Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Potential Research Areas and Supervisors
Potential Research Areas and Supervisors
![Ozouf Amedegnato](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29_2.png?itok=ZcGcYDDz)
Ozouf Amedegnato
Sociolinguistics; applied linguistics; linguistics-literature interface; Emile Benveniste
![Mushegh Asatryan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29%20copy_1.png?itok=Sd1elV0i)
Mushegh Asatryan
Religious, cultural and social history of the medieval Islamic Middle East; interface between religion, culture and society; Islamic history; Shi’ism; Arabic and Persian languages
![Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29%20copy%202_1.png?itok=06l0BEur)
Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
Latin-American cinemas, popular cultures and literatures; gender, ethnicity, and class issues in cinemas and literatures from Latin America, including Argentina, Colombia, Mexico; application of the lens of theories on social space, genre, performance, neocolonialism, and transnational studies to contemporary cinemas, audiovisual materials, and literary productions of the Hispanic world.
![Marie-Andrée Bergeron](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29%20copy%203_1.png?itok=9HSAZAfG)
Marie-Andrée Bergeron
20th-century Québec literature; discourse analysis; feminist studies; literary theories
![Elena Bratishenko](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29%20copy%204_1.png?itok=Xu2rAlEG)
Elena Bratishenko
Slavic historical linguistics; diachronic nominal morphosyntax; cognitive approaches to linguistics; Russian language and culture; the dialect of Medieval Novgorod; Medieval Slavic literature; Proto-Indo-European
![Eleonora Buonocore](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-08/photo.jpg?itok=iOejL_Wy)
Eleonora Buonocore
Medieval and Renaissance studies; philosophy; Italian literature and film; Italian language.
![Francesca Cadel](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29%20copy%205_1.png?itok=Tjny7esO)
Francesca Cadel
Italian and Film Studies, Modernism and Comparative Literature, with a focus on the Postwar Period, and authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Umberto Saba, Ezra Pound, History of Ideas, Philosophy, and Translation. Italian classics such as Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi and Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio are also included.
![Wei Cai](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%283%29%20copy%206_0.png?itok=uTHShDwn)
Wei Cai
Second Language Listening, Vocabulary Acquisition, Language Teaching Materials Development and Evaluation, Second Language Acquisition, Chinese Applied Linguistics
![Mark Conliffe](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%284%29_0.png?itok=RlVtrLmx)
Mark Conliffe
Russian culture, Russian language, 19th and early 20th-century Russian literature
![Cheryl Dueck](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%284%29%20copy.png?itok=cowSX1H6)
Cheryl Dueck
GDR and post-unification German literature and culture; German and Central European cinema
![Cyrielle Faivre](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-10/Cyrielle%20Faivre.jpg?itok=3iQ9vEam)
Cyrielle Faivre
Prison and penal colony in nineteenth-century literature; interactions between visual art and literature in the Nineteenth Century; contemporary French pop culture; chanson engagée; neurodiversity in French literature
![Sélom K. Gbanou](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%285%29.png?itok=j2CbW3hF)
Sélom K. Gbanou
Francophone African Literature; postcolonial studies; theatre; visual arts; literary theories
![Angela George](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%285%29%20copy.png?itok=2C2KmYeZ)
Angela George
Sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; second language pedagogy; Hispanic linguistics; language variation; language contact
![Elizabeth Montes](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%285%29%20copy%204.png?itok=BlZY6E9v)
Elizabeth Montes
Latin American prose fiction; Latin American women writers; literature and film in Latin America
![Jean-François Richer](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%285%29%20copy%205.png?itok=zNsMWFI9)
![Rachel Schmidt](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%285%29%20copy%206.png?itok=GXmY3-lC)
Rachel Schmidt
Cervantes; early-modern Spanish literature; visual arts and literature; literary theory
![Luis Torres](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%285%29%20copy%207.png?itok=TQ5rYDlM)
Luis Torres
Contemporary Spanish-American literature; exile literature; creative writing; prose, poetry and theatre
![Devika Vijayan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%286%29_0.png?itok=VF9CTq_0)
Devika Vijayan
Travel literature, 17th century French literature, Jesuit writings on Canada and India
![Martin Wagner](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%286%29%20copy%202.png?itok=AQnNBxnU)
Martin Wagner
18th- and 19th-century European literature; German intellectual history; German literature
![Benjamin Whaley](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%286%29%20copy%203.png?itok=E5VUKwuG)
Benjamin Whaley
Modern Japanese Literature, Manga and Anime Studies, Videogame Studies, Music