Javaria Abbasi
Research topicThe Black and Red of the Ancients: Challenges to Imperial Discourse in Early Modern Mexico (1521-1700)
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Beverly Marie Adrian
Research topicResurrection, Reincarnation and the Perfectibility of the Soul in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, from Maistre to Hugo
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Anneli Aliaga
Research topicDecolonisation in Action: Ecological Narratives, Racial Politics and Cultural Authorship in Contemporary Indigenous Bolivian Filmmaking
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Elizabeth Apps
Research topicDevotional Cognition and the Dynamics of Belief in Early Modern France
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Theo Barnett
Research topicThe Human Document in Russophone Literature of the Post-revolutionary Emigration, 1919-1940
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Emma Baxter
Research topicLiterary and Mathematical Modernisms in Russophone Literature 1900-1930
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Joseph Begley
Research topicMemory and trauma: Representations of the French Revolution in the 19th-century novel
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Trisevgeni Bilia
Research topicJames Joyce’s Ulysses in Greece: a case of modernist reception and translation in the periphery (The reception of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Greece)
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Magdalena Blincoe-Deval
Research topicA is for Army: Memory and Militarisation in Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Children's Literature
Irina Boeru
Research topicEdging towards the Afortunadas: tracing memory and identity in the ocean narratives of Le Canarien
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Pietro Bordi
Research topicThe Artist as a Reader of Dante: Depicting the Body in Alberto Martini's Illustrations for the Inferno (1901-1943)
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Rebecca Boyd
Research topicConjuring the Self: Renée Vivien and the Hermetics of Identity
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Vinicius Brunette
Research topicAires, the “conchavo” artist: a critical reading of Esaú e Jacó and Memorial de Aires
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Alexandra Burgar
Research topic'Our Slavic call': Femininity as a Tool for the Projection of Post-Socialist Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest
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Silvia Cercarelli
Research topic20th century Italian literature, women's literature, antifascism
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Ramani Chandramohan
Research topicConceptualising conversion: reading Herbert’s 'Li Romans de Dolopathos' in its manuscript context
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Shivani Chauhan
Research topicA critical analysis of mnemonic frameworks and literary devices in selected family narratives by women writers from Central and Eastern Europe
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Gwendoline Choi
Research topicThe German Colonial Imaginary 1918-1939: An Intermedial Study
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Manuela Crivelli
Research topicCartographies of Catastrophe: Narrative Responses to Environmental Struggle in Contemporary Southern Cone Fiction
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Andrea di Serego Alighieri
Research topic“in the babbler that lives I demand to be inscribed” / “Chiss. elling dark. ness writing in lights” Amelia Rosselli and Kamau Brathwaite’s poetics of inscription across verse, page and diaspora
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Lucas-Jan Dörre
Research topicMy project will investigate the importance of walking for German poetry since modernity, embedded in the long tradition of detours in German thought.
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Rowan Dowling
Research topicUncovering The Untold History and Culture of Bisexuality in Russia (1991-2023)
Mareike Sophie Drünkler
Research topicUncovering Women's Voices: Alternative Forms of Participation in the German Enlightenment
Agnes Fanning
Research topicTwo Latin American Anarchists: Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Patrícia Galvão (Pagu)
Sarah Isabelle Fengler
Research topicEuropean Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment
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Louise Ferris
Research topicProust through the lens of Derrida, Nancy and Malabou: the breaking down of the distinction between the self and world in new forms of materiality
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Lillian Fontaine
Research topicGhosts of Colonies Past: Spectrality and Haunting in 21st Century Algerian Francophone Literature
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Georgina Fooks
Research topicA Translational Poetics: Between Language(s) and Image in the Works of Alejandra Pizarnik and Susana Thénon
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Sophie Forst
Research topicEnlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century
Anna Glieden
Research topicRepresentation and Perception of Sculptures in French Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Laura González Salmerón
Research topicIntersections between Science and Literature: Anglophone influences in contemporary Spanish fiction
Rebekah Goodchild
Research topicArlequin Janséniste: Drama and Religious Controversy in Early Modern France
Olga Grochowska
Research topicThe Vanished Others: Narrating Poland’s Pre-Second World War Multi-Ethnicity in Contemporary Polish Prose
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Martyna Grzesiak
Research topicItalian book history: A copy census of the first printed Italian Bible translation by Nicolò Malerbi (1471).
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Cristina Dondi
Aditi Gupta
Research topicJean-Baptiste Gentil (1726-1799), A Traveller, Patron, Collector, and Historian: A Page in Indo-French Cultural Relations
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Alice Hawkins
Research topicFeminine Subjectivity and Virtue in Medieval Romance: the cases of Guinevere and Iseut
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Katherine Helmick
Research topicMemory, Silence, and Narrative in Translingual Literatures from Zulu South Africa and Hispanophone Equatorial Guinea
Alexandra Hertlein
Research topicArchetype, Genealogy and Founding Myth – The Search for Origins in Scientific, Philosophical and Philological Texts of the 18th and 19th Century
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Esme Hodson
Research topicGender, Objects and Things in the Works of Cecilia Mangini, Anna Maria Ortese, and Natalia Ginzburg
Michelle Chun-Han Hsu
Research topicGender and Empire in Turn-of-the-Century French Literature on China
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Lingchen Huang
Research topicLiquid World and Solid Objects: Affect and Nonhuman Phenomena in Clarice Lispector
Adam Husain
Research topicUnity and Transformation in À la recherche: Proust through the lens of Catherine Malabou
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Roberto Interdonato
Research topicAlienation and the Utopian Function of Literature in Anna Maria Ortese and Ingeborg Bachmann
Dr Liam Johnston-McCondach
Research topicLe Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics
Melaniia Kalinina
Research topicThe Intellectual Contexts of Andrei Bely’s Theory of Poetic Rhythm
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Joseph Kelly
Research topic‘Bringing Imperial Rome to life in the Wireless World: Radio, Nationalism and Spiritual Imperialism in Fascist Italy’
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Simon Kerr
Research topicThe ‘enveloppe close’: Reading minds in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
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Akari Kobayashi
Research topicTextual/Sexual Bodies in Translation: Metamorphosing Sex in Ovide Moralisé and Ovidius Moralizatus
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Sofiia Kosourova
Research topicHybrid War and Hybrid Memories: the Russo-Ukrainian Сonflict in Film"
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Elliot Koubis
Research topicAgainst Homochrononormativity: New Queer Times in French and Greek Literature
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Research topic"Tu vois tout en rose!" : The Semantics of Passion & The Passion for Semantics in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit
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Oleg Larionov
Research topicProduction of Sensibility: Institutions, Media and Discourses of Russian Sentimentalism
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Deborah Lemke
Research topicNaming Identity: Proper Names in the Writing of Romain Gary and Patrick Modiano
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Patrick Leuenberger
Research topicCritical Study of the Representation of the Stranger and Dark Skin in German Medieval Literature
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Katerina Levinson
Research topicIconographic Strength: Female Agency through Immaculist Devotion in Calderón’s Marian Autos Sacramentales
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Mingshi Lin
Research topicThe Laboratory-Gallery of Knowledge:
Reimagining Science in Art from Chile and Argentina during the Cold War
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Martin Lindner
Research topic(De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Habsburg’s inner & extra-European discourses of identity and difference.
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Marie Martine
Research topic'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Benjamin Micallef
Research topicSemio-Ecology: An Archeology of Ontological Difference in European Thought (1948-1968)
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Rosalind Moran
Research topicExpanding Ecocriticism by Using Concepts from Physics in Interpreting Modernist Literatures
Thomas Morris Tena
Research topicBorges and Marías: Style and Cosmopolitanism in Two Author-Translators
Sally Mullis
Research topicAnimal cognition and the arts in early modern French thought, c. 1570-1700
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Victoria Musvik
Research topicPerestroika as a Memory Hole: Selective Amnesia and the Affective Revival of the Perestroika Years and the Early Nineties in Russia
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Daria Nepochatova
Research topicUkrainian Women's Almanacs as Nineteenth-Century Feminist Literature
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Mary Katherine Newman
Research topicColonial Spanish American literature and historiography
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Lynn Nguyen
Research topicBetween fact and fiction: History, storytelling, and ethics in contemporary French literature of the Second World War
Aoife Ní Chroidheáin
Research topicStasi and Samizdat: From Infiltration to Infiltration Art
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Anastasiia Oleshchuk
Research topicShaping Ideas about the Nation and Its Readers: Russian Literary Anthologies, 1850–1900
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Mary Orsak
Research topicPregnancy, Parturition, and Motherhood in Contemporary Czech, Slovak, and Russian Women's Writing
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Vera Otdelnova
Research topic'Creative Support'. Easel Painting and Socialist State in the late 1950s-1980s
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Jose Parra Zeltzer
Research topicControl and chance in the representation of peripheral spaces and identities in contemporary Chilean fiction cinema
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Maria Pereira Branco
Research topicThe differences that bind them together in the search for freedom: a comparative study of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Natália Correia
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Maria Petrovskikh
Research topicGenealogy of Autofictional Texts of the 1860s (Alexander Herzen, Aleksei Pisemskii)
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Monty Powell
Research topicMultivocality in the Visionary Works and Letters of Hildegard of Bingen
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Timothy Powell
Research topicThe Reception of Hans Sachs in the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990
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Sasho Pshenko
Research topicThe late thought of Gilles Deleuze, as presented in Cinema, structuralism, film, literature
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Elisian Eleni Maria Ralli
Research topicLire son propre roman: The 'livre de luxe' as a medium of self-fashioning in bibliophile societies of the Parisian fin-de-siècle
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Xavier Rock
Research topicGender Portrayal and Gender Identity: A Russian-Language Cultural Media Analysis
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Mariana Rodriguez Barreno
Research topicFeminine hemispheres: networks and international cultural production in the first half of the twentieth century
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Holly Rowe
Research topicEvidence, example, and expérience in the eighteenth-century French essay
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Olivia Russell
Research topicReleasing reminiscences: the process of imagination in the autobiographical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Giacomo Casanova
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Lorena Sanchez Gallego
Research topicSynergies between Peninsular and English Gothic representations of phobias and psychosomatic conditions
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Marlene Schilling
Research topicPersonification as Devotional Strategy in Middle Low German Literature
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Rebecca Schleuß
Research topicHealing Sisters. Health Provision in Medieval Convent Rules and Literature
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Sarah Schwarz
Research topicThe Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann
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Ola Sidorkiewicz
Research topicA New Language for Polish Literature: Themerson, Czapski, and Kuncewiczowa in the Shadow of Conrad
Kate Sligo
Research topicA French Idea of the Global: the Song of Diversity at Éditions Stock
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Katherine Smith
Research topicMaestressa e doctoressa: The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Spanish American Women's Writing
Egor Sokolov
Research topicCults and Culture. Late Soviet Cultural Studies as Intellectual and Social Practice
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Elena Sorochina
Research topicThe sylph and sylphide in French cultural production (1681 - 1801)
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Alejandro Soto-Chaves
Research topicTransnational Exchange, Polycentric Modernisms, and the Question of Central America’s Avant-Garde
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Nicholas Stedman
Research topicCharles Nodier & the rise of problematic notions of authorial originality in French letters from the 18th to the 19th century
Asimina Tassopoulou
Research topicEarly modern Sephardic Writing: the ideology and aesthetics of the poetic anthology Elogios
Orestis Tzirtzilakis
Research topicA Cultural Genealogy of Modern Greek Hysteria, 19–20th-century
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Jacqueline Uren
Research topic‘Le théâtre et la reine’: Marie-Antoinette, Letters, and Courtly Spectacle, 1770-1789
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Lujza Vallo
Research topicMy Jewishness is my "life issue", the circumstances, the laws, the world made it so.' Jewish Assimilationist Writing in Mitteleuropa from 1980-1940.
Dana Vuckovic
Research topicThe Consecration and Canonization of Balzac as a Classic Writer: Between the Educational Institution, Adaptation and the Serialized Novel
Georgie Walker
Research topic'Eating Affect': The Affective Resonances of Culinary Encounters in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
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Zoe West-Taylor
Research topicThe Modern Time(s) of María Luisa Bombal: Theatre, Cinema, Multilingualism
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Arthur Wotton
Research topicThe Diagnostic Novel: History, Fiction and Nationhood in the Biographical Fiction of Francisco Herrera Luque
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Alessandro Zammataro
Research topicAntonio Grifo’s Illumination as a Visual Commentary to Petrarch’s Canzoniere
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Carlo Maria Zanetti
Research topicBuilding Community through Individual Agency: The Linguistic Roots of Intersubjective Sociality in High Medieval Culture
Jingyan Zhang
Research topicPublic Green Spaces in Parisian Literature and Art (1852-1914): Leisure, Politics, and Gender
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