Our research students
Student name | Student programme | Supervisor(s) | Project |
Norah Al-Abdallah | Comparative Literature | Dr John Walker | Magical Realism: A Cultural Critique of Islamic and Western Representations in Contemporary Literature. |
Catherine Angerson | German | Dr Alexander Weber | Literary networks and the reception of German literature in Britain, 1750-1810. |
Javier Arenas | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Rodrigo de Borgia's Patronage of the Arts: A Transmediterranean Project. | |
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Antonia Bedford-Brotchie | German | The reception of Niklas von Zinzendorf in 18th century England. | |
Paula Best | German | The exchange of concepts of education between Germany and Britain 1800 to 1850. | |
Adriana Blaj-Jack | French | Guy de Maupassant. | |
Serena Ceniccola | Comparative Literature | Dr Marcos Centeno Martin | “We’re by-products of the mid-twentieth century”: memory, tradition, and hybridity in Japanese North American literature. |
Professor Martin Eve | |||
Leonard Daly | Comparative Literature | A False Paradise: Exploring the Theme of Disillusionment with the European Dream in 21 Century Literature | |
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Claire Davies | Iberian and Latin American Studies | A Study of the concept of home ownership within Spain from 1950s to the present day as represented within specific cultural artefacts. | |
Frederico Duarte | Iberian and Latin American Studies | 'Our poor, beautiful and culturally rich country': the contemporary challenge of Brazilian design. | |
Rosa Dyer | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Biocultural knowledge, power and poetics in South American featherwork. | |
Dr Laura van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum) |
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Michelle Enuson | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Black Embodiment, Cultural Violence and the Salvation of African Slaves in Early Modern Spain. | |
Erica Faleiro-Rodrigues | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr Luis Trindade | Spanish Research. |
Claudia Figueiredo | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr Luis Trindade | The Struggle on Stage: theatre, proletarian cultures and social emancipation in Lisbon, 1890-1926. |
Hilary Furey | Iberian and Latin American Studies | The Formation of National Identity: Gregorio Vázquez de Arce y Ceballos (1638-1711) and the Capilla del Sagrario in Nueva Granada. | |
Dolores Galindo | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Activism and Subversion of Genre in Mexican Performance Art. | |
Catarina Gancho Fontoura | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Picturing Mato Grosso, 1967-69: Expeditionary Science and Salvage Fieldwork. | |
Pauline Harris | French | Raw Writing: Truth and Treachery in the Novels of Sorj Chalandon. | |
James Hemsley | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr Luis Trindade | The Transition From Dictatorship To Democracy: Changes And Continuities; Causes & Consequences. |
Marytka Jablkowska | French | The perception of Voltaire and Rousseau in 18c Poland. | |
Pritha Kejriwal | Iberian and Latin American Studies | An object-oriented inquiry into Pablo Neruda’s Odas Elementales. | |
Joao Laia | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr Luis Trindade | Historicising moving image practices in Portugal. |
Lesley Lavington | French | Dr Stephen Goddard, Oxford (external supervisor) | The treatment of certain themes from the Classical world in the work of the Parnassian poets. |
Elisabeth Legl | German | German Baroque writers and visual art. | |
Maria Maestre Fernandez | Iberian and Latin American Studies | An Interdisciplinary Mapping of Roberto Bolaño's Territory: Maps, Photography, Films, and Bolaño's Mexican Novels. | |
Mariana Millecco | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Women at The Maias romance, a visual and cultural journey from the nineteenth century literature to the modern audio-visual. | |
| Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani (UCL) |
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Andrew Nash | German | Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931) and German Baroque Literature. | |
Michael Aidan Pope | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Proselytizing Empires: The Many Conversions of the Iberian Atlantic, 1479-1668 | |
Kerry Purcell | Comparative Literature | Dr Damian Catani | Alain Badiou and the site of militant history. |
Carlos Reyes Manzo | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr John Kraniauskas | Residence in the Circle of Fire: the cognitive mapping of the idea at the intersection of poetry and photography. |
Sara Santos | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Notions and representations of Spanish royal Habsburg women in the Descalzas Reales (Madrid). | |
Louise Seddon | German | Literary engagements with the evolution of German Identity as portrayed in German literature from the post World War II until the present day. | |
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Catherine Shaw | Comparative Literature | Sublime Wealth: What We Fear & Revere in the Anthropocene. | |
Janice Shersby | German | Public and private worlds: ‘Islands’ in post-GDR literature. | |
Lucy Tallentire | German | Of Woman Mothered: Motherhood, Memory and Identity in 21st Century German Women’s Literature. | |
Michael Thompson | French Research | Dr Damian Catani | Whatever happened to the Catholic novel? An analysis of the work of three contemporary French women writers influenced by faith. |
Professor Akane Kawakami | |||
Codruta Tudorache | Iberian and Latin American Studies | The impact of the Spanish Civil War on contemporary art as an expression of the attitude of the new generations towards past conflicts through postmemory process. | |
Michela Valmori | Comparative Literature | Representation of domestic relations, gender violence and women’s roles evolution in the Italian American literary production | |
Dalila Villella | French Research | Professor Akane Kawakami | Rhizomatic writings as a way to politically engage in 21st poetry. |
Dr Nathalie Wourm | |||
Trevor Wornham | Iberian and Latin American Studies Research | Professor Carmen Fracchia | Male beauty in the paintings of Diego Rodríquez de Silva y Velázquez and Jusepe de Ribera in imperial Spain. |