The following are available for one-to-one supervision of guided research topics and for dissertations in French / Francophone studies, German studies, Hispanic studies and Italian studies.
in French/Francophone studies:
Dr Sue Harris, Queen Mary, University of London French. Cinema; 20c theatre; Popular culture
Ms Marie-Christine Press, Westminster: The postcolonial imaginary: hybridity, métissage, translation, travel, diasporas, alienation; A visual poetics of contemporary literary texts in French
Dr Gill Rye, IGRS: Contemporary women’s writing in French; mother-daughter relations; mothering; mourning; Kristeva; Cixous; Reading theory
Professor Naomi Segal, IGRS: 19c or 20c French literature (especially fiction); 19c or 20c comparative literature (French, German, English); the récit; sexuality, desire; fictions of adultery; feminist and gender theory; gay/queer theory and texts; 20c cultural studies; psychoanalysis (especially Freud and Anzieu); the body; the sense of touch; the skin
Dr Lyn Thomas, London Met. French women’s writing, especially Annie Ernaux; Contemporary French TV & cinema (especially ‘lifestyle’ & reality TV); French New Wave cinema; Readership & audience study
Dr Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Goldsmith’s. Early modern French literature; fairytales.
Dr Laura Peters, Roehampton. Orphan narratives; Dickens; race; Victorian literature and culture; empire; post-colonial writing; contemporary Canadian writing.
In German studies:
Prof Robert Weninger, KCL. 20th century German literature; literary theory and aesthetics; comparative literature (German/British/French); comparative theory
Dr Frank Krause, Goldsmith's College, University of London. Expressionism; Enlightenment; E. S. Özdamar
Dr Joanne Leal, Birkbeck. Post-1945 literature and film: particularly the post-war novel, Berlin fiction, gender issues in relation to literature and film
Dr Martin Liebscher, IGRS. Psychoanalysis (Jung); the sirens in myth and literature
Professor Naomi Segal, IGRS. 19c or 20c comparative literature (French, German, English); sexuality, desire; fictions of adultery; feminist and gender theory; gay/queer theory and texts; 20c cultural studies; psychoanalysis (Freud et al); the body; the sense of touch; the skin V
Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, IGRS. The culture and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; specifically: the representation of the city in literature and the visual arts; the relationship between literary text, contemporary aesthetic theory and the visual arts; the works of German-Jewish writers, produced in Germany and in exile
Dr Andreas Kramer, Goldsmith’s. 20th-century German literature and culture; the European Avant-garde; literature and film; critical theory; comparative approaches to literature, how modern literature is transformed by the visual; how literatures travel across national and linguistic boundaries; and how modern writing coexists with critical theory.
Dr Christina von Hodenberg, QMUL. Social/cultural history of 19c and 20c Germany
In Hispanic, Latin-American and Lusophone cultural studies:
Eduarda Mota, Kings/IGRS. 20th-century Portuguese literature and in the Portuguese literary canon as it has been perceived and used by government decision-makers in conceiving the official programmes of Portuguese at pre-higher education level.
Dr Mari Paz Balibrea, Birkbeck. Spanish cultural studies: history and critique, with a special focus on questions of Modernity and postmodernity; exile and diaspora (particular expertise: Republican exile of 1939); detective fiction (particularly Manuel Vázquez Montalbán); space and urban cultures (particularly Barcelona)
Dr Ana Raquel Fernandes, Birmingham. 20th century Portuguese culture and literature: special emphasis on short stories; Comparative literature (Portuguese/British/French) focusing on the development of the novel
Dr Carrie Hamilton, Roehampton. Feminism, gender and sexuality, memory, political violence and revolution in relation to contemporary Spain and Latin America
Dr Maria José Blanco, IGRS/UCL. Contemporary Spanish writers (especially women); contemporary Spanish cinema
In Italian studies:
Dr Katia Pizzi, IGRS. Literature and history of the northeastern borders of Italy; the avant-garde; children's literature and popular culture
Dr Guido Bonsaver, Oxford. 20th century Italian literature; The relationship between literature and politics; 18th century Italian culture; Italian cinema
Prof Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University. The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion
Prof Laura Lepschy, UCL. 19c literature, Venetian ambassadors
Dr Nicola Mai, London Metropolitan. Immigration, particularly Albanian; Italian cinema
Dr Florian Mussgnug, UCL. 20th Century Italian Literature, Comp Lit, Italian philosophy, experimental literature, literary theory, avant-gardes, gruppo 63, postmodernism
Dr Simone Testa, RHUL. History of the book; Renaissance Venetian travellers
Dr Dorothy Zinn, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy. Anthropology
