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

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

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 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

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

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

Translation Studies View full profile

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

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

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

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

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