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Research Student Profiles

Find out more about our current postgraduate research students in the School of Modern Languages.

PhD Students
Cícero de Almeida Oliveira The Ludic Artificiality and the Distancing Effect of Louis Jouvet's Body in Cinema 
Kevin Buckley  Examining Change in Anglo Norman French Using Computational Methods 
Hanna Burdorf 'Bilingual' Education for Uyghurs in Xinjiang: A 'Creeping' Linguicide 
Yosley Carrero Chávez Affective Polarisation Through One-Party States: The Cuban Case Study
Yang Chen The Institutionalisation of Court Interpreting in China (1901-1949) 
Yixuan Deng Translating Feminism and (Re)constructing Female Images in China: A comparative analysis of the Chinese translations of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind 
Sophie Ellis Bienvenue re-viewed: Representing and reframing hospitality in contemporary French visual culture  
Faye (Jiaqi) Feng Expert Performers' Multisensory Integration during Speech-in-Speech Recognition and Adaptation to 'Noise' in Adverse Conditions
Zijun (Daisy) Feng Fan Subtitling of Lesbian Representation from English to Chinese in Anglophone Film and TV
Natalie Heidaripour  Examine the Role and Impact of Museums and Heritage Sites on Peacebuilding and Community Cohesion
Ailin Li Reloading Herstories: A Multimodal Case Study on Shifted Female Representation in Video Game Localisation
Zhengchao Li Habitus, Culture and Gender: A Case Study of Wilt L. Idema and his English Translations of China's Four Great Folktales 
Alice Shyun-Yih Lin A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Expression in the Translation of 'Hong Lou Meng'
Tom Mason  'Ballets that are dreams': How surrealism has influenced the Hollywood film musical
Jessica Rainey Assessing the Impact of Creative Translation in the Classroom
Vic Riveros Schober Memory, Intangible Heritage and Storytelling in the Second and Third Generation of the Southern Cone Dictatorships’ Diaspora
Kaloyan Stefanov The Role of the Negative Morpheme no/non in Old Spanish
Mariana Tapia Sanchez

Art, Community and Identity-Making: Redefining 'Latin American-ness' Abroad and Exploring Cultural Networks for Latinxs Living in the UK

Emily Upson Influencing Governance in Xinjiang, Northwest China: How to utilise advocacy expertise to identify strategies and opportunities of change-making
Jing Wang A Study on Interpreters' Stress Coping Strategies in Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI)
Tianyu Yu  Chinese Modernity and Gender re-constructed in Lin Yutang's transcreation work: A case study on Moments in Peking
Langqiu Zhang An Exploration of Metapoetry in Contemporary Chinese Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s

 

MLitt Students
Ruby Buttolph Queer Female and Transmasculine Indentities in Contemporary Brazilian Music
Jennie O'Donnell Appetite and Shame in Contemporary French Women's Writing