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Projects in European Languages and Cultures
The Body and Power in Francophone Guinean Literature
01/01/2013 →
Charlotte Baker
I am preparing a book which explores questions of the body and power in post-independence Guinean literature. ... Read more»Crash Cinemas in Spain, the Americas and Beyond
31/01/2011 →
Amit Thakkar
This project concerns recent films in which crashes have featured not just as plot devices but also as linguistic motifs which help to structure and inform these films. The project covers both aesthet ... Read more»Non-Lyric Discourses in Contemporary Poetry: Spaces, Subjects, Mediality
01/01/2010 → 31/12/2011
Cornelia Gräbner
The constitution of lyric poetry as a literary category encouraged the correlating indefinition of the concept of poetry, and, as a result, the conceptual convergence between poetry and lyric poetry, ... Read more»Masculinities and Violence in Latin American Cultures
30/04/2008 →
Amit Thakkar
Project leaders are myself and Dr Chris Harris at the University of Liverpool (website under construction: http://mavlac.wordpress.com/). Funding of £1500 was secured from the British Academy’s Jo ... Read more»Writing Life: The Making of the Author in Germany's Media Age
01/10/2007 →
Rebecca Braun
This project focuses on authors as cultural artefacts, and is located at the cusp of humanist literary studies, cultural studies and the social sciences. Since 2008, it has produced a series of peer-r ... Read more»Resisting Haiderisation
07/09/2007 →
Allyson Fiddler
I'm writing a book about the many forms of cultural resistance to right-wing populism in Austria. When Jörg Haider's 'liberal' party formed part of a coalition government in 2000, the EU reacted wi ... Read more»Intermediality in Elfriede Jelinek
01/10/2006 → 31/12/2011
Allyson Fiddler
Together with other international experts on Elfriede Jelinek and focused around the Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre at the University of Vienna, this project began with an week of interdisciplinary ... Read more»The century of genocide
01/09/2006 → 31/12/2007
Aristotle Kallis
This is a web project funded by the Lancaster University Alumni Fund. The purpose of the project is to showcase the work of students who took the course 'Genocide in 20th-century Europe' (Department o ... Read more»The Literature and Photography of Juan Rulfo
31/01/2005 →
Amit Thakkar
This is my own project since the completion of my PhD. The latter focused on irony in the work of the celebrated Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. Rulfo’s novel and masterpiece, Pedro Páramo, was listed i ... Read more»Cross-cultural voyages to the Pacific
01/01/2004 → 31/12/2006
Mercedes Camino
This three-year project was sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand for NZ$496,000. The interdisciplinary work that we undertook looks at the cross-cultural dimension of Pacific exploration fr ... Read more»Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication - The PIC project
01/01/2002 → 31/12/2006
Robert Crawshaw, Jonathan Culpeper
This international project, conducted with the support of the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University, The British Council, the Ministhre de l'Education Nationale and the Centre International des E ... Read more»
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