Research projects
The Department of Languages Cultures and Film leads pioneering research that transcends Modern Languages, influencing diverse disciplines globally. We champion challenge-based, linguistically-sensitive approaches, acting as translators between academic disciplines, societal realms, and theory and practice. Explore our transformative research projects below.
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Dr Tamara West's project aims to explore the role of digital exhibitions in memory practices, contested histories, national identities, and postcolonial pasts.
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Dr. Barbara Spadaro's project examines Italian culture inside and outside Italy, focusing on its mobility and transformation through various everyday practices and languages.
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Professor Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara West's (German Studies) project examines Romani groups who travelled from Germany to Britain in the decades before the First World War.
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Dr Niamh Thornton's (Iberian and Latin American Studies and Film Studies) project gathers stories and explores what the eyebrow means to identity and selfhood.
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Dr Abigail Loxham's (Film Studies) project interrogates the public understanding of gender in Spain.
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Professor Claire Taylor's (Iberian and Latin American Studies) project interrogates the memory and representation of victims of the Colombian conflict, especially in museums, ‘official’ exhibitions, and memorials.
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Dr Nicola Bermingham's (Hispanic Studies) project explores the ways in which language underpins disparities in educational outcomes in Cape Verde.
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Dr Niamh Thornton's (Iberian and Latin American Studies and Film Studies) project assesses the cultural outputs emerging from the chaos and disorder of both past and present traumas.
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Dr Ian Magedera's (French Studies) project focuses on five former trading posts and garrison settlements up the Hugli River.
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Professor Charles Forsdick (French Studies) worked with researchers in the UK and elsewhere to explore the sites, locations and zones within, across and between which translation occurs.
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Dr. Lyn Marven's (German Studies) project examines German-language anthologies. The project focuses on the development of the anthology form and its relationship to the literary history of Berlin, especially the much-analyzed ‘Berlin novel’.
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Professor Robert Blackwood's (French Sociolinguistics) project focuses on how monolingualism is challenged in museums, monuments, and memorialisation.
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Professor Stefania Tufi (Italian Studies and Sociolinguistics) alongside PDRA Dr Jessica Hampton aim to generate new understandings of borders as everyday practices that we engage with.