Postgraduate Research Students in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures
MPhil/PhD students in our School pursue a wonderful variety of state-of-the-art research projects in French, German, Italian, and Hispanic Studies (all broadly conceived), as well as in Translation and Transcultural Studies.
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Name |
Thesis Topic |
MPhil/PhD Programme |
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| Adam AGOWUN |
Approaches to presidential televisual image projection in the French Fifth Republic, 1995-2017: from candidacy to post-presidency |
French Studies |
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Intersections between archaeology and the 鈥榰nconscious鈥� in Italian culture from the late 18C through the mid-19C. |
Italian Studies |
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Queer vulnerability in French contemporary narratives |
French Studies |
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Modes of Representing Contemporary Music in Anglophone Fiction, Musical Thematization, Imitation, and Incorporation |
German Studies |
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| Tanya BONNIN |
Kinopoetics of feminist migrant literature: a creative experiential translation of Angie Cruz鈥檚 Dominicana |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
| Daniel CABEZA-CAMPILLO |
Brexit in translation: Narratives of conflict in British and Spanish online media (2016-2022) |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
| Alessia CARBONARO |
Translating Trauma: The Role of Australian Landscape in Contemporary Women's Fiction |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Meryem CHOUKRI |
Archives of Resistance - Knowledge, Memory and Experience of Feminist Activists of Colour in German |
German Studies |
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Abigail COPPINS |
Women and Children from the Caribbean inside the prisoner-of war prisons of Portchester and Forton Castle, 1793-1815 |
French Studies |
| Errant Oraliteracies: Comparing Creolisations of Autochthonous Music Cultures in the 鈥淢uso-Textual鈥� Prose and Poetry of Jamaica and Puerto Rico, 1970-2020 |
Hispanic Studies |
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Anxiety and Existential Crisis in the Italian Fascist-era romanzo coloniale (1918-1948) |
Italian Studies |
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Representations of 'the other' in Weimar Cinema |
German Studies |
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Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity |
Hispanic Studies |
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Examining the 'Red Translation' of English novels into Chinese and their online marketing and reception in contemporary mainland China as propaganda for Xi Jinping's economic policies. |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Millie JACOBY |
Haunting the Nation-State: (Post)memory of Eastern Europe in 20th Century French Jewish Literature |
French Studies |
| Giacomo Leopardi's visual culture |
Italian Studies |
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Yanyu LIU |
Developing Feminism Within Translation — An investigation on the female character construction in the Chinese translations of six crime fictions |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
| Francesca LUPPINO |
Itself Beyond Death. Contested authorship, Renaissance to Dataism |
Italian Studies |
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Peripheral Vision: the Aesthetics of Political Marginality in Contemporary French fiction |
French Studies |
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Situating Mme de Sta毛l's Delphine in the context of her historiographical, political and literary discourse |
French Studies |
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The Working Class Goes To Hell: Visions of Labour in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Philosophy |
Italian Studies |
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Kathryn MECHEDOU |
Anglo-French Exchanges during the Age of Revolutions: the impact and influence of women during the era of the Napoleonic wars | French Studies |
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A Reception Study of Gender Representation in Saudi Feminist Films |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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The literary and transcultural representations of Shanghai during the Republican period as reflected in the works of Chinese and French authors. |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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"Skins called Race, Skins Called Caste鈥�: A Comparative Reading of Poetry by Nancy Morej贸n and Meena Kandasamy |
Hispanic Studies |
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The Post-Industrial and Post-Colonial Condition in French literature since 2007 |
French Studies |
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| Bel茅n RODRIGUEZ SALVATIERRA |
Feminist Decolonial Geopolitics in Translation: The Representation of Chilean Contemporary Women Writers in the English-Language Literary Market. |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
| Paola SANGES GHETTI |
Prismatic Origins: Transnational and Planetary Entanglements in Wajdi Mouawad |
French Studies |
| Ellie SMITH | Beyond Pathology: Representations of Lesbian Psychology in 21st-Century French Film |
French Studies |
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Yara STAETS |
Coming to Terms with the Present: Non-Realist Representations of War in early post-1945 German Literature |
German Studies |
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Divya SURYAWANSHI |
Reimagining Prison: From Detention to Destination |
German Studies |
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Translation of contemporary Chinese women鈥檚 writing |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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A Dance Between the Visible the Invisible: Fragments of (forced) Migration in Comics from Italy and the Mediterranean |
Italian Studies |
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| Translating Musicals in the Digital Age: Exploring Fan Translators' Practices and Interaction on Chinese We-Media Platform |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Translating the Neglected Plays of the 17th-Century Hispanic World鈥檚 Leading Dramaturgas into English: A Comparative Analysis |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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| Laura WOOLLEY-NUNEZ |
Recovering Anti-Francoist Women鈥檚 Voices: A Feminist Translation of Mar铆a Teresa Le贸n鈥檚 Memoria de la melancol铆a |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
| Yaqi XI |
The translator鈥檚 voice embodied: translating the New Northeast Chinese Writers Group from text to audio |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Translating Traumatic Memory of Twentieth-Century China: Diasporic Literature of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and Translation |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Examining Translationese - A new Quality Assurance Method for Game Localisation |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Refugee Narratives: World University Service's Ethiopian and Eritrean Scholarship Programmes in the Light of Current Practice |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
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Feminist Translations of Virginia Woolf and Her Works in China |
Translation & Transcultural Studies |
For completed PhD theses in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, see this page and/or go to (糖心TV Research Archive Portal), where you can find many theses on open access.
(For older theses, browse WRAP under the former departments of , , or .)