Summary of Staff Research Interests

Baker, Charlotte
Twentieth century French literature; the Francophone world; fictional writing from Francophone and Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa; postcolonial theory; the body and identity; representations of marginalised and stigmatised groups in Africa; representations of disability; difference, madness and monstrosity.

Barbera, Frederic
My general research interests are 20th-Century Spanish and Catalan narrative and cultural history, with special attention to the area of cultures in contact. I am also interested in comparative literature, in the field of 20th-Century European narratives.

Braun, Rebecca
My main areas of interest are: authorship, fame / celebrity, 20th and 21st century German literature and culture, the transmission and reception of cultural products in the contemporary world (the question of cultural impact), translated literature and its reception.

Crawshaw, Robert
Intercultural Narratives: writing, history, identity, migration and social change; The Pragmatics of Cross-cultural communication; Regions and Regionalism in Europe

Fiddler, Allyson
Austrian Culture (literature, film, and politics) is one my primary research areas. My research work ranges widely over contemporary German-language culture, however, and I have published on contemporary novelists, dramatists and, more laterally, on film-makers. I am very interested in the Nobel-prize-winning author, Elfriede Jelinek, and have published numerous articles about her work.

Graebner, Cornelia
Literature and globalization, cultural production and neoliberalist politics, politically committed literature, cultural production in the context of social movements, urban culture, performance poetry/polipoesía, contemporary Mexican poetry and culture, contemporary Galician poetry, critical theory, Latin American cultural studies.

Kerr, Greg
I have previously published in the area of nineteenth century French poetry and the history of ideas. While continuing to pursue research in this area, I am also beginning a project which exploreness the idea of statelessness in twentieth-century French-language poetry.

Photo not available

Thakkar, Amit
I research Spanish and Spanish American film and literature. I have published a book, two articles and a book chapter on the fiction of the Mexican author Juan Rulfo. "The Fiction of Juan Rulfo: Irony, Revolution and Postcolonialism" was published by Tamesis (Boydell and Brewer in April 2012). My current interest is 'cine de choque', a term I have used for films by Spanish-speaking film directors in which car crashes feature. I have published two articles on this theme, one on Alejandro Amenábar's 'Abre los ojos'and the other on Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Amores perros'. A major research project for me is Masculinities and Violence in Latin American Cultures. I have edited a special issue of the "Bulletin of Hispanic Studies" and written two articles on this theme.