Our multi-disciplinary research in modern languages (French, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin) investigates questions of representations, interpretations and transmissions in film, fiction, journalism, opera, print media, theatre, philosophy and translation.
Our main areas of research include:
- literature and intellectual history
- exile, trauma and wellbeing
- women writers, performers and audiences
- translating people, cultures and heritages
Within these, we have ongoing research projects which involve working closely with a range of external partners.
We offer a wide range of PhD opportunities in modern languages. Discover more about our postgraduate research opportunities.
Collaborative research
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Research projects
Translating people, cultures & heritages
Current research in this strand thinks through the implications of (metaphorical, interlingual and multimodal) translation in a range of contexts, including testimonial texts and museums.
Exile, trauma & wellbeing
As researchers, we are particularly interested in the exiles which resulted from WWI (1914-18) the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and WWII (1939-45) and their long-lasting consequences on the individuals, as well as on the societies and countries involved.
Women writers, performers & audiences
Our work in this strand examines the role of women writers, performers, producers and agents of social change in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Literature & intellectual history
Our research centres on twentieth- and twenty-first-century movements including the resistance and terrorism and on the legacy of particular individuals.
Bridges of Exile
This title brings together a series of 14 photographs whose proposal for reflection deals with one of the great challenges of this and the last century: exile.
GloMa
The GloMa is a Glossary of María Zambrano’s key concepts.