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  Charlotte Baker

  I am interested in contemporary French and Francophone writing. My research interests include literary representations of marginalised and stigmatised groups in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as disability, the body and identity. I am particularly interested in the realities and representations of black African people with albinism and I have published widely in this area. My current research focuses on literature from Francophone Guinea, with a particular focus on writing against dicatorship.
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  Frederic Barbera-Farran

  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.
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  Rebecca Braun

  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.
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  Robert Crawshaw

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

  My research interests encompass contemporary German-speaking culture in a number of forms - literary, filmic, and more broadly socio-political. I'm very interested in the Nobel-prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek and continue to publish articles and chapters on her work.  My recent work and publications have focused on issues concerning literary and cultural protest, or resistance against the extreme right in present-day Austria. 
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  Delphine Grass

  My research interests lie primarily in the intersection between literature and cultural theory. I am interested in the relationship between contemporary literature and late-capitalist modes of production (particularly in Michel Houellebecq's works), as well as in the intersection between literary genres, language, and the role of the author in a post-Fordist network society. This has taken the form of two recent articles: "The Disappearing Subject: Language, Transparency and Modern Architecture in Michel Houellebecq's Works" (Contemporary French and Francophone Culture, Routledge, 2010) and "Domesticating Hierarchies, Eugenic Hygiene and Exclusion Zones: The dogs and Clones of Houellebecq's La Possibilité d'une île" (Esprit Créateur, John Hopkins University Press, 2012). Additionally, I am also very interested in the 20th century multilingual poetry of Alsace-Lorraine and the idea of multilingualism as a poetics in the works of Claude Vigée, André Weckmann, Hans/Jean Arp, Yvan Goll and Eugène Jolas. I have recently translated an extract of Vigée's Schwarzi Sengessle Flackere am Wind from Alsatian into English for Modern Poetry in Translation and am planning to pursue research in this area. I am also a practicing poet (A Verse, Magma, The Black Herald...) involved in the Sorbonne-based A Verse poetry group, and a co-translator of Michel Houellebecq's poetry collection Le Sens du combat (the Art of Struggle) into English with Prof. Timothy Mathews.
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  Cornelia Gräbner

  Cornelia researches on poetry and the public, and on poetry and activist politics. She focuses on the Poetics of Resistance and contemporary committed writing. Her research is comparative on Western Europe and the Americas. She is currently working on a monograph on committed writing and alternative globalisation. Further lines of research include poetic interventions into urban space; the intersections of culture and politics in mega-cities in the Americas; and politically committed performance poetry collectives. She holds a specialist interest in Mexican committed writing from the 1970s to the present, and in creative articulations of contemporary Mexican social movements.
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  Nick Hodgin

  My research and teaching interests lie primarily in the field of cultural studies (especially visual culture) with a particular interest in identity and community studies, and memory studies. My research has hitherto been in twentieth century and contemporary German studies and film studies. My monograph, Screening the East: Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989 (Berghahn Books, 2011),  traces the emergence and representation of a separate post-communist east German identity and the various responses to unification, looking at how these are mediated in film specifically, and, more broadly, in popular culture (museum/exhibition studies, developments in literature, advertising).
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  Amit Thakkar

  I research Spanish and Latin American film and literature. My principal current interest is 'cine de choque', a term I have developed for the analysis of films by Spanish-speaking film directors in which car crashes feature. I have written two articles and I'm now preparing a monograph on this subject. I have co-edited a special issue and published articles on the relationship between masculinities and violence in Latin American film and literature. I have published two articles, a book chapter and a book on the fiction of the Mexican author Juan Rulfo.

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