Research in community and identities
A major concern of the department is with the way in which the arts and humanities represent, deconstruct and at times reconfigure various psychic, social and political identities and identifications.
We study these topics at the individual and the collective level. Key strands of shared research interest include:
- the formation of memory communities in European culture
- gender and memory
- stigma, 'race' and the fantastic
- altermondialisme and the avant-garde
- representations of gender and sexuality in early modern, 17th and 18th century literature
- decolonization and post-colonialisms in a comparative context
- war from the Renaissance to the twentieth-century nation state
- trauma, desire and the (in)human; cinema and post-political masculinities
- new modes of representing family and community in visual culture.
