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![]() 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’
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![]() Professor Mary Orr |
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![]() Professor Seán Allan School of Modern Languages (German) |
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![]() 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) |
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![]() Dr Andrew Cusack School of Modern Languages (German) |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() Professor Aileen Fyfe School of History |
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![]() 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’ |
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![]() 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’ |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() Professor Mark Harris Department of Social Anthropology For more information, please visit Prof. Harris’ departmental website. |
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![]() Julia Hieske School of Modern Languages (Spanish) |
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![]() Dr Bill Jenkins School of History |
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![]() Professor Robert Lethbridge School of Modern Languages (French) |
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![]() Dr Sara Lodge School of English |
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![]() Dr Felicity Loughlin School of History |
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![]() Dr Christos Lynteris Department of Social Anthropology |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() Dr Stephanie O’Rourke School of Art History |
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![]() Dr Birgit Röder School of Modern Languages (German) |
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![]() Dr Bernhard Struck |
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![]() Professor Emma Sutton |
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![]() Dr Gregory Tate |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() 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’ |
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![]() Dr Michael White School of Modern Languages (German) |
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![]() Dr Claire Whitehead School of Modern Languages (Russian) |
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![]() Professor Judith Wolfe School of Divinity |