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Academic Staff
Dr Susana Afonso Language contact, variation and change. Cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Ana Belen Angulo Rufs Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Caroline Blay Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Professor Michelle Bolduc Streatham Campus, Exeter
Rossella Bongi Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Zoë Boughton The sociolinguistics and dialectology of French, especially phonological variation and change; levelling and standardisation; perceptions of and attitudes towards linguistic variation. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jonathan Bradbury Early modern Spain and its literature (prose, poetry, drama); Spain-Italy relations in the 16th and 17th centuries; the printed book and manuscript culture in early modern Spain; Lope de Vega; early modern Portuguese authors writing in Spanish. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Simon Bréus French, with an interest in comic book-related literary tourism Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Katie Brown Contemporary Latin American cultural studies; Venezuela; narratives of migration; identity and belonging; translation and publishing; women's writing. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Thomas Burnham Chinese studies, Sino-Soviet relations, and PRC history. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles Modern and contemporary Spanish feminism, representations of generic and sexual ambiguity, letters, diaries and autobiographies. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Hadaya Chisholm-El-Saad Streatham Campus, Exeter
Fernando Concha Lecturer (E&S) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Aidan Coveney Variation and change in French, especially in interrogatives, but also other aspects of the grammar of the spoken French of France. Administrative role: Senior Tutor. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Fiona Cox Head of Department; Reception of classical literature, especially Virgil and Ovid, in literature and culture since the nineteenth century; contemporary women’s writing in French. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sonia Cunico Intercultural Communication, Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Teacher Education, Ecolinguistics, Translation Studies. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Christopher Day Streatham Campus, Exeter
Alice Farris Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Derek Flitter Spanish Romanticism, nineteenth- and twentieth- century Spanish intellectual history and poetry, the recovery of historical memory in Spain. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Clementine Force Lecturer in French – Multilingualism, language contact, language acquisition, communication strategies, metalinguistic and cross-linguistic awareness. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Juan Garcia-Precedo Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Damien Gaucher Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Francesco Goglia Multilingualism and language contact in Italian immigrant communities. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Florence Gomez Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jessica Hagley Lecturer in Spanish Streatham Campus, Exeter
Astrid Hermes Methodology and didactics of language teaching for online and in-person delivery; language for specific purposes in higher education (LSPHE), design and delivery of “for business” programmes including assessment; programme design and coordination of open-to-all courses. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Thomas Hinton Senior Lecturer in French. Specialist in medieval French and Occitan literature, language and culture. In particular, I have published on multilingualism and the French of medieval Britain; language theory and pedagogy; troubadours; and Arthurian literature. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Katharine Hodgson Katharine works on twentieth-century Russian poetry, exploring ways in which our understanding of the poetry of the Soviet period continues to evolve in the present e.g. through changes to the poetic canon that are connected with questions of memory and identity. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Adam Horsley Early modern French literature and history; libertine literature (particularly Théophile de Viau and François Maynard); poetry; criminal history; manuscript culture; history of the book; archival research; the analysis of images. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Shuo/Jessie Huang Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mrs Iryna Ilnytska Streatham Campus, Exeter
Hannah Jordan Pastoral Mentor Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Yuliya Kostyuk Lecturer in Russian (E&S), Fellow HEA. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ina Linge Modern and contemporary German literature and culture, history of sexuality, queer studies, medical humanities, environmental humanities, animal studies. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Emily Lygo 20th-Century Russian poetry; Anglo-Soviet cultural relations, especially during the Cold War; Translation Studies and especially the translation of Russian literature in Britain during the Cold War. Censorship during the Cold War. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Hannah Lyons Pastoral Mentor Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Dr Eliana Maestri Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Muireann Maguire Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. Cultural reception of science and scientists in Russian and Soviet culture. Tolstoy’s classicism; childbirth in Russian literature. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Muireann Maguire Personal Chair Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Richard Mansell Translator Studies and Translation Studies; Translated literature and the publishing industry; Global flows of translation; Catalan and Spanish translation and translation history; Sociology of translation. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ana Martins Portuguese feminism and Lusophone postcolonial cultural studies. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Cathy McAteer Classic and contemporary Russian literature in English translation; Penguin Russian Classics; translation publishing and book history; literary translator studies; Cold War Ru-Eng female literary translators; gender; translation activism. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Edward Mills Lecturer in French Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Melisa Moore Latin American culture and intellectual history, mainly Peruvian, Andean and Mexican; issues of (self-)representation, ‘decolonization’ & gender, regarding ‘subaltern’ and indigenous peoples; Indigenist/literary vs. oral/visual testimonial narratives. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Isabel Moros Innovation in methodology of teaching second language acquisition. Integration of intercultural elements in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Flipping the classroom pedagogies and task oriented approaches to learning. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Christian Mossmann Senior Lecturer, German Language Coordinator and Exeter Lead for the European University Tandem (EUniTa) project. Interested in mindfulness, telecollaboration, ab initio language teaching and the use of portfolios. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Katharine Murphy Spanish Modernism; Comparative Literature, especially early 20th-century Spanish and English fiction; Pío Baroja and the ‘Generation of 1898’; Spanish post-war novels; cultural representations of illness and the body. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Sam Osborn Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Luciano Parisi Italian literature, from the 18th to the 21st century. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Chloe Paver German museum exhibitions and memorial sites; cultural memory; representations of the Third Reich in German and Austrian fiction and film. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Ben Phillips Role: Lecturer in Russian. Research interests: Russian cultural, intellectual and literary history, C19-early C20. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Natalia Pinazza Transnational cinema with a particular focus on Latin America and the Portuguese-speaking world. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Lucie Riou Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Alessia Risi Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Hugh Roberts French Renaissance Literature; gossip, nonsense and obscenity in French Renaissance texts. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Loreto Romero Lecturer in Spanish (E&S) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr David Rosenthal Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Isabel Santafé Lecturer in Hispanic Studies (E&S). Specialist in Transcreation (Translation Studies). Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Maria Scott Post-1800 literature (novel, poetry, prose poetry), especially Stendhal and Baudelaire; literature and empathy/ self-change; theoretical and psychological approaches to literature. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Helena Taylor Early modern France: intellectual history; classical reception; cultures of learning; gender studies; translation studies. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr José Carlos Tenreiro Prego Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Tom Trevor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Helen Vassallo Helen Vassallo is Associate Professor of French and Translation. In 2018 she set up Translating Women, a research project that bridges academic and industry contexts, and aims to assess and challenge the barriers faced by women’s writing in translation. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Ana Villoslada Associate Lecturer in Spanish (E&S). Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Adam Watt Marcel Proust; the history of the novel in French; late-nineteenth and twentieth-century writing in French from a comparative perspective; poetry and creative translation. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Yanling Yang Lecturer in Languages & Communications. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Birgul Yilmaz Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication (Education and Research) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Samir Zarqane Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Wenqian Zhang Lecturer in Chinese; Literary translation; sociology of translation; translation and media; the translator’s brand; translator archives and papers; contemporary Chinese literature and culture; book history and print culture. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Yue Zhuang The philosophy of Chinese landscapes and European interaction with Chinese landscapes Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger Cultural history of Berlin in the 20th and 21st centuries; German and European culture in the interwar years (c. 1910-1939); Souvenirs (material culture) and metropolitan tourism; Hotels, railway stations and department stores in film and literature. Streatham Campus, Exeter
Research Staff
Dr Maria Elena Alampi Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Olivia Glaze Streatham Campus, Exeter
Emeritus Professors
Professor Keith Cameron Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Malcolm Cook Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Susan Hayward Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Richard Hitchcock Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor James Kearns Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Martina Lauster Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Alan Robertshaw Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Ricarda Schmidt Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Lesley Sharpe Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Martin Sorrell Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor W Edgar Yates Streatham Campus, Exeter
Honorary University Fellows
Don Boyd Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Cristina Burke-Trees Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Roger Cockrell Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mary Coghill Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Mark Davie Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Shaoxin Dong Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jonathan Evans Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Cynthia Gamble Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Timothy Reeve Honorary Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sara Smart Honorary Associate Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sam Smiles Honorary Professor Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Maria Thomas Honorary Senior Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Valentina Todino Honorary Associate Research Fellow Streatham Campus, Exeter
PhD Students
Abdulkareem Adnan The Translator as a mediator of Languages and Cultures: Comparative analysis of translators of the Qur’an Streatham Campus, Exeter
Sarah Alateeg Streatham Campus, Exeter
Slwa Alhammad Death of the author and Birth of Adapter in a literary work Streatham Campus, Exeter
Abeer Alkahtani Strategies of Subtitling English Literary-based films into Arabic between Domestication and Foreignization: A case study of Three Versions of Jane Eyre Streatham Campus, Exeter
Coline Blaizeau The Metafictive Marvellous in Perceforest Streatham Campus, Exeter
Jiahao Fei The Evolution of Postcolonial Writing in Hong Kong Literature Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ying Huang China’s Cultural Diplomacy in Arab Countries (1955-1966) Streatham Campus, Exeter
Katy Humberstone From Mines to Signs: Negotiating identity through the lens of the Cornish-Mexican Linguistic Landscape Streatham Campus, Exeter
Yang Lu Literature Adaptions in China: From Online literature to TV Drama Streatham Campus, Exeter
Hui-hua Lu Alice’s Adventures in Taiwan: Through the translation of Wonderland and What Alice Found There Streatham Campus, Exeter
Anna Maslenova Anglo-Russian Cultural Interactions in 1890-1930: The Microhistories of Translators and their networks Streatham Campus, Exeter
Sean Morris Self-translation of Mathematical Texts in Seventeenth-century France: The Cases of Pascal, Mersenne and Hérigone Streatham Campus, Exeter
Seulki Oh Study on Translation in International Relations by Analysing News that Quotes Foreign Media: The Korean Peninsula Issues Streatham Campus, Exeter
Joshua Taylor Linguistic diversity and perceptions of British-national identity Streatham Campus, Exeter
Yandi Wang Art in Translation: contemporary Chinese art in Chinese and English publications: A case study of the paintings of Xiao Gang Zhang (张晓刚), 1984 to 2014 Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mr Dave Weller The poet in the poetry of Ida Nappelbaum Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ying Zhang Reception of Chinese Xianxia TV Dramas in the English-Speaking World Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professional services staff
Steve Bassett Department Manager. Streatham Campus, Exeter