Professor Patrick McGuinness has secured a one year Levehulme Fellowship for his research on Against Epiphanies: French
Poetry and the Ordinary.

Professor Simon Gilson is a co-investigator on this 3 year AHRC funded project led by the University of Manchester. The project is undertaking an in-depth study of the material features of prints (1472-1629) of Dante's 'Comedy'.

Led by Professor Hilary Owen, this 5 year, Leverhulme funded project will produce the first ever ‘history from below’ account of women working in the Portuguese and Spanish film and television industries in the 1970s.

This 3 year AHRC funded project is led by Professors Carolin Duttlinger, Katrin Kohl and Barry Murnane with Professor Lucia Ruprecht from the Free University of Berlin.

Professor Sam Wolfe secured a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize to undertake a 3 year project seeking to understand the the factors which can increase or slow the speed of grammatical change in the Romance languages.

The Leverhulme funded a one year international fellowship for Professor Imogen Choi to spend a year working with researchers in Spain looking at the various diasporic communities of the early modern Hispanic world.

Professor Geraldine Hazbun was awarded a one year Leverhulme Fellowship for her project exploring the representation of risk in epic literature of medieval Spain.

Professor Valerie Worth has secured a two year Emeritus Fellowship for her research on Women & Translation in Early Modern France.