Research students
| Student name | Student programme | Supervisor(s) | Thesis titles |
| Norah Al-Abdallah | Comparative Literature | Dr John Walker | Magical Realism: A Cultural Critique of Islamic and Western Representations in Contemporary |
| Hessa Alshahrani | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | The changing perceptions of nonverbal greetings by Saudi sojourners in English-speaking countries |
| Maria Placencia | |||
| 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 | Professor Carmen Fracchia | Rodrigo de Borgia's Patronage |
| Dr Robert Maniura | |||
| Samuel Bamonte | Applied Linguistics Research | Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | Stancetaking, persona style and discourses of professionalism in the local negotiation of professional identity among further education lecturers |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Antonia Bedford-Brotchie | German | Dr Alexander Weber | The reception of Niklas von Zinzendorf in 18th century England. |
| Paula Best | German | Dr Alexander Weber | The exchange of concepts of education between Germany and Britain 1800 to 1850. |
| Adriana Blaj-Jack | French | Dr Damian Catani | Guy de Maupassant. |
| Francis Breheny | Applied Linguistics Research | Marjorie Lorch | The Life, work and educational ideas of Robert Hebert Quick (1831 – 1891) with a particular focus upon his contribution to modern language learning pedagogy and his 1872 meta-perspective of the field of language learning methodology |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| 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 | Professor Akane Kawakami | A False Paradise: Exploring the Theme of Disillusionment with the European Dream in 21 Century Literature |
| Dr Nathalie Wourm | |||
| Claire Davies | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr Mari-Paz Balibrea Enriquez | A Study of the concept of home ownership within Spain from 1950s to the present day as represented within specific cultural artefacts. |
| Elena Dey | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Strategies that Russian-English Bilinguals Use to Express Two Non-Equivalent Antithetical Expressions Using the Other Language |
| Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | |||
| Frederico Duarte | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Professor Luciana Martins | 'Our poor, beautiful and culturally rich country': the contemporary challenge of Brazilian design. |
| Rosa Dyer | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Professor Luciana Martins | Biocultural knowledge, power and poetics in South American featherwork. |
| Dr Laura van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum) | |||
| Michelle Enuson | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Professor Carmen Fracchia | 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 | Professor Carmen Fracchia | 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 | Dr John Kraniauskas | Activism and Subversion of Genre in Mexican Performance Art. |
Catarina Gancho Fontoura | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Professor Luciana Martins | Picturing Mato Grosso, 1967-69: Expeditionary Science and Salvage Fieldwork. |
| Virginia Grover | Applied Linguistics Research | Penelope Gardner-Chloros | Multilingual Practices: Style, Stance and Generational Identities in Western India |
| Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | |||
| Malwina Gudowska | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Multilingual Mothering |
| Marjorie Lorch | |||
| Pauline Harris | French | Dr Damian Catani | Raw Writing: Truth and Treachery in the Novels of Sorj Chalandon. |
| Mayu Handford | Applied Linguistics Research | Rachelle Vessey | Gendered Identities in Popular Music: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of Song lyrics in the UK and Japan |
| Marjorie Lorch | |||
| James Hemsley | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr Luis Trindade | The Transition From Dictatorship To Democracy: Changes And Continuities; Causes & Consequences. |
| Meltem Ilkan | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | An investigation of pronunciation-specific cognition of pre-service LX English Teachers |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Marytka Jablkowska | French | Dr Ann Lewis | The perception of Voltaire and Rousseau in 18c Poland. |
| Pritha Kejriwal | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr John Kraniauskas | An object-oriented inquiry into Pablo Neruda’s Odas Elementales. |
| Baraa Khuder | Applied Linguistics Research | Bojana Petric | Science in exile: EAL academic literacies development of established Syrian academics |
| Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | |||
| Hannah King | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Cosmopolitan London: Transnational identities and multilingual conversational practices within an international Spanish language group |
| Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | |||
| Woralan Kongpolphrom | Applied Linguistics Research | Zhu Hua | |
| Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | |||
| 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 | Dr Alexander Weber | German Baroque writers and visual art. |
| Pui Yin Leung | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Inner speech and study abroad: a longitudinal study on Chinese students in |
| Jia Lou | |||
| Pernelle Lorette | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Do you see and/or hear and/or understand how I feel? Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perception of a Chinese speaker’s emotional state in different modalities |
| Li Wei | |||
| Maria Maestre Fernandez | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Dr John Kraniauskas | An Interdisciplinary Mapping of Roberto Bolaño's Territory: Maps, Photography, Films, and Bolaño's Mexican Novels. |
| Sharona Moskowitz | Applied Linguistics Research | Jean-Marc Dewaele | The influence of student perception of teacher emotional intelligence and happiness on foreign language learning |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Mariana Millecco | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Professor Luciana Martins | 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) | |||
| Andrew Nash | German | Dr Alexander Weber | Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931) and German Baroque Literature. |
| Mohammed Neddar | Applied Linguistics Research | Maria Placencia | Greetings and leave-takings in Algerian Arabic with a focus on gender variation |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| Michael Aidan Pope | Iberian and Latin American Studies | Professor Carmen Fracchia | 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. |
| Nilma Ramsahye | Applied Linguistics Research | Zhu Hua | Doing cultural fit in Job Interviews: The Challenge of Diversity in Recruitment Practices |
| Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | |||
| Peter Ray | Applied Linguistics Research | Bojana Petric | |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| 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 | Professor Carmen Fracchia | Notions and representations of Spanish royal Habsburg women in the Descalzas Reales (Madrid). |
| Louise Seddon | German | Professor Joanne Leal | Literary engagements with the evolution of German Identity as portrayed in German literature from the post World War II until the present day. |
| Dr John Walker | |||
| Catherine Shaw | Comparative Literature | Dr Nicolette David | Sublime Wealth: What We Fear & Revere in the Anthropocene. |
| Janice Shersby | German | Professor Joanne Leal | Public and private worlds: ‘Islands’ in post-GDR literature. |
| Lucy Tallentire | German | Professor Joanne Leal | 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 | Dr Mari Paz Balibrea | 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 | Dr Nicolette David | 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 | |||
| Emma Walters | Applied Linguistics Research | Penelope Gardner-Chloros | Semantic innocation and grammaticalization of loanword type in colloquial Hindi |
| Jia Lou | |||
| 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. |
| Kexin You | Applied Linguistics Research | Hua Hua | |
| Fengzhi Zhao | Applied Linguistics Research | Jia Lou | Language, Space and Cosmopolital Identity in Contemporary Shanghai |
| Hua Hua | |||
| Heba Arafah | Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Multilinguals' Language Choices and Perceptions in the UK: Evidence of Linguistic Discrimination since the Brexit Referendum Vote |
| Mohammed Ateek | |||
| Julia Benson | Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics | Marjorie Lorch | Social communication in Autistic Adolescents |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| Maha El-Farhan | Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics | Jia Lou | Language Emplacement, Meaning-Making & The Sense of Public Space. An Examination of Activism Signage in Bloomsbury’s Linguistic Landscape |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| Alasdair McLellan | Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics | Marjorie Lorch | Defining and classifying emblems: An analysis of La Mimica degli Antichi Investigata nel Gestire Napoletano by Andrea de Jorio (1832) |
| Zuzana Rozsypalova | Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics | Jia Lou | The discursive construction of the City of London: A study of multimodal represesntations of urban history |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| Elizabeth Shepherd | Integrated PhD in Applied Linguistics | Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | Exploring the role of meso agency in the language policy context of Vietnam |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Enrico Buonaura | Integrated PhD Intercultural Communication | Zhu Hua | Cultural Identity stances in Small Talk interactions: what Italian PhD students in London's academia do in the workplace |
| Lisa McEntee-Atalianis | |||
| Ghadah Alhodaif | Integrated PhD TESOL | Bojana Petric | The impact of teaching practice (TP) on student teachers' beliefs about teaching EFL reading: the case of pre-service (PRESET) trainees in KSA |
| Marjorie Lorch | |||
| Sally Cook | Integrated PhD TESOL | Jean-Marc Dewaele | Exploring the role of multilingualism in the therapeutic journey of survivors of torture and human trafficking |
| Giovanna Iannaco | |||
| Alvaro Acosta Corte | New Route PhD in Applied Linguistics | Thomas Morton | Systemic Functional Linguistics and proactive Focus on Form as tools to analyse and foster the acquisition of causal language in CLIL / Bilingual Education |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| Oleksandra Shaitan | New Route PhD in Applied Linguistics | Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | Mixed-race identity in the context of Japan. Labels and categorization |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Emina Tuzovic | New Route PhD in Applied Linguistics | Marjorie Lorch | Visual Word Recognition in Arabic Learners of English |
| Jean-Marc Dewaele | |||
| Fatema Alhalwachi | New Route PhD in Communication | Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis | Narratives of Infertile Muslim Women: The Construction of Personal and Socio-Cultural Identities in Weblogs |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Chieri Noda | New Route PhD Intercultural Communication | Zhu Hua | |
| Bojana Petric | |||
| Negar Ahmad Khosravi Choghakhor | New Route PhD TESOL | Zhu Hua | Pragmatic Judgement of Compliments (Ta'arof) in Persian-English Bilinguals |
| Jia Lou |