenth-, fifteenth-, and sixteenth-century Italy, especially Tuscany and the Veneto.	S dot Gilson at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot lee at warwick dot ac dot uk
	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 dot A dot Lines at warwick dot ac dot 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 dot Milani at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Caterina Sinibaldi Foreign language pedagogy; Translation Studies; Children's literature; Fascism	C dot Sinibaldi at warwick dot ac dot uk
	Dr Maude Vanhaelen Reception of philosophy in the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries.	M dot Vanhaelen at warwick dot ac dot uk