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Professors and Associate Professors
Researchers, Fixed-Term and College Staff
Language Lecturers
Doctoral Students
Beverly Marie Adrian
Research topicResurrection, Reincarnation and the Perfectibility of the Soul in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, from Maistre to Hugo
Supervisor
Joseph Begley
Research topicMemory and trauma: Representations of the French Revolution in the 19th-century novel
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
Ramani Chandramohan
Research topicConceptualising conversion: reading Herbert’s 'Li Romans de Dolopathos' in its manuscript context
Supervisor
Cameron Etherton
Research topicThe Poetics of Testimony in Jacques Derrida’s Later Writings
Supervisor
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
Research topicGhosts of Colonies Past: Spectrality and Haunting in 21st Century Algerian Francophone Literature
Supervisor
Anna Glieden
Research topicRepresentation and Perception of Sculptures in French Eighteenth-Century Literature
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
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
Adam Husain
Research topicUnity and Transformation in À la recherche: Proust through the lens of Catherine Malabou
Supervisor
Liam Johnston-McCondach
Research topicLe Plaisir de Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, and Literary Politics
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
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
Robert Ley
Research topicRepresentations of consumption from medieval chansons to geste to François Rabelais
Eleanor Lischka
Research topicProust and poetry: lyric subjectivity and poetic voice in the work of Marcel Proust
Supervisor
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)
Supervisor
Dr Waqas Mirza
Research topicLanguage and Self in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy: the Self-Translation of the Representation of the Mind
Supervisor
Sally Mullis
Research topicAnimal cognition and the arts in early modern French thought, c. 1570-1700
Supervisor
Lynn Nguyen
Research topicBetween fact and fiction: History, storytelling, and ethics in contemporary French literature of the Second World War
Jack Nunn
Research topicCrafting Anthologies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance France: Collecting, Selecting, Arranging
Supervisor
Sasho Pshenko
Research topicThe late thought of Gilles Deleuze, as presented in Cinema, structuralism, film, literature
Supervisor
Elisian Eleni Maria Ralli
Research topicFrom Bibliophilia to Biophilia: Selfhood and Alterity in the Illustrations of the Fin-de-siècle Livre de Luxe (1880-1914)
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
Hannah Scheithauer
Research topicCross-border Communities: The Limits of ‘Multidirectional Memory’ in Contemporary Literatures in French and German
Kate Sligo
Research topicA French Idea of the Global: the space of diversity at Éditions Stock
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
Jacqueline Uren
Research topic‘Le théâtre et la reine’: Marie-Antoinette, Letters, and Courtly Spectacle, 1770-1789
Supervisor
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 topicPortraits in Blue: Water and Distress in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French
Supervisor
Jingyan Zhang
Research topicPublic Green Spaces in Parisian Literature and Art (1852-1914): Leisure, Politics, and Gender
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