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Dr Marc Olivier St John's more »

Celtic

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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
Nora Baker Writing Exile : the Huguenot refugees in 18th-century England' (Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship) Catriona Seth Jesus more »
Clara Baudet Grand Tourists and Marginal Figures in Early Romantic Naples Jesus more »
Joseph Begley Memory and trauma: Representations of the French Revolution in the 19th-century novel Andrew Counter New more »
Rachel Benoit A symbiotic reading of Flaubert and Faulkner Carole J. A. Bourne-Taylor Brasenose more »
Irina Boeru St Hilda's more »
Rebecca Boyd Queer identities in the works of Renée Vivien Seth Whidden St Hugh's more »
Sophia Buck Moscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan more »
Zana Chaka Myth and Allegory in the Works of Albert Camus and Ismail Kadare Toby Garfitt Pembroke more »
Ramani Chandramohan Conceptualising conversion: reading Herbert’s 'Li Romans de Dolopathos' in its manuscript context Daron Burrows Queen's more »
Sebastian Dows-Miller 'What's in a Manuscript?' : Towards a codicological and textual analysis of BnF fr. 24432 Daron Burrows St Hilda's more »
Tess Eastgate Marie-Antoinette: A Queen of Letters Catriona Seth Keble 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 »
Lillian Fontaine (Specker) Ghosts of Colonies Past: Spectrality and Haunting in 21st Century Algerian Francophone Literature Jane Hiddleston St Antony's more »
Anna Glieden Representation and Perception of Sculptures in French Eighteenth-Century Literature Catriona Seth Oriel more »
Emma Goodwin Conceptualising national identity in twelfth-century chansons de geste composed in French , Hannah Skoda Merton more »
Aditi Gupta Gentil as diplomat, writer, patron and collector: A page in the history of eighteenth-century Indo-French cultural relations Catriona Seth Exeter more »
Alice Hawkins Feminine Subjectivity and Virtue in Medieval Romance: the cases of Guinevere and Iseut Sophie Marnette St Hilda's more »
Rachel Hindmarsh Medicine, Time, and Narrative in Rabelais Trinity more »
Nicola Holt What can literature do that philosophy can’t? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch Christina Howells, Simon Kemp Wolfson more »
Michelle Chunhan Hsu Gender and Empire in Turn-of-the-Century French Literature on China Jennifer Yee Wadham more »
Adam Husain Unity and Transformation in À la recherche: Proust through the lens of Catherine Malabou Ian Maclachlan Christ Church more »
Nathalie Jeter Memory, materiality, and metis in Huguenot refugee escape tales Wes Williams, Katherine Ibbett Queen's more »
Liam Johnston-McCondach Le Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics Barry Murnane, Ian Maclachlan New more »
Simon Kerr The ‘enveloppe close’: Reading minds in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu Jennifer Yee Keble more »
Maya Kucinskas The transgressive body in films by Akira Kurosawa and Shohei Imamura (Film Aesthetics) Reidar Due St Cross more »
Alex Lawrence The Cultural 'Lives' of the Toucan in Early Modern France (1526-1650) Wes Williams, Raphaële Garrod Keble more »
Andrey Levitskiy Reformation Interrupted: Renovationist Movement in the Russian Orthodox Church (1917-1929) Julie Curtis, Professor Stephen Smith Balliol more »
Robert Ley Representations of consumption from medieval chansons to geste to François Rabelais Raphaële Garrod, Sophie Marnette Magdalen more »
Eleanor Lischka Proust and poetry: lyric subjectivity and poetic voice in the work of Marcel Proust more »
Micah Mackay 'Make We Ioye Nowe in this Fest': 'Reading' Performance and Orality in Late Medieval Carols Helen Swift, Marion Turner Balliol more »
Marie Martine 'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century Barry Murnane, Jennifer Yee Hertford more »
Harriet McKinley-Smith Relating Romantic Disabilities Catriona Seth, Fiona Stafford Jesus 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 »
Srinandini Mukherjee Visualising Todorov's Hesitation in Fantastic Fiction: A Cognitive Literary Approach Tim Farrant, Emily Troscianko St Cross more »
Roger Navas i Solé The Reception of 'Don Quijote' in 19th-Century France Andrew Counter, Jonathan Thacker Trinity more »
Lynn Nguyen Between fact and fiction: History, storytelling, and ethics in contemporary French literature of the Second World War Ève Morisi, Carole J. A. Bourne-Taylor St John's more »
Erin Nickalls Localized Liminality: Translation and multimodality in the work of Julien Green and Paul Bowles Patrick McGuinness, Matthew Reynolds St Anne's more »
Jack Nunn Anthological Artistry: The Grands Rhétoriqueurs in Manuscript and Early Print Helen Swift Exeter more »
Dr Marc Olivier St John's more »
Sasho Pshenko The late thought of Gilles Deleuze, as presented in Cinema, structuralism, film, literature Reidar Due Magdalen more »
Cameron Quinn (Re)considering Enlightenment Utopians Caroline Warman Merton more »
Olivia Russell Releasing reminiscences: the process of imagination in the autobiographical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Giacomo Casanova Caroline Warman St Hugh's more »
Hannah Scheithauer Cross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German Ève Morisi, Georgina Paul Queen's more »
Rebecca Short Self-Fashioning in the Works of Louis-Antoine Caraccioli Catriona Seth St Hilda's more »
Elena Sorochina "Field: Enlightenment studies Research proposal title:Representation and Omission: fantasy and the unrepresentable in French sylph narratives" 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 »
Dana Vuckovic The Consecration and Canonization of Balzac as a Classic Writer: Between the Educational Institution, Adaptation and the Serialized Novel Tim Farrant, Carole J. A. Bourne-Taylor Brasenose more »
Elly Walters Sinking Feelings: Water and Distress in Twenty-First-Century Francophone Women’s Writing Simon Kemp Wadham more »
Anna Wilmore Late Medieval Marian Lyric in Urban Spaces: the Poetry of the Puys and the Singschule Almut Suerbaum, Helen Swift St Anne's more »
Jingyan Zhang St Peter's more »

German

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Sophia Buck Moscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan 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 »
Ro Crawford Klaus Mann, Genre Theory and the Queer Novel David Groiser, Kirstin Gwyer Lincoln 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 »
Mareike Sophie Drünkler Weeklies, Women and the Will to Reform – Alternative Forms of Female Participation in the German Enlightenment Barry Murnane, Avi Lifschitz Balliol 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 European Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment Katrin Kohl Jesus more »
Sophie Forst Enlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century Barry Murnane, Christoph Schmitt-Maass Balliol more »
Carolin Gluchowski Revising Private Prayerbooks. The Latin/Low-German Prayerbooks from the Cistercian Convent of Medingen in the Context of Late-Medieval Church Reforms Henrike Lähnemann New more »
Alexandra Hertlein St Catherine's more »
Roberto Interdonato Light and darkness in the work of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) and Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) Karen Leeder, Vilma de Gasperin St John's more »
Liam Johnston-McCondach Le Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics Barry Murnane, Ian Maclachlan New more »
Julia Lorenz Measuring Intensity – A New Methodological Approach towards Medieval Relationships Annette Volfing Merton more »
Marie Martine 'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century Barry Murnane, Jennifer Yee Hertford more »
Luise Morawetz The Glosses of the Murbach Hymns. A Study on Syntax and Language Use in Old High German Henrike Lähnemann Hertford more »
Aoife Ní Chroidheáin Stasi and Samizdat: From Infiltration to Infiltration Art Karen Leeder St Hugh's more »
Isabel Parkinson Translating the 'erzaehlte Innenwelt': Analysing English translations of German-language women-authored consciousness narratives. Georgina Paul St Hugh's more »
Hannah Scheithauer Cross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German Ève Morisi, Georgina Paul Queen's more »
Marlene Schilling Personification as Devotional Strategy in Middle Low German Literature Henrike Lähnemann Lincoln more »
Andreas Schmid Avant-Garde and Anthropology Carolin Duttlinger Christ Church more »
Sarah Schwarz The Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann Ben Morgan Queen's more »
Santhia Velasco Kittlaus Carolin Duttlinger Pembroke more »
Mai-Britt Wiechmann The Printers' Influence: Publishing, Piety and the Passion of Christ in Lübeck around 1500 Henrike Lähnemann Somerville more »
Anna Wilmore Late Medieval Marian Lyric in Urban Spaces: the Poetry of the Puys and the Singschule Almut Suerbaum, Helen Swift St Anne's more »

Italian

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Pietro Bordi Modern Dante Iconography Simon Gilson Balliol more »
Olmo Calzolari Life and Disease in Leopardi and Svevo Emanuela Tandello, Giuseppe Stellardi Keble more »
Beatrice Carlini Elsa Morante and Goliarda Sapienza in dialogue: Religion, Sadomasochism and Queer Identities Francesca Southerden, Emma Bond Regent's Park more »
Peerawat Chiaranunt Creation in Dante's Oeuvre Simon Gilson Jesus more »
Frances Clemente The ecstatic dis-order: cultural and literary perspectives on post-Unification Italy (1861-1914) Giuseppe Stellardi, Emanuela Tandello Pembroke more »
Luca Costa Giacomo Leopardi and the Roots of Existentialism. An account of Leopardi and the existentialist developments of his philosophical thought Nicola Gardini, Alessandra Aloisi Keble more »
Emily Di Dodo A critical edition of the medieval Castilian translation of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' Juan-Carlos Conde Magdalen 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 »
Martyna Grzesiak Italian book history: A copy census of the first printed Italian Bible translation by Nicolò Malerbi (1471). more »
Lachlan Hughes Lyric Personae: Vernacular Song in Dante's Florence Francesca Southerden, Elizabeth Eva Leach Merton more »
Roberto Interdonato Light and darkness in the work of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) and Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) Karen Leeder, Vilma de Gasperin St John's more »
Joseph Kelly Fascism for Export: Radio and Italian Fascist 'Universalismo' (1932-1943) Guido Bonsaver Blackfriars 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 A Reading of «L'Adalgisa». For Carlo Emilio Gadda as Satirist Giuseppe Stellardi Exeter more »
Dr Marc Olivier St John's more »
Alice Parrinello Queering the South: A Case Study on Emma Dante Dimitris Papanikolaou, Alberica Bazzoni, Guido Bonsaver 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 »
Victoria White The Ethics of Loyalty: decoding the loyalty gene in the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) Simon Gilson, Martin Mclaughlin Balliol more »
Alessandro Zammataro Wolfson more »

Linguistics

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Dr Marc Olivier St John's more »

Modern Greek

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Trisevgeni Bilia New more »
Billie Mitsikakos C. P. Cavafy and the Art of Queer Survival Dimitris Papanikolaou Merton more »
Alice Parrinello Queering the South: A Case Study on Emma Dante Dimitris Papanikolaou, Alberica Bazzoni, Guido Bonsaver St Cross more »
Alberto Ravani John Tzetzes' Allegories of the Iliad: introduction and partial edition Marc Lauxtermann Exeter more »
Claudio Russello Greek Literature of the 1960s - A Case of Metamodernism Dimitris Papanikolaou Merton more »
Orestis Tzirtzilakis A Cultural Genealogy of Modern Greek Hysteria, 19–20th-century Dimitris Papanikolaou Merton more »

Other Slavonic

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
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 »
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 »

Polish

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Olga Grochowska The Vanished Others: Narrating Poland’s Pre-Second World War Multi-Ethnicity in Contemporary Polish Prose Jan Fellerer Lady Margaret Hall more »
Ola Sidorkiewicz A New Language for Polish Literature: Themerson, Czapski, and Kuncewiczowa in the Shadow of Conrad Karolina Watroba, Jan Fellerer St Hugh's more »

Portuguese

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Vinicius Brunette St Cross more »
Lingchen Huang Liquid World and Solid Objects: Affect and the Nonhuman Turn in Clarice Lispector's Writing Claire Williams St Cross 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 »
Andrzej Stuart-Thompson Unruly Daughters: Complications of Epic and Identity in Portuguese Women’s Poetry from the 1960s to the Present Day Claudia Pazos Alonso Lincoln more »

Russian

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Sophia Buck Moscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan 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 »
Charlotte Dowling Bisexuality in the Post-Soviet Russian Cultural Imagination Philip Ross Bullock, Dan Healey Wadham 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 »
Oleg Larionov Production of Sensibility: Institutions, Media and Discourses of Russian Sentimentalism Andrei Zorin Jesus 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 »
Elena Racheva War Without Peace. The Discourse of Violence in Recent Russian History Catriona Kelly New more »
Jake Robertson Professional Theater in the Soviet Gulag Polly Jones, Dan Healey (History) University more »
Olga Smolyak The Social Construction of Domestic Space in the Brezhnev Era (1964-1982) Catriona Kelly Brasenose more »
Egor Sokolov Cults and Culture. Late Soviet Cultural Studies as Intellectual and Social Practice Polly Jones New more »

Spanish

Name Research Topic Supervisor College
Javaria Abbasi The Black and Red of the Ancients: Challenges to Imperial Discourse in Early Modern Mexico (1521-1700) Alice Brooke Merton more »
Anneli Aliaga Decolonisation in Action: Ecological Narratives, Racial Politics and Cultural Authorship in Contemporary Indigenous Bolivian Filmmaking Ben Bollig Magdalen 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 »
Emily Di Dodo A critical edition of the medieval Castilian translation of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' Juan-Carlos Conde Magdalen more »
Georgina Fooks Across language(s): translation, multilingualism, and visuality in the poetics of Alejandra Pizarnik and Susana Thénon - Latin American literature Ben Bollig Trinity 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 »
Katerina Levinson Immaculacy Iconography in Calderón's Autos Sacramentales Alice Brooke Wolfson more »
Andrés Libertun Perceiving Literary Influence in the Works of Juan José Saer Ben Bollig, Guadalupe Gerardi Lincoln more »
Roger Navas i Solé The Reception of 'Don Quijote' in 19th-Century France Andrew Counter, Jonathan Thacker Trinity more »
Mary Katherine Newman Colonial Spanish American literature and historiography Imogen Choi Trinity more »
Dr Marc Olivier St John's more »
Eduardo Paredes Ocampo Performance studies/ Comparative Literature/ Calderón and La vida es sueño Jonathan Thacker, Emma Josephine Smith Wolfson more »
Jose Parra Zeltzer Control and chance in the representation of peripheral spaces and identities in contemporary Chilean fiction cinema Ben Bollig Exeter 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 »
Katherine Smith Women writing the Virgin Mary in the Iberian and Spanish American worlds: From Leonor López de Córdoba to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Geraldine Hazbun, Alice Brooke Lincoln more »
Arthur Wotton Christ Church more »
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