DPhil Students
Celtic
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Kristýna Syrová | The Language of Metamorphosis in Early Medieval Ireland | , Mark Williams, , Heather O'Donoghue | St John's | more » |
French
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Nora Baker | Writing Exile : the Huguenot refugees in 18th-century England' (Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship) | Catriona Seth | Jesus | more » |
Joseph Begley | New | more » | ||
Rachel Benoit | A symbiotic reading of Flaubert and Faulkner | Carole J A Bourne-Taylor | Brasenose | more » |
Anna Branford | Marian lyric in late medieval urban centres in France and Germany | more » | ||
Sarah Bridge | The Audience and Reception of the Works of Nicole Bozon: An Analysis of British Library Additional MS 46919 | Daron Burrows | St Hilda's | more » |
Sophia Buck | Moscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison | Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan | more » | |
Marie Chabbert | Faithful Deicides: Contemporary French Thought and Enchantment After the Death of God | Ian Maclachlan | Wolfson | more » |
Zana Chaka | Myth and Allegory in the Works of Albert Camus and Ismail Kadare | Toby Garfitt | Pembroke | more » |
Madeleine Chalmers | Unruly technics in the French literary avant-garde: technological writings of the Third Republic and their afterlives in contemporary thought | Nikolaj Lübecker | Trinity | more » |
Lo-Ching Chow | Comparative Analysis of the Ideology of Insanity in 20th and 21st-Century Postcolonial Societies | Jane Hiddleston | St Catherine's | more » |
Helen Craske | Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature | Andrew Counter | Merton | more » |
Dr Marie Daouda | French literature and history of ideas - Desperate Prayer from Baudelaire to Bernanos: Blessings, Curses, and the Crisis of the Epic model | more » | ||
Erin Dolan | Localized Liminality: Translation and multimodality in the work of Julien Green and Paul Bowles | Patrick McGuinness, Matthew Reynolds | St Anne's | more » |
Lucas Eigel | Bucolic poetry around 1900 in Germany and France | Charlie Louth | Merton | more » |
Mathieu Farizier | Jesus | more » | ||
Louise Ferris | Proust through the lens of Derrida, Nancy and Malabou: the breaking down of the distinction between the self and world in new forms of materiality | Ian Maclachlan | Jesus | more » |
Carlos F. Grigsby | Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation | Maria Blanco, Ben Bollig | St Anne's | more » |
Emma Goodwin | Conceptualising national identity in twelfth-century chansons de geste composed in French | , Hannah Skoda | Merton | more » |
Daisy Gudmunsen | Poetry and the Limit Experience in Contemporary French Literature | Ian Maclachlan, Patrick McGuinness | St Antony's | more » |
Rachel Hindmarsh | ‘Reassessing Rabelais: Medicine and Folklore in Renaissance France’, in the fields of Renaissance Studies and the medical humanities. | more » | ||
Nicola Holt | Wolfson | more » | ||
Aaron Gabriel Hughes | 20th-Century French thought. "Using the experience of illness as a model for understanding otherness as anchored in the body" | Christina Howells, Simon Kemp | Balliol | more » |
Nathalie Jeter | Queen's | more » | ||
Simon Kerr | The ‘enveloppe close’: Reading minds in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu | Jennifer Yee | Keble | more » |
Hannie Lawlor | Steadying the Seesaw? Renegotiating Relationality in Contemporary French and Spanish Women's Life-Writing | Marie-Chantal Killeen, Daniela Omlor | Wolfson | more » |
Alex Lawrence | The Cultural 'Lives' of the Toucan in Early Modern France (1526-1650) | Wes Williams, Raphaële Garrod | Keble | more » |
Jiyoung Lee | Ethical Attitudes in Contemporary Cinema: The Construction and Relation between Filmic Aesthetics and Historicity in Cinema | Reidar Due | Wadham | more » |
Andrey Levitskiy | Reformation Interrupted: Renovationist Movement in the Russian Orthodox Church (1917-1929) | Julie Curtis, Professor Stephen Smith | Balliol | more » |
Eleanor Lischka | Proust and poetry: lyric subjectivity and poetic voice in the work of Marcel Proust | more » | ||
Fay Lomas | Narratives of Confession in France from Musset to Zola | Tim Farrant | Trinity | more » |
Micah Mackay | 'Make We Ioye Nowe in this Fest': 'Reading' Performance and Orality in Late Medieval Carols | Helen Swift, Marion Turner | Balliol | more » |
Harriet McKinley-Smith | Relating Romantic Disabilities | Catriona Seth, Fiona Stafford | Jesus | more » |
Gemma McKinnie | The weaponisation of the Camera: Terrorism, Uprisings and Revolution in Film and Television | Reidar Due | Linacre | more » |
Waqas Mirza | A comparative reading of Beckett’s French and English trilogy: how self-translation affects the figuration of inner life | Simon Kemp | Lincoln | more » |
Christopher Monier | Words-that-Tell: Monchoachi and Poetic Hope | Jane Hiddleston | Magdalen | more » |
Srinandini Mukherjee | A Cognitive Literary Approach to Tzvetan Todorov’s Theory and Texts | Tim Farrant | St Cross | more » |
Nathalie Oddy | Presence of mind and the body's memory: cognition and consubstantiality in Montaigne's 'Essais' | Wes Williams | Brasenose | more » |
Nupur Patel | An examination of the topos and tropes of pudeur (modesty) in sixteenth-century French women's writing and French society | Wes Williams | Lincoln | more » |
Robert Pruett | Remy de Gourmont and the Symbolism of Chastity: Archetypes of Erotic Abstraction | Patrick McGuinness | St Cross | more » |
Cameron Quinn | (Re)considering Enlightenment Utopians | Caroline Warman | Merton | more » |
Rebecca Short | The moralising potential of levity, gaiety, and frivolity in the works of Louis-Antoine Caraccioli | Catriona Seth | St Hilda's | more » |
Yvette Siegert | Representations of Cartagena de Indias: An Intellectual History, 1815-2016 | Maria Blanco | Merton | more » |
Elena Sorochina | "Field: Enlightenment studies Research proposal title:Representation and Omission: fantasy and the unrepresentable in French sylph narratives" | more » | ||
Lillian Specker | Ghosts of Colonies Past: Spectrality and Haunting in 21st Century Algerian Francophone Literature | Jane Hiddleston | St Antony's | more » |
Nicholas Stedman | Charles Nodier & the rise of problematic notions of authorial originality in French letters from the 18th to the 19th century | Kate Tunstall, Tim Farrant | St Edmund Hall | more » |
McNeil Taylor | Vital Landscapes and Radical Passivity in Contemporary Slow Cinema | Nikolaj Lübecker | St John's | more » |
German
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Jonas Bozenhard | Queen's | more » | ||
Anna Branford | Marian lyric in late medieval urban centres in France and Germany | more » | ||
Sophia Buck | Moscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison | Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan | more » | |
Niamh Burns | Rethinking the language of modernism with Gerda Walther (1897–1977): mysticism, philosophy, art | Ben Morgan | New | more » |
Shivani Chauhan | A critical analysis of mnemonic frameworks and literary devices in selected family narratives by women writers from Central and Eastern Europe | Karen Leeder | St Anne's | more » |
Natascha Domeisen | Jesus | more » | ||
Lucas-Jan Dörre | My project will investigate the importance of walking for German poetry since modernity, embedded in the long tradition of detours in German thought. | Karen Leeder | New | more » |
Georgina Edwards | Building on Bildung in the 20th century – individual and institutional learning in Wittgenstein and Hesse | Ben Morgan | Worcester | more » |
Lucas Eigel | Bucolic poetry around 1900 in Germany and France | Charlie Louth | Merton | more » |
Sarah Fengler | Jesus | more » | ||
Carolin Gluchowski | New | more » | ||
Jamie Thomas Green | A comparative, multilingual study of South Tyrolean literature since 1969 and its role in shaping a modern, multicultural regional identity. | Guido Bonsaver, Katrin Kohl | St Peter's | more » |
Alexandra Hertlein | St Catherine's | more » | ||
Gesa Jessen | Nature after Romanticism. Literary Explorations of the Natural World in the Works of Heine, Lenau, Droste-Hülshoff | Ritchie Robertson | Wolfson | more » |
Oliver Jones | Die Fähigkeit zu trauern? Memory of War Experience and Totalitarianism in the work of Vasilii Grossman and Heinrich Böll | Polly Jones, Carolin Duttlinger | University | more » |
Luise Morawetz | Hertford | more » | ||
Aoife Ní Chroidheáin | Stasi and Samizdat: From Infiltration to Infiltration Art | Karen Leeder | St Hugh's | more » |
Andreas Schmid | Networks of Knowledge in Dadaism | Carolin Duttlinger | Christ Church | more » |
Byron Spring | Thomas Bernhard and World Literature | Ben Morgan | Brasenose | more » |
Florian Stocker | 'Da fügte es der Himmel oder der Zufall' - Religiöses Wissen bei Adalbert Stifter | Ritchie Robertson | Queen's | more » |
Mai-Britt Wiechmann | The Printers' Influence: Publishing, Piety and the Passion of Christ in Lübeck around 1500 | Henrike Lähnemann | Somerville | more » |
Italian
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Roberto Binetti | Voices from a minor literature. Italian women's poetry (1968-1982) | Emanuela Tandello, Nicola Gardini | St Anne's | more » |
Olmo Calzolari | Evolution and disease in Leopardi and Svevo | Emanuela Tandello, Giuseppe Stellardi | Keble | more » |
Lucandrea Campanelli | Il Cammin di Nostra Lingua: Ruggero Bonghi and the Italian Language | Emanuela Tandello, Guido Bonsaver | Christ Church | more » |
Frances Clemente | Ecstasy in Italian culture. 1861-1914 | Giuseppe Stellardi, Emanuela Tandello | Pembroke | more » |
Emily Di Dodo | A critical edition of the medieval Castilian translation of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' | Juan-Carlos Conde | Magdalen | more » |
Caroline Dormor | Dante's Ante-Purgatory | Francesca Southerden, Simon Gilson | Balliol | more » |
Francesco Feriozzi | The Reception of Troubadour Poetry in 16th-Century Italy: from The Questione della Lingua to Giammaria Barbieri’s Arte del Rimare | Simon Gilson | St Catherine's | more » |
Dr A Grassi Pucci | Italian/Cinema- Bringing It All Back Home: Adaptations of Italy-related Lingua-Cultural Aspects from Hollywood Cinema into Italian Dubbed Versions | St Hugh's | more » | |
Jamie Thomas Green | A comparative, multilingual study of South Tyrolean literature since 1969 and its role in shaping a modern, multicultural regional identity. | Guido Bonsaver, Katrin Kohl | St Peter's | more » |
Martyna Grzesiak | Italian book history: A copy census of the first printed Italian Bible translation by Nicolò Malerbi (1471). | more » | ||
Lachlan Hughes | Traditions of Sung Vernacular Lyric in Medieval Italy and Their Relationship to Dante’s Commedia | Francesca Southerden, Elizabeth Eva Leach | Merton | more » |
Zita Teresa Lanzara | Correspondences in Italian and American 19th- and 20th century literature, focusing on the dilemma ‘To Be or to Be Someone Else’. | Giuseppe Stellardi, Michele Mendelssohn | St Edmund Hall | more » |
Luca Mazzocchi | On Carlo Emilio Gadda's «L'Adalgisa - Disegni milanesi» | Giuseppe Stellardi | Exeter | more » |
Hannah McIntyre | Leonora Carrington and Goliarda Sapienza: Anarchic Bodies, 20th century literature in Italian, English and French. | Giuseppe Stellardi, Laura Marcus | Pembroke | more » |
Barbara Olla | Italian modern literature. "Beyond the Veil: a study of symbols, archetypes and mythopoeia in the works of Carlo Emilio | Giuseppe Stellardi | St Peter's | more » |
Alice Parrinello | St Cross | more » | ||
Elena Sorochina | "Field: Enlightenment studies Research proposal title:Representation and Omission: fantasy and the unrepresentable in French sylph narratives" | more » | ||
Valentina Tibaldo | Voice, alterity, and dialogue: the spoken language in Caproni's and Sereni’s poetry | Emanuela Tandello | St Hugh's | more » |
Alessandro Zammataro | Wolfson | more » |
Modern Greek
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Trisevgeni Bilia | New | more » | ||
Vasileios Mitsikakos | St Cross | more » | ||
Giulia Maria Paoletti | 'The Multifarious Muse: Two Palaeologan Collections of Paraenetic Chapters'. | Marc Lauxtermann | Exeter | more » |
Alice Parrinello | St Cross | more » | ||
Alberto Ravani | Edition and commentary of John Tzetzes' Allegories of the Iliad | Marc Lauxtermann | Exeter | more » |
Claudio Russello | Greek Literature of the 1960s - A Case of Metamodernism | Dimitris Papanikolaou | Merton | more » |
Pany Xenophontos | Visuality and the visual arts in the works of Joseph Brodsky | Andrei Zorin | St Anne's | more » |
Other Slavonic
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Constanța Burlacu | Understanding the Establishment of Romanian as Church Language in the 16th-17th Centuries on the Basis of Two Case Studies: Psalter and Apostolos Texts | Martin Maiden, Ralph Cleminson | Merton | more » |
Olga Grochowska | Lady Margaret Hall | more » | ||
Aleksandra Majak | Comparative research between the Polish and English poetry of the 1960s with emphasis on poetic borrowing, translation studies, and poetic sequence | , Jan Fellerer, , Hannah Sullivan | New | more » |
Portuguese
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Rafael Esteves Martins | Santa Rita Durão and the Brazilian Colonial Epic | Professor Phillip Rothwell | St Peter's | more » |
Olivia Glaze | Gender and the Embodiment of Trauma in Post-Imperial Portuguese Women’s Writing | Claudia Pazos Alonso | Wadham | more » |
Katarzyna Jaroszewicz | Brasenose | more » | ||
Georgia Nasseh | 'Banza-o o léxico, o patuá?': Translating Multilingualism in the Work of José Luandino Vieira | Professor Phillip Rothwell | Wadham | more » |
Catriona Parry | Lincoln | more » | ||
Tom Stennett | António Quadros and His Alter Egos | Professor Phillip Rothwell | St Anne's | more » |
Andrzej Stuart-Thompson | Feminist Anti-Epic Poetry & the Portuguese Canon: Gendered Bodies, Rhizomatic Reimaginings, Queer Spectres, & Marginal Utopias from the 1960s to the Present Day | Claudia Pazos Alonso | Lincoln | more » |
Javier Armando Takamura | Jesuit missions in Japan | , Alan Strathern, , Giuseppe Marcocci | St Catherine's | more » |
Russian
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Ismene Brown | The only woman: otherness and gender in the powerplay and memorialisation of Soviet politician Ekaterina Furtseva. | Catriona Kelly | St Hugh's | more » |
Sophia Buck | Moscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison | Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan | more » | |
Peter Budrin | From Resurrection to Rehabilitation: Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Soviet Russia 1918-1941 | Andrei Zorin | Lady Margaret Hall | more » |
Constanța Burlacu | Understanding the Establishment of Romanian as Church Language in the 16th-17th Centuries on the Basis of Two Case Studies: Psalter and Apostolos Texts | Martin Maiden, Ralph Cleminson | Merton | more » |
Margaret Frainier | The Russian Opera Libretto as Preached and Practiced in the 19th Century | Philip Ross Bullock | Merton | more » |
Andrei Gross | Ethics and poetics of the Dissident Self: the life and writings of Alexander Esenin-Vol'pin | Andrei Zorin | St Antony's | more » |
Oliver Jones | Die Fähigkeit zu trauern? Memory of War Experience and Totalitarianism in the work of Vasilii Grossman and Heinrich Böll | Polly Jones, Carolin Duttlinger | University | more » |
Abigail Karas | On Top of the City: Roofing, rights to space and the fight for St Petersburg’s panoramas | more » | ||
Andrey Levitskiy | Reformation Interrupted: Renovationist Movement in the Russian Orthodox Church (1917-1929) | Julie Curtis, Professor Stephen Smith | Balliol | more » |
Victoria Musvik | Perestroika as a Memory Hole: Selective Amnesia and the Affective Revival of the Perestroika Years and the Early Nineties in Russia | Catriona Kelly | Pembroke | more » |
Katherine New | Mythopoesis in Neoclassical Drama | Catriona Kelly | New | more » |
Irina Pavlova | Studying Russian Drama by Means of Digital Humanities and Social Network Analysis | Julie Curtis | Wolfson | more » |
Elena Racheva | War Without Peace. The Discourse of Violence in Recent Russian History | Catriona Kelly | New | more » |
Olga Smolyak | The Social Construction of Domestic Space in the Brezhnev Era (1964-1982) | Catriona Kelly | Brasenose | more » |
Alex Trustrum Thomas | Experimentation in contemporary Russian theatre since 2010 | Julie Curtis | University | more » |
Pany Xenophontos | Visuality and the visual arts in the works of Joseph Brodsky | Andrei Zorin | St Anne's | more » |
Spanish
Name | Research Topic | Supervisor | College | |
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Rebecca Jillian Beattie | Investigating the Modernity of the Works of Baltasar Gracián | Jonathan Thacker | Hertford | more » |
Leonardo Bevilacqua | Spanish American and North American studies - Impersonal Selves, Personalized Communities: Flat Characters in the Neoliberal Novel | Maria Blanco | Trinity | more » |
Maria Czepiel | Classical Allusion and the Syncresis of Pagan and Biblical Letters in Benito Arias Montano's 'Humanae Salutis Monumenta' | Jonathan Thacker | Lincoln | more » |
Jacobo De Camps Mora | Walter Benjamin's Baroque Architecture: Baltasar Gracián, Calderón de la Barca, and the Rhetoric of Shock in Interwar Germany | Jonathan Thacker, Ben Morgan | more » | |
Rebecca De Souza | Medievalism and literary afterlives: a diachronic study of Los siete infantes de Lara | Geraldine Hazbun | Hertford | more » |
Emily Di Dodo | A critical edition of the medieval Castilian translation of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' | Juan-Carlos Conde | Magdalen | more » |
Carlos F. Grigsby | Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation | Maria Blanco, Ben Bollig | St Anne's | more » |
Claudia E. García Muñoz | Saint or Sinner?: The Multiple Faces of Lucretia in the Golden Age of Spain | Oliver Noble Wood | Wolfson | more » |
Laura González Salmerón | Intersections between Science and Literature: Anglophone influences in contemporary Spanish fiction | Daniela Omlor, Maria Blanco | Wolfson | more » |
Minying Huang | Tradition as Process in Twentieth-Century Latin American Arab Poetry | Ben Bollig, Mohamed-Salah Omri | St John's | more » |
Katarzyna Jaroszewicz | Brasenose | more » | ||
Hannie Lawlor | Steadying the Seesaw? Renegotiating Relationality in Contemporary French and Spanish Women's Life-Writing | Marie-Chantal Killeen, Daniela Omlor | Wolfson | more » |
Eduardo Paredes Ocampo | Performance studies/ Cognitive humanities 1616/2016: Neuronal Catharsis in the Contemporary Performances of Shakespeare and Cervantes | Jonathan Thacker, Emma Josephine Smith | Wolfson | more » |
Michael F. Peters Jr. | Juan-Carlos Conde, María Morrás, Mar | Jesus | more » | |
Marina Popea | Literary Translation in Mexican Cultural Magazines: From Modernismo to the Avant-Garde (1894-1931) | Maria Blanco | Lincoln | more » |
Lorena Sanchez Gallego | Synergies between Peninsular and English Gothic representations of phobias and psychosomatic conditions | , Dr. Sandie Byrne | Kellogg | more » |
Yvette Siegert | Representations of Cartagena de Indias: An Intellectual History, 1815-2016 | Maria Blanco | Merton | more » |
