Our staff
Staff categories
These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of Cultures and Languages.
Head of department
Academic staff
- Dr Mari Paz Balibrea Enriquez
- Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás
- Agnès Calatayud
- Dr Damian Catani
- Dr Marcos Centeno
- Dr Peter Damrau
- Dr Nicolette David
- Professor Carmen Fracchia
- Professor Akane Kawakami
- Professor Joanne Leal
- Dr Ann Lewis
- Professor Luciana Martins
- Dr Eckard Michels
- Dr Maria Elena Placencia
- Dr Anna Richards
- Dr John Walker
- Dr Alexander Weber
- Dr Nathalie Wourm
Associate Lecturers
- Nadège Dorion (French)
- Viv Griffiths (French)
- Virginie Rodriguez (French)
- Muriel Temple (French)
- Nadine Buchmann (German)
- Michaela Knowles Barron (German)
- Martina Duettmann (German)
- Christina Parte (German)
- Martina Borghi (Italian)
- Daniela Cerimonia (Italian)
- Claudia Pusceddu (Italian)
- Syada Dastagir (Japanese)
- Kerstin Fooken (Japanese)
- Noriko Inagaki (Japanese)
- Yoko Kagawa (Japanese)
- Junko Kinukawa (Japanese)
- Noriko Yamasaki (Japanese)
- Talia Morris (Spanish)
- Oscar Salgado Suarez (Spanish)
- Fernando Sdrigotti (Spanish)
- Jeannette Uribe-Duncan (Spanish)
Emeritus staff
- Professor Robin Howells
- Robin Howells specialises in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature and culture (classicism and, principally, Enlightenment). He also uses paradigms from Bakhtin (carnivalesque, dialogism, polemical stupidity) to examine aspects of literature generally. His main research interests are Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the writing and visual arts of the late eighteenth century.
- Email Robin Howells
- Professor John Kraniauskas: Professor Emeritus in Latin American Studies
- John Kraniauskas is a specialist in Latin American literary and cultural studies, cultural theory and political philosophy with particular interests in relations between state and cultural forms. John was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.
- Email John Kraniauskas
- Professor Patrick Pollard
- Patrick Pollard is professor of French, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, Gide, the classical tradition, and gender. His research interests include the history of ideas (with an emphasis on nineteenth- to twentieth-century France), history of literature, history of homosexuality and the classical tradition in France, specifically the history of the translation of Greek and Latin authors into French, the modern reuse of ancient myths, and gender and sexuality. He has been a member of the Association des Amis d’André Gide since its inception, and is currently Honorary Treasurer of the Emile Zola Society, London.
- Email Patrick Pollard
- Mme Madeleine Renouard: Emerita Reader in French
- Madeleine Renouard's most recent co-edited book Barbara Wright Translation As Art was published in 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press. She is currently editing the poet Lorand Gaspar's hospital diaries and notes. Madeleine was for many years Editor of La Chouette journal.
- Professor Ian Short: Emeritus Professor of French
- Ian Short's research interests include medieval studies, in particular French vernacular literature, Anglo-Norman, and the epic.
- Email Ian Short
- Dr John Walker
- Professor David Wells
research fellows and visiting Professors
- Jean Braybrook
- Jill Fell
- Borja Franco
- Fernando Gòmez Herrero
- Bronwen Martin
- Kit Yee Wong
Study skills and learning support adviser
Administrative staff
- Nathifa Hall-Ezea, Assistant School Manager
- Damilola Eniola, Administrator
- Eden Davis, Team leader
- Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Team leader (maternity leave)
- Holly Burdikin, Administrator
- Anthony Shepherd, Team leader (postgraduate research)