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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Dr Joseph Twist The intersection of philosophy and religion, and the reconceptualisation of community, subjectivity and belonging in contemporary German culture, with a particular focus on minority German literature and writers of a Muslim background. |
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German modernism/classical modernity; postwar and contemporary German literature; cultural theories of time and temporality; German cultural memory since 1945; German-Jewish literature, cultural theory.
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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 |
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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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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Corpus linguistics, terminology, translation and discourse analysis. Email: sandrine.peraldi@ucd.ie |
Last updated: 16 September 2020