Javaria Abbasi
Research topicThe Black and Red of the Ancients: Challenges to Imperial Discourse in Early Modern Mexico (1521-1700)
Supervisor
Beverly Adrian
Research topicReincarnation and the Perfectibility of the Soul in Nineteenth-Century French Prose
Supervisor
Anneli Aliaga
Research topicDecolonisation in Action: Ecological Narratives, Racial Politics and Cultural Authorship in Contemporary Indigenous Bolivian Filmmaking
Supervisor
Nora Baker
Research topicWriting Exile : the Huguenot refugees in 18th-century England' (Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship)
Supervisor
Joseph Begley
Research topicMemory and trauma: Representations of the French Revolution in the 19th-century novel
Supervisor
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)
Supervisor
Irina Boeru
Research topicEdging towards the Afortunadas: tracing memory and identity in the ocean narratives of Le Canarien
Supervisor
Rebecca Boyd
Research topicConjuring the Self: Renée Vivien and the Hermetics of Identity
Supervisor
Vinicius Brunette
Research topicAires, the “conchavo” artist: a critical reading of Esaú e Jacó and Memorial de Aires
Supervisor
Sophia Buck
Research topicMoscow – Berlin – Paris: Walter Benjamin's Transnational Spaces of Comparison
Alexandra Burgar
Research topic'Our Slavic call': Femininity as a Tool for the Projection of Post-Socialist Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest
Supervisor
Beatrice Carlini
Research topicElsa Morante and Goliarda Sapienza in dialogue: Religion, Sadomasochism and Queer Identities
Ramani Chandramohan
Research topicConceptualising conversion: reading Herbert’s 'Li Romans de Dolopathos' in its manuscript context
Supervisor
Shivani Chauhan
Research topicA critical analysis of mnemonic frameworks and literary devices in selected family narratives by women writers from Central and Eastern Europe
Supervisor
Gwendoline Choi
Research topicThe German Colonial Imaginary 1918-1939: An Intermedial Study
Supervisor
Frances Clemente
Research topicThe Ecstatic Dis-Order: A Cultural and Literary Investigation of Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915)
Luca Costa
Research topicGiacomo Leopardi and the Roots of Existentialism. An account of Leopardi and the existentialist developments of his philosophical thought
Andrea di Serego Alighieri
Research topic"Nel parolaio che vive domando d’esser iscritta": Amelia Rosselli’s poetics of inscription and the language of future ancestors"
Supervisor
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.
Supervisor
Rowan Dowling
Research topicUncovering The Untold History and Culture of Bisexuality in Russia (1991-2023)
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Sebastian Dows-Miller
Research topicThe Encoded Codex : A Digital, Statistical, and Codicological Examination of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français, 24432
Supervisor
Mareike Sophie Drünkler
Research topicWeeklies, Women and the Will to Reform – Alternative Forms of Female Participation in the German Enlightenment
Supervisor
Tess Eastgate
Research topicRevolutionary Letters: Three Case Studies of Women’s Correspondence with Politicians, July 1791–May 1794
Supervisor
Georgina Edwards
Research topicBuilding on Bildung in the 20th century – individual and institutional learning in Wittgenstein and Hesse
Supervisor
Agnes Fanning
Research topicTwo Latin American Anarchists: Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Patrícia Galvão (Pagu)
Mathieu Farizier
Research topicHow to do politics with words? The resurgence of revolutionary poetry in contemporary France
Supervisor
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
Supervisor
Lillian Fontaine (Specker)
Research topicGhosts of Colonies Past: Spectrality and Haunting in 21st Century Algerian Francophone Literature
Supervisor
Georgina Fooks
Research topicAcross language(s): translation, multilingualism, and visuality in the poetics of Alejandra Pizarnik and Susana Thénon - Latin American literature
Supervisor
Sophie Forst
Research topicEnlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century
Supervisor
Claudia E. García Muñoz
Research topicSaint or Sinner?: The Multiple Faces of Lucretia in the Golden Age of Spain
Supervisor
Anna Glieden
Research topicRepresentation and Perception of Sculptures in French Eighteenth-Century Literature
Supervisor
Carolin Gluchowski
Research topicRevising Private Prayerbooks. The Latin/Low-German Prayerbooks from the Cistercian Convent of Medingen in the Context of Late-Medieval Church Reforms
Supervisor
Laura González Salmerón
Research topicIntersections between Science and Literature: Anglophone influences in contemporary Spanish fiction
Emma Goodwin
Research topicConceptualising national identity in twelfth-century chansons de geste composed in French
Supervisor
Olga Grochowska
Research topicThe Vanished Others: Narrating Poland’s Pre-Second World War Multi-Ethnicity in Contemporary Polish Prose
Supervisor
Andrei Gross
Research topicEthics and poetics of the Dissident Self: the life and writings of Alexander Esenin-Vol'pin
Supervisor
Martyna Grzesiak
Research topicItalian book history: A copy census of the first printed Italian Bible translation by Nicolò Malerbi (1471).
Supervisor
Aditi Gupta
Research topicJean-Baptiste Gentil (1726-1799), A Traveller, Patron, Collector, and Historian: A Page in Indo-French Cultural Relations
Supervisor
Alice Hawkins
Research topicFeminine Subjectivity and Virtue in Medieval Romance: the cases of Guinevere and Iseut
Supervisor
Katherine Helmick
Research topicThe Impact of Inherited Trauma on Translingual Expression in South African and Equatorial Guinean Poetry
Supervisor
Alexandra Hertlein
Research topicArchetype, Genealogy and Founding Myth – The Search for Origins in Scientific, Philosophical and Philological Texts of the 18th and 19th Century
Supervisor
Nicola Holt
Research topicWhat can literature do that philosophy can’t? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch
Michelle Chunhan Hsu
Research topicGender and Empire in Turn-of-the-Century French Literature on China
Supervisor
Lingchen Huang
Research topicLiquid World and Solid Objects: Affect and the Nonhuman Turn in Clarice Lispector's Writing
Minying Huang
Research topicTradition as Process in Twentieth-Century Latin American Arab Poetry
Supervisor
Adam Husain
Research topicUnity and Transformation in À la recherche: Proust through the lens of Catherine Malabou
Supervisor
Roberto Interdonato
Research topicLight and darkness in the work of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) and Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)
Nathalie Jeter
Research topicMemory, materiality, and metis in Huguenot refugee escape tales
Supervisor
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Research topicLe Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics
Joseph Kelly
Research topic‘Bringing Imperial Rome to life in the Wireless World: Radio, Nationalism and Spiritual Imperialism in Fascist Italy’
Supervisor
Simon Kerr
Research topicThe ‘enveloppe close’: Reading minds in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
Supervisor
Akari Kobayashi
Research topicTextual/Sexual Bodies in Translation: Metamorphosing Sex in Ovide Moralisé and Ovidius Moralizatus
Supervisor
Sofiia Kosourova
Research topicHybrid War and Hybrid Memories: the Russo-Ukrainian Сonflict in Film"
Supervisor
Elliot Koubis
Research topicAgainst Homochrononormativity: New Queer Times in French and Greek Literature
Maya Kucinskas
Research topicAesthetic of Liminality and Hallucination : the modeling of an imaginary world and the "montage of emotions" – a poetic enquiry in film and literature, from Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit to Hayao Miyazaki.
Supervisor
Zita Teresa Lanzara
Research topicCorrespondences in Italian and American 19th- and 20th century literature, focusing on the dilemma ‘To Be or to Be Someone Else’.
Supervisor
Oleg Larionov
Research topicProduction of Sensibility: Institutions, Media and Discourses of Russian Sentimentalism
Supervisor
Patrick Leuenberger
Research topicCritical Study of the Representation of the Stranger and Dark Skin in German Medieval Literature
Andrey Levitskiy
Research topicReformation Interrupted: Renovationist Movement in the Russian Orthodox Church (1917-1929)
Supervisor
Robert Ley
Research topicRepresentations of consumption from medieval chansons to geste to François Rabelais
Andrés Libertun
Research topicPerceiving Literary Influence in the Works of Juan José Saer
Supervisor
Martin Lindner
Research topic(De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Habsburg’s inner & extra-European discourses of identity and difference.
Supervisor
Eleanor Lischka
Research topicProust and poetry: lyric subjectivity and poetic voice in the work of Marcel Proust
Supervisor
Julia Lorenz
Research topicMeasuring Intensity – A New Methodological Approach towards Medieval Relationships
Supervisor
Micah MacKay
Research topic'Make We Ioye Nowe in this Fest': 'Reading' Performance and Orality in Late Medieval Carols
Supervisor
Marie Martine
Research topic'The Silent Tragic of the Everyday': Women Writers in Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Waqas Mirza
Research topicA comparative reading of Beckett’s French and English trilogy: how self-translation affects the figuration of inner life
Supervisor
Luise Morawetz
Research topicThe Glosses of the Murbach Hymns. A Study on Syntax and Language Use in Old High German
Supervisor
Victoria Musvik
Research topicPerestroika as a Memory Hole: Selective Amnesia and the Affective Revival of the Perestroika Years and the Early Nineties in Russia
Supervisor
Mary Katherine Newman
Research topicColonial Spanish American literature and historiography
Supervisor
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
Supervisor
Erin Nickalls
Research topicLocalized Liminality: Translation and multimodality in the work of Julien Green and Paul Bowles
Supervisor
Jack Nunn
Research topicFlowers of Rhetoric: Crafting Literary Anthologies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance France
Supervisor
Anastasiia Oleshchuk
Research topicShaping Ideas about Women and the Nation: Russian Literary Anthologies, 1850–1900
Supervisor
Vera Otdelnova
Research topic'Creative Support'. Easel Painting and Socialist State in the late 1950s-1980s
Supervisor
Isabel Parkinson
Research topicTranslating the 'erzaehlte Innenwelt': Analysing English translations of German-language women-authored consciousness narratives.
Supervisor
Jose Parra Zeltzer
Research topicControl and chance in the representation of peripheral spaces and identities in contemporary Chilean fiction cinema
Supervisor
Catriona Parry
Research topicAdaptation, Dialogism and Disaffection during “O Colapso”: Angolan Cinema from 1982-1999
Supervisor
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
Supervisor
Marina Popea
Research topicLiterary Translation in Mexican Cultural Magazines: From Modernismo to the Avant-Garde (1894-1931)
Supervisor
Sasho Pshenko
Research topicThe late thought of Gilles Deleuze, as presented in Cinema, structuralism, film, literature
Supervisor
Alberto Ravani
Research topicJohn Tzetzes' Allegories of the Iliad: introduction and partial edition
Supervisor
Xavier Rock
Research topicGender Portrayal and Gender Identity: A Russian-Language Cultural Media Analysis
Supervisor
Mariana Rodriguez Barreno
Research topicFeminine hemispheres: networks and international cultural production in the first half of the twentieth century
Supervisor
Holly Rowe
Research topicEvidence, example, and expérience in the eighteenth-century French essay
Supervisor
Olivia Russell
Research topicReleasing reminiscences: the process of imagination in the autobiographical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Giacomo Casanova
Supervisor
Lorena Sanchez Gallego
Research topicSynergies between Peninsular and English Gothic representations of phobias and psychosomatic conditions
Supervisor
Hannah Scheithauer
Research topicCross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German
Marlene Schilling
Research topicPersonification as Devotional Strategy in Middle Low German Literature
Supervisor
Sarah Schwarz
Research topicThe Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann
Supervisor
Ola Sidorkiewicz
Research topicA New Language for Polish Literature: Themerson, Czapski, and Kuncewiczowa in the Shadow of Conrad
Kate Sligo
Research topicSous la Bleue: la diversité through the lens of France's oldest publishing house
Supervisor
Katherine Smith
Research topicMaestressa e doctoressa: The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Spanish American Women's Writing
Olga Smolyak
Research topicThe Social Construction of Domestic Space in the Brezhnev Era (1964-1982)
Supervisor
Egor Sokolov
Research topicCults and Culture. Late Soviet Cultural Studies as Intellectual and Social Practice
Supervisor
Elena Sorochina
Research topicThe sylph and sylphide in French cultural production (1681 - 1801)
Supervisor
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; critical edition and wide-ranging study of the poetic anthology Elogios
Orestis Tzirtzilakis
Research topicA Cultural Genealogy of Modern Greek Hysteria, 19–20th-century
Supervisor
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
Elly Walters
Research topicSinking Feelings: Water and Distress in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French
Supervisor
Victoria White
Research topicThe Ethics of Loyalty: decoding the loyalty gene in the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
Arthur Wotton
Research topicThe Diagnostic Novel: History, Fiction and Nationhood in the Biographical Fiction of Francisco Herrera Luque
Supervisor
Alessandro Zammataro
Research topicAntonio Grifo’s Illumination as a Visual Commentary to Petrarch’s Canzoniere
Supervisor
Carlo Maria Zanetti
Research topicBuilding Social Cohesion through Affective Subjectivity : The Linguistic Roots of Performative Solidarity in Duecento Urban Culture
Supervisor
Jingyan Zhang
Research topicPublic Green Spaces in Parisian Literature and Art (1852-1914): Leisure, Politics, and Gender
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