Arabic linguistics, Qur’anic linguistics and exegesis, Qur’anic studies, Qura’nic text analysis and textuality, Arabic stylistics, Arabic rhetoric, and translation studies. View full profile

Renaissance period, with particular interests in satirical writing, and comic theory. View full profile

Research ranges from the study of political and religious conflicts in Modern Europe to the making of the liberal and the Catholic traditions during the nineteenth Century. View full profile

•Post-war Japanese Diplomacy and International Relations •International Political Economy •Japan's Relations with Africa •Sino-Africa Relations View full profile

Antonio teaches and coordinates several modules in Spanish and he is currently working on two research projects on Student Education funded by SCORE (HFCE) and JISC. View full profile

Sociolinguistic variation in the contemporary spoken French of France. View full profile

French film and fiction of the Vichy years, postwar war/occupation narratives, French women’s writing, roman/film noir, French culture of the 1950/60s, 20th century French thought and culture. View full profile

African slavery and slave trade in the Atlantic World. Forms of slave resistance in the Americas (particularly the Spanish Caribbean and Brazil). Contemporary Latin American History. View full profile

Lecturer in Japanese Studies M.A. Leuven '99 PhD Harvard 2011 View full profile

Development of language teaching programmes, video materials and automated tools for teaching. View full profile

Cinema, fiction popular and classical, professional translation, interpreting, and French for Academic/Specific Purposes View full profile

All aspects of medieval literature, manuscript studies, iconography, gender/sexuality in the Middle Ages. View full profile

•The history of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, before AD 1900. •The history of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. View full profile

Phonetics, phonology View full profile

History of Sexuality in Spain, 1850 to the present; the anarchist movement in Spain; the history of homosexuality, eugenics, nudism, technology and sexuality and hermaphroditism. View full profile

Contemporary German Cinema in its political, aesthetic and industrial context; The relationship between German and US cinema; The representation of 'Victimhood' in German culture; 'Ostalgie' View full profile

Political, utopian and fantastic thought, esp. in Romanticism, German Student Movement, Science Fiction, and in the works of Kurd Lasswitz, Hermann Hesse and Uwe Timm. View full profile

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Italian Voices Project View full profile

I am interested in Boccaccio, reception studies, and the history of the Italian book. View full profile

Language acquisition, pragmatics, psycholinguistics View full profile

Pragmatics, discourse analysis View full profile

Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Literature, Theatre and Film, particularly: Queer and Minority Identities; Transculturalism; Contemporary German Cinema; German Women's Writing; Elfriede Jelinek. View full profile

Syntax, language acquisition, formal pragmatics, information structure View full profile

Brazilian cinema post-1960, especially popular/exploitation films, race and sexuality. World Cinema, especially new definitions, popular cinema, Third Cinema theory and national cinemas. View full profile

East Asian regionalism and regionalisation; Free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific; Renewable energy and low carbon development in East Asia; Korea, Singapore and Taiwan View full profile

Arabic linguistics; Arabic language pedagogy; Arabic/English translation; Arabic dialectology (especially Sudanese Arabic); Functionalist linguistics. View full profile

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow View full profile

•Regional co-operation and integration in the Asia Pacific •Non-Traditional Security in the Asia Pacific •Democratisation in Southeast Asia ASEAN •Sub-regional co-operation in the Mekong Valley View full profile

French culture and the First World War; French and British women's experiences in WW1, especially as nurses; female ‘veterans’ in the interwar period; history of feminism; C20th French women's writing View full profile

Literature and the Holocaust, especially the works of W. G. Sebald and H. G. Adler; Holocaust translation; issues of gender and queer identities in contemporary German literature; View full profile

German literature in its social and historical context; the role of the writer-intellectual; Contemporary Austrian drama & the stage; Literature & National Socialism; Post 1989 Narrative Fiction View full profile

Lecturer in German. Cinematic representations of terrorism; Cultural memories of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF); Post-1945 Austrian literature and film; Film adaptations View full profile

Liaison interpreting, consecutive interpreting, translation and use of language. View full profile

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in Portuguese, specifically with respect to the historical and intellectual contexts in both Portuguese and wider European literary traditions. View full profile

Language Teaching Fellow in Spanish. View full profile

The history of Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (especially Porfiriato and Revolution 1876-1920). View full profile

Early modern French literature. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama. Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau. Reception studies. Literary translation. View full profile

Syntax, syntax-semantics interface View full profile

Stuart lectures on Spanish theatre, cinema and music. His current research project explores how the performing arts contend with immigration, multiculturalism and the ethnic identity of Spain. View full profile

Social and cultural history of early modern China; Chinese garden design and social uses of gardens in early modern China; Individuality and identity in early modern China View full profile

The literature of Christian Kracht; Pop literature since the 1980s; Konkrete Poesie and ‘cut-up’ montages since the 1960s; The novels of Arnold Stadler View full profile

French and Italian popular culture in the post-war period; popular music; 1968 and the student/worker protest movement in France and Italy. View full profile

•Modern Japanese literature, film and cultural studies •Relations between historical and cultural form (e.g. visuality, cinema and modernity; modernism and advanced capitalism) •Cultural theory View full profile

The effective use of new technologies in the language classroom; web 2.0 technologies in language teaching; blended learning; the role of women in contemporary Spanish cinema. View full profile

Phonetics, phonology View full profile

Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French literature; dilettantism and cosmopolitanism; fin-de-siècle literature and thought; comparative literature. View full profile

Romantic literature in twentieth century France, Film. View full profile

Filmic representations of the Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhof group) over the course of the last 30 years. View full profile

Dante and his use of political ideas and imagery, medieval political poetry, modern Italian writers. View full profile

Algerian War of Independence; histories of antiracism in France from the 1930s; Algerian migrations to France since 1919; colonial racism in France; colonial governance in Algeria and Morocco. View full profile

Russian literature, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kundera View full profile

Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching, Austrian and German Cinema, Cultural exchange and and intercultural communications. View full profile

Translation Studies View full profile

Translation and interpreting, Modern Standard Arabic and Dialects View full profile

•Political ecology/ political economy of development and environmental change in East and Southeast Asia. •Political economy/ political ecology of aid View full profile

Comparative Politics in the Middle East & North Africa View full profile

Computer-assisted language learning, methodology of teaching foreign language reading skills. Pedagogical implementation of new media. View full profile

My research interests include the relationship between standard Italian and local or regional varieties spoken in Italy. View full profile

Teacher of Japanese language View full profile

Discourse analysis, classroom interaction and pedagogy; Arabic grammar and text interpretation; English and Arabic stylistics; Critical Discourse Analysis and media texts; Arab Media & Society; View full profile

20th and 21st-century French and Francophone literature; Lebanon; Post-Holocaust cultures; representations of memory; music and literature View full profile

Main research and teaching interests include Latin American human rights violations, political violence and transitional truth and justice, as well as the politics of memory in Argentina and Uruguay. View full profile

•Tradition and Innovation – Performer and Performance of Beijing Opera •Comparative theatre: traditional and modern theatres in China & Western theatre •Intercultural performance art View full profile

•Gender, sexuality and development •Work and organizational changes •Unemployment and welfare reforms •Ageing and social policy •Intergenerational relations and rural-urban migration View full profile

Teaching Fellow View full profile

Twentieth-century aesthetics of the extreme; baroque aesthetics; sublime; abject; obscenity and pornography; representations of death; stylistics; rhetoric; Georges Bataille; Jean Genet; Samuel Becket View full profile

Language Teaching Fellow in Portuguese and Director of the Instituto Camões Centre for Portuguese Language. View full profile

Lecturer in Portuguese Studies View full profile

I am teaching Japanese language across all levels. I am also a Japanese Year Abroad Tutor. View full profile

Translation studies, translation theory, discourse analysis, appraisal theory, ideology in the translation of political speeches, cognitive translation studies, history of translation View full profile

Academic interests include new teaching/learning approaches, material creation and development, pragmatics and non-verbal communication. View full profile

World Cinema, cinematic realism, intermediality, new waves and new cinemas, Brazilian cinema, Japanese cinema, German Cinema. View full profile

Syntax, language disorders, language evolution View full profile

•Foreign Language Teaching Methodology •E-Learning View full profile

•Contemporary Mongolian affairs •History and culture of the Mongols from the Middle Ages to the present •Mongolian language View full profile

Alan is a specialist in Italian cultural studies and popular cinema. His previous research was on terrorism in Italian cinema. View full profile

•Foreign language education and teaching methodology •Japanese pedagogy •Second language acquisition View full profile

•Development processes in South-East Asia •Rural-urban circulation •Rural industrialisation •Sustainable and community-based tourism in South East Asia •Tourism and heritage in South East Asia View full profile

Bees, honey and beekeeping in China before the nineteenth century; Social networks in late imperial China, especially in Jiangxi; Responses to destruction and loss in Jiangxi View full profile

Sociolinguistics, language and power View full profile

Anna Pegoretti holds a prestigious Newton International Fellowship in the Department of Italian and the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies View full profile

Dr Pitman works on Latin American cultural production; especially Mexican and Chicana/o materials. Her current work focuses on Latin American cyberculture and the expression of Latin American-ness. View full profile

Catalan lectora View full profile

20th and 21st century French literature, especially crime fiction; popular culture and film; aesthetics. View full profile

Phonetics, phonology, interactional linguistics View full profile

DAAD Lektorin View full profile

Media and democratisation in Greater China, identity issues in Taiwan, as Mell as films and media representation of history, culture and politics in East Asia. View full profile

The late Middle Ages and Renaissance, the development of the Italian language, the history of the circulation of texts. View full profile

Latin American literature, particularly Peruvian literature. Urban Landscape in contemporary Peruvian literature. View full profile

•Contemporary Sino-Japanese relations •Nationalism in China and Japan • Sino-Japanese reconciliation • History and citizenship education in China and Japan •Japan's foreign policy View full profile

Post-doctoral Fellow on the "Italian Voices" project View full profile

Paul Rowe's research focuses on nineteenth-century intellectual culture, and in particular on Benjamin Constant; Franco-German cultural transfers; the press; and the Saint-Simonians. View full profile

Modern theories of representation (Marin, Didi-Huberman); writing on the visual arts since the 19th century, including art theory, art criticism and literature; Yourcenar. View full profile

Francophone and post-colonial studies: politics and aesthetics of African cultural production, post-colonial theory, North African cultural and language policies, the cultures of independence. View full profile

Arabic and Francophone Literature and Cinema with focus on the Maghreb; Arab writers in the Diaspora with special emphasis on Eastern- Western encounters; colonial versus post-colonial relations View full profile

Eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian authors; theory of the novel; self-reflexivity in Italian literature. View full profile

Research Fellow on the Italian Voices Project View full profile

Main areas of interest are teaching Thai as a foreign language and intercultural communication. View full profile

•The history of Buddhism in Thailand •Contemporary movements in Thai Buddhism and their relations to society, politics and the economy •Disputes on Buddhist doctrines in Thailand View full profile

History of the German Women's movement, gender relations in German history. The response of the women's movement to the First World War and the role of women activists in cultural demobilisation. View full profile

Islamic Legal Theory, Theology and Muslim Reformist Thought View full profile

Immigration, race, nation and citizenship; the city; Jewish cultural studies; cultural theory and debates; colonial and post-colonial theory and cultures. View full profile

Middle East politics and International relations, with particular interest in Palestine, Lebanon, the Gulf and inter-Arab politics View full profile

Social and political conflict in early twentieth-century Spain, nationalisms and nation identities, and especially the origins and rise of Catalan nationalism between the 1830s and 1930s. View full profile

Clinical linguistics, language acquisition, gesture View full profile

Critical theory, especially the work of Roland Barthes; African and Caribbean literature, politics and historiography; the forme brève View full profile

Contemporary Russian film, animation, digital media, popular culture; 20th Century Russian literature. View full profile

Multilingual literature, regional and dialect literatures, twentieth-century fiction (especially the contemporary novel). View full profile

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Church-State Relations and Theology in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine. BA (Durham) PhD (Durham) View full profile

Relationships between politics and writing, the role of the German intellectual in the period after 1945, and literature after 1989. View full profile

•Japanese Linguistics •Foreign Language Teaching Methodology •E-Learning View full profile

Martin teaches courses and supervises students in genre analysis, translation theory, and computer-assisted translation. These reflect his research profile in multilingual, multimodal communication. View full profile

Dante and medieval literature; Tasso and Renaissance literature. View full profile

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Social protest and conflict in contemporary France, social movement theory (Alain Touraine, Pierre Bourdieu), May 1968, new social movements, altermondialisme, 2008 economic crisis. View full profile

•Chinese fiction and authorial identity, past and present •Authorial prefaces and paratexts •Political dissent and Chinese democracy movements •Seventeenth century classical Chinese tales View full profile

Golden Age drama and prose fiction; Hispanic and European cinema(s); translation; contemporary Spanish culture and politics; twentieth-century Spanish theatre; gender and sexuality. View full profile

Second language acquisition, language teaching View full profile

Border cultures and theory; Contemporary German-speaking theatre and drama with particular focus on representations of migration and transnational experience. View full profile

Professor of Japanese, recent research has focused on the concept of difference/alterity in modern Japanese literature. View full profile

Teaching Fellow in Russian View full profile

•Computer Assisted Translation •Translation and Interpreting Studies •Computer Assisted Language Learning View full profile

•Stylistics and linguistic criticism on literature •Applied linguistics: teaching Chinese as second language •Chinese literature and language of the Cultural Revolution •Language style View full profile

•Socio-economic and human development in China and Southeast Asia (Vietnam) •Global-local linkages and the impact of globalisation on local development View full profile