This page shows all current research projects. Click here to view a list of archived projects.
A list of independent research projects from our funded post-doctoral research fellows is available here.
Professor Patrick McGuinness has secured a one year Leverhulme Fellowship for his research on Against Epiphanies: French
Poetry and the Ordinary.
Dr Andrew Kahn is the Co-Investigator on the Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great https://catcor.seh.ox.ac.uk/
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'.
This project reassesses Kafka’s literature and legacy through a reading of twentieth- and twenty-first-centuryauthors and theorists from across the world who find in him formal blueprints for shaping experience that resistsstraightforward thought and expr
Dr Rosa Vidal Doval has been awarded a one-year Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to study the development of purity of blood.
This 5-year, AHRC-funded project will produce the first ever ‘history from below’ of women working in the Portuguese and Spanish film and television industries in the 1970s and early 80s. The Portuguese team is led by Professor Hilary Owen.
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.
Our project will reassess the history of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa by re-signifying the vast collections of objects, archival documents and photographs amassed by geographer and explorer Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti (1855-1926) and tracing th
Prof. Henrike Lähnemann has received a three-year ProNiedersachsen grant in conjunction with the Klosterkammer Niedersachsen and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to continue editing the letter books of Northern German nuns together with the historian Prof.
The World Brain explores the idea that the world coheres as a cognisant system.
Professor Valerie Worth has secured a two year Emeritus Fellowship for her research on Women & Translation in Early Modern France.