Research interests

I welcome research students who are interested in applied linguistics in its broadest sense. Qualitative and multiple/mixed methods approaches (incl. participatory and inclusive designs), interdisciplinary research as well as collaborations with institutions and organizations outside the University are all welcome. Interesting topics include but are not restricted to the following

• Individual multilingualism (from a socio-cultural perspective)
• Intercultural communication
• Interpersonal communication
• English as a Lingua Franca
• Translation and localization
• Multimodal communication (including audiovisual translation)
• Intercultural/contrastive pragmatics
• Register analysis (comparative/diachronic)
• Communication in organizations and institutions (including web-based communication)
• Business communication
• Interaction with technology (including user studies)
• Technology and science communication
• Risk, health and safety communication
• Medical communication
• Second language use
• Second language identities

Research interests

My research focuses on women's contribution to political culture (feminism, class struggle, regional and national identity) using literary writing, the visual arts and associational activity. I am also interested in 19th and 20th century German literature more widely, especially Realist and Naturalist writing, and on constructions of gender in German society and culture in the same period. Recent successful doctoral students have worked on illness narratives in contemporary literature and on German and Dutch lesbian networks in the interwar era.

Research interests

19th and 20th-century Spanish culture, literature and history (with a particular interest in the fin de siglo press and the works of Benito Pérez Galdós). Contemporary Canarian literature and identity.

Research interests

My research interests include comparative syntax, literary translation, film adaptation of literary works, the relationship between translation, intercultural communication and international development, translation of cartoons and modern French cinema. I currently focus on linguistic approaches to spoken and written language and how pragmatic meaning is affected in the translation of spoken dialogue into subtitles.

Research interests

20th and 21st century Catalan and peninsular Spanish literature,  culture, and cultural history, with a particular interest in gender, sexuality and physical/sporting culture, and cultural constructions of Catalan-ness. Teaching interests in all of the above, plus Translation Studies; and cultural representation of the Spanish Inquisition and its contemporary traces.

• Audiovisual Translation: creative subtitling, online collaborative subtitling (e.g. fansubbing, danmu subtitling, non-professional subtitling), empirical research in audiovisual translation (e.g. eye-tracking experiment), translation technologies, media accessibility.
• Multimodality: multimodal discourse analysis, intermodal relations, multimodality in translation.
• Digital media culture: social media platforms, participatory culture, citizen media, internet cultures, informal media cultures.

Siwen would be keen to supervise PGR students in the areas of audiovisual translation and multimodality in translation.

Research interests

I welcome research students who are interested in Twentieth century French cultural history. I can supervise students in the following areas: French and Francophone cartoon art (especially Pilote & Charlie hebdo); First wave French feminism (see Helene Brion especially); inter-war university education in Britain and France; civilian experience of the Occupation (1940-1944); expatriate literary culture in Paris in the inter-war (see Sylvia Beach & Shakespeare & Co); women's sport between 1900 and the present day in Britain and France. 

I am particularly passionate about original projects which engage with unpublished archival material. 

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Research interests

Contemporary European and African literature written in Portuguese, especially the literary production of emigrants in all their expressions. 

Research interests

Francophone / postcolonial literature and culture, and associated debates on category- and canon-formation. Publishing in 'francophone' West Africa, and related questions of fair trade, development, agency, and ‘francophonie’ as a colonial legacy and contemporary political project.

Research interests

Narcotrafficking and organised crime, white collar crime; issues relating to the protection of human rights, US/Latin American relations (political refugees); the media and freedom of expression and new social movements in Latin America; Popular Music in the Hispanic World.

1. German literary, intellectual, and cultural history from 18th century to the present. (For example: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and their legacies; print culture; comparative perspectives).
2. Swiss Studies. (For example: hotel literature; hospitality; cliché and the construction of Swissness.)
3. Cultural Studies: (For example: media and politics, self-fashioning and wellbeing; the body.)

My research and teaching interests overlap considerably, and I am jointly passionate about them. I have a strong interest in the role of language in everyday life and the professions, including the adoption and change of identities and identification processes, interaction between speakers of different languages, roles of equality and inequality in language use. My research includes pedagogy, discourse and conversation analysis with a strong focus on intercultural communication, in particular in relation to self-other positioning and identification in interaction. Recently I am also developing an interest in internationalisation processes in higher education, and the role of intercultural dialogue in developing intercultural competence and citizenship.