Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Potential Research Areas and Supervisors
Potential Research Areas and Supervisors
Ozouf Amedegnato
Sociolinguistics; applied linguistics; linguistics-literature interface; Emile Benveniste
Mushegh Asatryan
Religious, cultural and social history of the medieval Islamic Middle East; interface between religion, culture and society; Islamic history; Shi’ism; Arabic and Persian languages
Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
Latin-American cinemas, popular cultures and literatures; gender, ethnicity, and class issues in cinemas and literatures from Latin America, including Argentina, Colombia, Mexico; application of the lens of theories on social space, genre, performance, neocolonialism, and transnational studies to contemporary cinemas, audiovisual materials, and literary productions of the Hispanic world.
Marie-Andrée Bergeron
20th-century Québec literature; discourse analysis; feminist studies; literary theories
Elena Bratishenko
Slavic historical linguistics; diachronic nominal morphosyntax; cognitive approaches to linguistics; Russian language and culture; the dialect of Medieval Novgorod; Medieval Slavic literature; Proto-Indo-European
Eleonora Buonocore
Medieval and Renaissance studies; philosophy; Italian literature and film; Italian language.
Francesca Cadel
Italian and Film Studies, Modernism and Comparative Literature, with a focus on the Postwar Period, and authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Umberto Saba, Ezra Pound, History of Ideas, Philosophy, and Translation. Italian classics such as Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi and Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio are also included.
Wei Cai
Second Language Listening, Vocabulary Acquisition, Language Teaching Materials Development and Evaluation, Second Language Acquisition, Chinese Applied Linguistics
Mark Conliffe
Russian culture, Russian language, 19th and early 20th-century Russian literature
Cheryl Dueck
GDR and post-unification German literature and culture; German and Central European cinema
Cyrielle Faivre
Prison and penal colony in nineteenth-century literature; interactions between visual art and literature in the Nineteenth Century; contemporary French pop culture; chanson engagée; neurodiversity in French literature
Angela George
Sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; second language pedagogy; Hispanic linguistics; language variation; language contact
Elizabeth Montes
Latin American prose fiction; Latin American women writers; literature and film in Latin America
Rachel Schmidt
Cervantes; early-modern Spanish literature; visual arts and literature; literary theory
Luis Torres
Contemporary Spanish-American literature; exile literature; creative writing; prose, poetry and theatre
Devika Vijayan
Travel literature, 17th century French literature, Jesuit writings on Canada and India
Martin Wagner
18th- and 19th-century European literature; German intellectual history; German literature
Benjamin Whaley
Modern Japanese Literature, Manga and Anime Studies, Videogame Studies, Music