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Staff research interests

Following is a quick summary of our staff research interests. Please see our staff pages for detailed information on our staff research.

Eighteenth-century studies
  • Peter Damrau, MA, PhD: Devotional literature and women's writing.
  • Ann Lewis, BA, MSt, PhD: Eighteenth-century French literature and culture; text-and-image relations (especially illustration).
  • Anna Richards, MPhil, DPhil: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, especially the novel and its medical historical context; women's writing.
  • John Walker, MA, PhD: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy, especially the German realist novel, and the history of ideas.
Film studies
  • Silke Arnold-de Simine, MA, DPhil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature (especially WG Sebald); cultural theory; gender studies and memory media; photography; early German film; museum studies.
  • Andrew Asibong, BA, MA, PhD: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and francophone literature, film, critical theory and cultural studies.
  • Agnes Calatayud, LèsL, MèsL, MA: Cinema and post-colonial studies.
  • Joanne Leal, BA, PhD: Post-war German literature and film, especially literature/film and gender, the modern German novel and the films of Wim Wenders.
French literature
  • Andrew Asibong, BA, MA, PhD: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and francophone literature, film, critical theory and cultural studies.
  • Andrew Asibong, BA, MA, PhD: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and francophone literature, film, critical theory and cultural studies.
  • Damian Catani, MA, DPhil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature; evil in modern French thought and literature; Mallarmé; Baudelaire; visual arts.
  • Akane Kawakami, MA, MPhil, DPhil: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature; travel narratives; theories of photography.
  • Ann Lewis, BA, MSt, PhD: Eighteenth-century literature and culture; text-and-image relations (especially illustration).
  • Nathalie Wourm, LèsL, MèsL, DPhil: New French writing; literature in mixed media; post-structuralist and anti-capitalist thought in contemporary literature.
Gender studies, the representation of sexuality
  • Silke Arnold-de Simine, MA, DPhil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature (especially WG Sebald); cultural theory; gender studies and memory media; photography; early German film; museum studies.
  • Andrew Asibong, BA, MA, PhD: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and francophone literature, film, critical theory and cultural studies.
  • Peter Damrau, MA, PhD: Devotional literature and women's writing.
  • Nicolette David
  • Joanne Leal, BA, PhD: Post-war German literature and film, especially literature/film and gender, the modern German novel and the films of Wim Wenders.
  • Ann Lewis, BA, MSt, PhD: Eighteenth-century literature and culture; the representation of prostitution in eighteenth-century France; text-and-image relations (especially illustration).
  • Anna Richards, MPhil, DPhil: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, especially the novel and its medical historical context; women's writing.
German literature
  • Silke Arnold-de Simine, MA, DPhil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature (especially WG Sebald); cultural theory; gender studies and memory media; photography; early German film; museum studies.
  • Peter Damrau, MA, PhD: Devotional literature and women's writing.
  • Nicolette David
  • Joanne Leal, BA, PhD: Post-war German literature and film, especially literature/film and gender, the modern German novel and the films of Wim Wenders.
  • Anna Richards, MPhil, DPhil: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, especially the novel and its medical historical context; women's writing.
  • John Walker, MA, PhD: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy, especially the German realist novel, and the history of ideas.
  • Alexander Weber, Staatsexamen, PhD: German literature from the seventeenth century to the present; Anglo-German cultural relations; history of ideas; literature and theology.
History and politics
History of ideas
  • Damian Catani, MA, DPhil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature; evil in modern French thought and literature; Mallarmé; Baudelaire; visual arts.
  • Jean Braybrook, MA, DPhil: Renaissance poetry and drama; Rémy Belleau; the epic; Montaigne; classicism.
  • John Walker, MA, PhD: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy, especially the German realist novel, and the history of ideas.
  • Alexander Weber, Staatsexamen, PhD: German literature from the seventeenth century to the present; Anglo-German cultural relations; history of ideas; literature and theology.

 

Post-colonial studies
Renaissance studies
Text and image studies (including intermediality, photography, illustration)
  • Silke Arnold-de Simine, MA, DPhil: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature (especially WG Sebald); cultural theory; gender studies and memory media; photography; early German film; museum studies.
  • Akane Kawakami, MA, MPhil, DPhil: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature; travel narratives; theories of photography.
  • Joanne Leal, BA, PhD: Post-war German literature and film, especially literature/film and gender, the modern German novel and the films of Wim Wenders.
  • Ann Lewis, BA, MSt, PhD: Eighteenth-century literature and culture; text-and-image relations (especially illustration).
  • Nathalie Wourm, LèsL, MèsL, DPhil: New French writing; literature in mixed media; post-structuralist and anti-capitalist thought in contemporary literature.
We are based in central London

We are based in central London

 
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