Research Interests
French
German
Italian
Spanish and Portuguese
Linguistics
Chinese
French
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Contemporary French poetry and poetics; the poet as critic; text and image; French-Canadian literature; contemporary migrant writing in French. Email: michael.brophy@ucd.ie |
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Associate Professor Derval Conroy 17th-century literature, history of ideas and political thought; queenship; early modern feminisms; the history of equality; Gabrielle Suchon; women dramatists; print culture; text and image relations; festival books; early modern ceremonial. Email: derval.conroy@ucd.ie |
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Twentieth-century literature; literary and cultural theory; intellectual and cultural history; cultural studies; anthropology; history and theory of cinema; history and theory of photography; history and theory of twentieth-century art and architecture; museology. Email: douglas.smith@ucd.ie |
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Twentieth- and twenty-first century prose, particularly avant-garde (nouveau roman) and experimental fiction; particular interests are the work of Marcel Proust, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint. My critical engagement with literary practices is supported particularly by reflection on theories of reading, of irony, of dialogue, and of the nature of "literature" in general. Email: emer.obeirne@ucd.ie |
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Postcolonial writing in French (especially from/about the Caribbean, North, Africa, Canada, the Indian Ocean, Sub-Saharan Africa and what France called Indochine); the work of Lafcadio Hearn; the travel writings of Paul Morand; the introspective writings of authors such as Colette, Proust, Paul Valéry. I would be happy to supervise research in any of the above areas. Email: mary.gallagher@ucd.ie |
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Sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, language, migration and identity, Applied Linguistics Email: vera.regan@ucd.ie |
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Associate Professor Síofra Pierse 18th-century French historiography, literature and history of ideas: Voltaire’s historical and historiographical works; the city in 18th-century French literature; 18th-century history of ideas [currently: Diderot and narrative scepticism]; and the 18th-century female-authored French narrative [Châtelet; Tencin; Riccoboni; Graffigny; Charrière; Gouges; Staël]. Email: siofra.pierse@ucd.ie |
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Flaubert, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Cultural Theory, Individualism, Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy of Literature. Email: stephen.schwartz@ucd.ie |
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Assistant Professor Manu Braganca Contemporary France (1789-present), reception and reader-response theories, memories of WWII in France and Europe, war narratives, violence, emotions and ideology in fiction, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Hussards, Romain Gary, Anna Langfus, Claude Lanzmann, Yannick Haenel Email: manu.braganca@ucd.ie |
German
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Continental Philosophy (especially German Philosophy), The Relationship between Philosophy and Literature; Intellectual History; German literature of the Enlightenment, Romantic and Modernist periods; Cultural Theory; Aesthetics. Email: jeanne.riou@ucd.ie |
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Contemporary German-language literature with particular focus on identity in post-unification Germany, representations of wellbeing and happiness in literature, literary treatments of material culture and the everyday, posthumanism and literature. Twentieth century drama and theories of comedy. Email: gillian.pye@ucd.ie |
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Translation studies, German-Scandinavian literary relations, German and Austrian literature late 19th and early 20th century Email: strumper.krobb@ucd.ie |
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Interests: 18th-19th century literature and history of ideas, Adaptation studies, 19th-century opera as adaptive genre, contemporary Swiss-German literature Email: siobhan.donovan@ucd.ie |
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The intersection of philosophy, religion and literature and the interaction between mystical and postmodern thought in the work of Zafer Senocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu and Navid Kermani (all contemporary German authors of varying Muslim backgrounds), everyday and resistance to homogenising forces in contemporary German literature Email: joseph.twist@ucd.ie |
Italian
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The intersection between syntax, semantics, and morphology; lexical semantics and conceptualization; lexical categories, especially nouns and the linguistic encapsulation of mental ontology; number and countability; the grammatical and mental representation of proper names; Distributed Morphology and the status of word roots; Irish morphosyntax. Email: paolo.acquaviva@ucd.ie |
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Associate Professor Ursula Fanning Gender and genre; Italian women's writing, especially nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction (and its critical reception both in Italy and beyond); autobiographical writing; feminist, literary and psychoanalytical theory; the theatre of Luigi Pirandello. Email: ursula.fanning@ucd.ie |
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Assistant Professor Francesco Lucioli Early-modern Italian literature, language and culture, in both Neo-Latin and the vernacular; relationship between literature and visual arts; relationship between literature and religion; Renaissance and Baroque Rome; chivalric and epic poetry; women's writing and the "querelle des femmes"; ethics and conduct literature; art of memory; history of theatre; Renaissance debate on language and grammar; eighteenth-century satirical writings. Email: francesco.lucioli@ucd.ie |
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Assistant Professor Enrica Ferrara My research interests include: the intersection of theatrical and narrative discourses in Italian literature from its origins to modern times; topics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italian Literature; identity and agency in the representation of the posthuman subject; performative realism, new materialism; gender identity; translation and literary translation of disaster narratives, eco-translation; the works of Pierpaolo Pasolini (literature and film); performativity and performance in the construction of subject identities across several media (film, prose narrative, theatre, poetry). Email: enrica.ferrara@ucd.ie |
Spanish and Portuguese
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Twentieth-Century Spanish literature (especially Antonio Machado and the Generation of 1927); Translation. |
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Surrealism in Spain and Mexico; the historical avant-gardes; visual cultures; gender studies; hybrid bodies/identities; the 1927 Generation in Spain. Email: tara.plunkett@ucd.ie |
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Associate Professor Charo Hernandez Second language teaching and learning, assessment of student learning and the professional development of teachers. I am particularly interested in collaborative language learning, students’ self- and peer assessment, and the role of reflection in L2 learning. Email: charo.hernandez@ucd.ie |
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The novels of the Franco era; the work of Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio and Miguel Delibes; peninsular literature from the late nineteenth-century to the present. Aspects of Latin-American fiction. Email: jeremy.squires@ucd.ie |
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Banditry in Latin American literature and culture from the 19th century to the present, narco-culture and narco-literature, cultural representations of women bandits, rebels and fighters in Latin America, masculinities and violence in Latin American literature. Email: pascale.baker@ucd.ie |
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Latin American literature, especially Cuban literature; the relationship between contemporary cultural production, cultural identity and society in Cuba; Spanish and Latin American detective fiction, and the representation of cultural memory and cultural identity in crime fiction. Email: diana.battaglia@ucd.ie |
Linguistics
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Prof Jamal Ouhalla Syntactic theory; Historical Syntax Email: jamal.ouhalla@ucd.ie |
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Contact Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Creole languages (sociolinguistics, pragmatics, genesis, applied linguistics), the sociolinguistics of Irish English, language documentation and language description, language and migration, language variation and change, language ideology Email: bettinamigge@ucd.ie |
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Phonology, Phonetics, Phonology and phonetics of Irish and Celtic languages, Minority languages Email: maire.nichiosain@ucd.ie |
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Philosophy of Language, Language Acquisition and Impairment, and Semantics. Email: feargal.murphy@ucd.ie |
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Last updated: 31st January 2019
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