PhD Supervision - Areas of Interest

Baker, Charlotte

I welcome doctoral proposals which engage with aspects of the following : Twentieth century French literature; Francophone African fictional writing; postcolonial theory; the body and identity; representations of marginalised and stigmatised groups in Africa; representations of disability, madness and monstrosity. Proposals may take a comparative or interdisciplinary approach, or may focus on the literature of particular countries.

I am currently co-supervising a PhD thesis 'Contemporary Congolese Literature as Witness' with Professor Tim Matthews (University College London).

Barbera, Frederic

20th-Century Catalan and Spanish Narrative

Cultural Identity

European Comparative Literature

Cultures in Contact

Bartram, Graham

The modern (1918-present) German and Austrian novel and theories of the novel

Society and culture of the Weimar Republic

European modernism and the avant-garde

German theories of modernity and modernism; Frankfurt school; WalterBenjamin

Braun, Rebecca

I welcome proposals in all areas of 20th and 21st century German literature and culture, and am also interested in supervising comparative projects that deal with issues of authorship and celebrity, the relationship between the media and the culture industry, and questions surrounding the transmission and reception of culture in the contemporary world.

Crawshaw, Robert

I would be interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas

Intercultural Narratives: literature, writing, history, identity, migration and social change

for additional information on my research profile, please refer to the following Research Projects and Centres with which I am directly involved - currently or in the recent past: as initiator, director and/or member of the research team.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/

http://www.transculturalwriting.com/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/pic/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/regionalism/index.htm

Fiddler, Allyson

Contemporary German Cultural and Literary Studies, including film studies, single-author/playwright/film-maker studies, women's studies, and especially interested in Austrian Studies

Graebner, Cornelia

• performance poetry
• the relationship between literature, social movements and the public sphere
• comparative literary studies
• contemporary Latin American literature

Proposals may take a comparative approach or may focus on the literature of particular countries.

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Hodgin, Nick

I welcome PhD proposals on any topic which falls into the broad research areas outlined below.

Kerr, Greg

Nineteenth-century French poetry

Utopian thought

Literature and urban modernity

Relations between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Thakkar, Amit

Spanish and Latin American Literature and Film (masculinities, violence, non-violence, irony, postcolonial theory, revolution)