Research
Research grants
Representing the BUMIDOM: French Caribbean Migration in Literature and Culture
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
October 2020 - July 2023
The Culture of Spanish Verse in the Late Middle Ages
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
January 2011 - November 2013
The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2017 - March 2022
Translating Cultures leadership fellowship (Phase II)
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2015 - March 2021
‘Dark tourism’ in comparative perspective: sites of suffering, sites of memory
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2016 - February 2018
1001 Re-tellings: Emily Ruete’s Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin in a literary context
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
October 2011 - September 2012
Toussaint Louverture as transnational figure: representations of the Haitian revolutionary in world literature and history.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
February 2005 - July 2005
New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literature in France.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2001 - September 2003
International colloquium for 20th/21st century French studies: 'French in/and other disciplines'.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
April 2002 - May 2002
The travelling revolutionary: twentieth-century translations of Toussaint Louverture.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
June 2004
Toussaint Louverture as transnational figure: representations of the Haitian revolutionary in world literature and history.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
September 2004 - September 2005
Translating Cultures leadership fellowship
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2012 - August 2015
Exoticism, hybridity and the persistence of Polynesia.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
March 2003
Critical edition of codex MP4
DISCANTUS MORE HISPANO SL (SPAIN)
January 2012 - May 2012
Representations of India in French texts 1754-1815.
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
September 2005 - August 2007
'The Bloody Writing is for ever torn': Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
August 2007
Forbidden Journeys: The Travel Writing of Ella Maillart
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
April 2007 - December 2007
'Descendre dans l'intraduisible, en eprouver la secousse': Bouvier and Barthes in China and Japan.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
July 2005
Phillip Leverhulme Prize
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
October 2006 - September 2009
The twentieth-century review in French.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
June 2003
Exoticism: from theory to practice - Victor Segalen's Essai sur l'exotisme and Equipée.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2006 - May 2006