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Professor Will Fowler Co-Director School of Modern Languages (Spanish) Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century Mexican Political History; Pronunciamientos; Insurrectionary Political Culture and Civil War; Biographical ResearchAreas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th Century Latin American Politics; Europe and the Americas in the 1860s; Mexican Biographies Current Postgraduate Research Students working on the long nineteenth century: – Julia Hieske, ‘Shaping the U.S. American Gaze on Mexico: An Analysis of T. Phillip Terry’s Guidebook to Mexico and its Sociocultural Implications Within the Wider Discourse of U.S. Tourism to Porfirian Mexico’ – Alejandro Adame Basilio, ‘The Discourse of Equality in Mexico, 1808-1848’
Professor Mary Orr Co-Director & Founder School of Modern Languages (French) Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century French Literature; Histories and Cultures of 19th Century Science; French Women’s Writing (19th-21st Century) Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th Century French/Francophone Literary-Cultural Studies; French and Comparative Histories of Natural Science; French Women’s Writing; Hybrid and Intermedial Literary/Literary-Scientific Genres Current Postgraduate Research Students: – Tomas Vancisim, ‘Visualising the University of St Andrews Biographical Registrar’ (co-supervised with Computer Science) – Amy McTurk, ‘Multimedial Portraits of Artist as Woman: A Case Study of Female Creativity and Subjectivity in the work of George Sand (1804-1876) and Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)’ – Dr Sarah Arens (BA postdoc), ‘Constructing a Geopolitics of Nationhood: Belgium’s Scientific and Cultural Colonial Project (1830-1958)’
Professor Seán Allan School of Modern Languages (German)
Dr Sarah Arens School of Modern Languages (French) Key Areas of Interest: Belgian colonialism (19th-20th centuries), Histories and Cultures of 19th-century Science, Museums and world fairs, Nationalism and statehood; African intellectual history; World literature in French; Critical Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities (19th-21st centuries)
Dr Andrew Cusack School of Modern Languages (German)
Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith School of History Key Areas of Interest: Global history; history of science; consumption; collecting, and gender in the long eighteenth century
Dr Ricardo Fernandez Romero School of Modern Languages (Spanish) Key Areas of Interest: Autobiography; Memory; Materialism; Photography; Journalism Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Spanish Realist and Naturalist Prose Writing; Spanish Journalism; Spanish Autobiography in the 19th Century
Professor Aileen Fyfe School of History
Dr Katie Garner School of English Key Areas of Interest: King Arthur in the 19th Century; Women’s Writing; Antiquarianism and Folklore; Mermaids Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Romantic and Victorian Women’s Writing; 19th Century Medievalism; Gothic Literature; Book History and Reading Practices; Feminist Theory Current Postgraduate Research Students: – James Erickson, ‘Let the King Reign: Tennysonian Aurthuriana and Victorian Platonism’
Dr Luke Gartlan School of Art History Key Areas of Interest: Histories and Theories of Photography; Transnational Visual Cultures; Japanese Modern Art; Orientalism and Japonisme; Asia-Pacific Visual Exchanges Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: Histories of Photography; Cross-Cultural Visual History; Japanese Visual Culture; Colonial Representation Current and Recent Postgraduate Research Students: -Carrine Chelhot Lemyre, ‘The Maison Bonfils in the Middle East’ -Édouard de Saint-Ours, ‘Photographing Indio-China: State Archives and French Colonialism’ (Cotutelle with Université de Havare) -Nora Labo, ‘Competing Construction of Nature in Early Photographs of Vegetation’ -Alexandre Supartono, ‘Re-Imag(in)ing History: Photography and the Sugar Industry of Colonial Java’
Professor Linda Goddard School of Art History Key Areas of Interest: 19th and early 20th Century French Art and Literature; Artists’ Writings; Word and Image Studies Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th and early 20th Century French art; Relations Between Art and Literature in the 19th Century; Artist’s Writings; Visual and Literary Cultures of Travel and Encounters in the Colonial Context Recent Postgraduate Research Students: -Maria Golovteeva, ‘Fernand Khnopff Art and Photography in the 19th Century (1858-1921)’ -Eunjee Lee, ‘The Selling of the ‘Exotic’ Far East: Western Printmakers in East Asia (1899-1960)’ co-supervised by Jeremy Howard and Michelle Huang
Professor Mark Harris Department of Social Anthropology For more information, please visit Prof. Harris’ departmental website.
Julia Hieske School of Modern Languages (Spanish)
Dr Bill Jenkins School of History
Professor Robert Lethbridge School of Modern Languages (French)
Dr Sara Lodge School of English
Dr Felicity Loughlin School of History
Dr Christos Lynteris Department of Social Anthropology
Amy McTurk School of Modern Languages (French) Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century French Literature; French Women’s Writing; Intertextuality and Intermediality; Representations of Women Artists
Dr Stephanie O’Rourke School of Art History
Dr Birgit Röder School of Modern Languages (German)
Dr Bernhard Struck School of History Key Areas of Interest: Continental European History; Transnational and Comparative History; Enlightenment; History of Science; Cartography; Spatial History; Esperanto Movement Recent Postgraduate Research Students: – Matt Ylitalo, ‘Dundee Whaling in Global Transmaritime Perspectives’ – Marcel Koschek, ‘Polish Esperanto Movement in Translocal and Transnational Perspectives’ – Pilar da Lamo, ‘Catalan Esperanto Movement between Region, State, and Internationalism’ – Adam Dunn, ‘Circulation and Ideas of Statistic in Europe Around 1800’ – Sophie Dunn, ‘Family Travels in post-Napoleonic Europe’ – Tom Cunningham (postdoc), ‘Empire and Scottish Mission to Kenya’
Professor Emma Sutton School of English Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: 19th Century Musical-Literary Relations; Decadence and Aestheticism; The work and reception of Richard Wagner; Aubrey Beardsley Former Postgraduate Research Students: – Anna Watson, ‘Music Lessons and the Construction of Womanhood in English Fiction (1870-1914)’ – Jeremiah Mercurio, ‘Fantasy as a Mode of British and Irish Literary Decadence (1885-1925)’ – Margaux Pouymirou, ‘The Sixth Sense: Synaesthesia and British Aestheticism (1860-1900)’
Dr Gregory Tate School of English Key Areas of Interest: 19th Century; Poetry; Literature and Science; Literature and Philosophy; Literature and Psychology; History of Education, specifically of language learning Recent Postgraduate Research Students: – Dr Suz Garrard, ‘Manufacturing Selves: The Poetics of Self-Representation and Identity in the Poetry of Three “Factory Girls” (1840-1882)’
Dr Margarita Vaysman School of Modern Languages (Russian) Key Areas of Interest: Gender; Co-authorism; Realism; Metafiction; Novel Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: History of the Novel; History of Ideas; Narrative Studies; Gender and Queer History and Theory; 19th Century Russian Literature; Narrative Transvestism and Literary Cross-dressing
Professor Richard Whatmore School of History Key Areas of Interest: Political Thought; Intellectual History; Liberalism; Political Economy Areas of Postgraduate Research Supervision: After the Enlightenment (Leverhulme Funded Research Project) Current Postgraduate Research Students: – Lasse Anderson, ‘Land Ownership and Political Thought in 19th Century European Thought’
Dr Michael White School of Modern Languages (German)
Dr Claire Whitehead School of Modern Languages (Russian)
Professor Judith Wolfe School of Divinity