PhD and MLitt community

Katherine Gosling

PhD candidate Spanish | Supervisor: Dr Tara Plunkett

Translating the Pain Experience in the Images and Texts of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo

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Matilde Icardi

PhD candidate Italian | Supervisor: Dr Serena Laiena

Gender, deception and violence in Italian Early modern theatre

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Caylum O’Neill

PhD candidate German | Supervisor: Dr Joseph Twist and Professor Gerardine Meaney (School of English, Drama and Film)

Depictions of Queer Migration to Berlin and London in 21st Century Literature and Television

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Qing Liang Meng

PhD candidate Linguistics | Supervisor: Dr Sandrine Peraldi

Promoting Interpreter Competence Through Input Enhancement of Prefabricated Lexical Chunks.

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Leire Sarto-Zubiaurre

PhD candidate Linguistics | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge and Dr Stephen Lucek

The Acquisition of Spanish as a Foreign Language by Irish learners

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Yasmeen Shaiei

PhD candidate Linguistics | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of evaluative language in online shopping communities.

Sofia Tinetti

PhD candidate Italian | Supervisor: Dr Matteo Leta and Dr Serena Laiena

Commedie dell’Altro: Otherness on the Italian Renaissance Stage

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Mingxuan Wei

PhD candidate Linguistics | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

Automatic Misogyny and Gendered Hate Speech Detection: A Study of the Interview between Ueno Chizuko and Vlogger Xixi Quan on Bilibili

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Gabi Widurek

PhD candidate Linguistics | Supervisor: Dr Sandrine Peraldi and Dr Stergiani Kostouplolu

Empowering Non Native English speakers in Business communication A corpus informed study of Fortune 500 c-Level Executives' Discourses and the Development of Learning Materials

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Franziska Wischerhoff

PhD candidate Linguistics | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge and Assoc Prof Máire Ní Chiosáin

Recent changes to ADE (Advanced Dublin English): A Sociophonetic analysis of new features and people’s attitudes towards them

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Maika (Chi Nguyen Mai)

PhD candidate French | Supervisor: Prof Mary Gallagher

Writing Home? Haiti and Vietnam in Postcolonial Autofiction in French.

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Mónica Galindo González

MLitt candidate Spanish | Supervisor: Dr Mary Farrelly and Dr Siobhan Donovan

A Portrait of Rosa Chacel: in between European and Spanish Modernism

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Lucille Raynal

PhD French (2024) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse

Eighteenth-Century Professional Women: Writing her Space

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Katherine Gosling

MLitt Spanish (2023) | Supervisor: Dr Tara Plunkett

The Cathartic Voyage: Transforming Pain into Knowledge in the Image and Text of Leonora Carrington

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Juan Manuel Real-Espinosa

PhD Spanish (2023) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Charo Hernandez

An evaluation of commercial MALL apps for learning Spanish as a Foreign Language: a study on the alignment of Babbel, Busuu and Duolingo with the Action-Oriented Approach

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Maria Polotto

PhD Spanish (2023) | Supervisor: Dr Diana Battaglia and Dr Pascale Baker

The Interaction between the Concepts of Cultural Consumption Gender Performativity and Posthumanism in Manuel Puig’s Narrative Ouvre: The Construction of a Posthuman Body.

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Rui Zhao

PhD Linguistics (2023) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

Chineseness in Contemporary Urban China: A Mixed Methods Study of the Linguistic Landscape of the Historic City of Xi’an

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Xixiang Zhao

PhD Linguistics (2023) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

Conflictual Interactions in CMC The case of Twitter contexts

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Mohammad Alenezi

PhD Linguistics (2022) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge and Dr Sandrine Peraldi

English in Kuwait: A Pattern-Driven Perspective

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Arwa Alyami

PhD Linguistics (2022) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Charo Hernandez

Classroom-based Language Assessment in a Saudi Context: Teachers' practices, beliefs and assessment literacy.

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Khalid Alsalim

PhD Linguistics (2022) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Paolo Acquaviva

A Descriptive Study of The Semantic Components of Arabic Impact Verbs – Arabic Gulf Variety

Bianca Rita Cataldi

PhD Italian (2022) | Supervisor: Prof Ursula Fanning

Labour and Factory Utopias Olivettian Writers and Testimonial Intent

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Emma Dunne

PhD French (2022) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse

The Pursuit of Happiness: Obstacles and Opportunities in the Complete Works of Isabelle de Charrière (1740-1805)

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Emanuela Caffe

PhD Italian (2021) | Supervisor: Prof Ursula Fanning

Elena Ferrante's Fictions and Feminism: A Narrative of 'Restitution'?

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Milica Djurdjevic-Flatley

PhD in Spanish (2020) | Supervisor: Dr Pascale Baker

The Indigenista Prose of Rosario Castellanos: a Precursor Model of Intersectionality

Annmarie Kelleher

PhD in Spanish (2020) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Philip Johnston and Dr Tara Plunkett

Harmonious Dissonance: Jazz-Age U.S.A. and Avant-gardism in the Poetry of Luis Cernuda, Federico Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti

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Rosemary Shannon

MLitt Linguistics (2020) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

A Corpus Linguistic study of morpho-syntactic features in Irish-English

Aileen Hanrahan

PhD Linguistics (2019) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

Understanding Academic Writing Development in Dyslexic Writers.

Peter Maguire

PhD Spanish (2019) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Jeremy Squires

Representing the Trauma of the Spanish Civil War: A Comparat ive Analysis of Selected Narratives from the 1940s and 2000s

Fergus O'Dwyer

PhD Linguistics (2019) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge and Assoc Professor Máire Ní Chiosáin

Language and Interactional Identity in a Dublin Suberb -GAA club members and the performance of masculinity

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Edward O Sullivan

PhD French (2019) | Supervisor: Assoc Professor Síofra Pierse

The Negation of Nihilism through Deadness in the Works of the Marquis de Sade

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Clarissa Oliveira

PhD Linguistics (2017) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan

Intergenerational Language Transmission and Ethnolinguistic Identity: A Study of the Polish Community in Mallet/Parana-Brazil.

Chloe Diskin

PhD French (2016) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan and Assoc Prof Charo Hernandez

Discourse-pragmatic variation and language ideologies among native and non-native speakers of English. A case study of Polish and Chinese migrants in Dublin, Ireland.

Lauren Geppi

PhD German (2016) | Supervisor: Dr Jeanne Riou

Becoming Chimera: Human-Animal Hybrid Forms in Kafka’s Erotic Language

Jennifer Martyn

PhD French (2016) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan

Beyond the Gender-Gap in Foreign Language Education An Exploration of Identity Practices and Language Ideologies in an Irish Secondary School.

Maria Rabadan Vega

PhD Spanish (2016) | Supervisor: Dr Paul Rankin

Writing and Rewriting Evita: The Construction and Reconstruction of the Iconic Image of Eva Peron in Spain and the USA

Mirna Vohnsen

PhD Spanish (2016) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Jeremy Squires

Rethinking Argentinidad: Portrayals of Jews in Comtemporary Argentine Cinema

Hema Kesevan

PhD Linguistics (2015) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

Classroom Ideologies and Teaching Styles of Expatriate Monolingual and Local Multilingual Teachers in a Post-colonial Context

Ewa Kobialka

PhD Linguistics (2015) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan

Language Variation, Identity and Social Class: The case of Polish Migrants in Ireland

Niamh Ní Dhomhnaill

MLitt Italian (2015) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Paolo Acquaviva and Feargal Murphy

The non-standard vocabulary of adolescents in a North Dublin suburb.

Owen McCarney

PhD Linguistics (2015) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge

Neoliberalism, Irish Polity, and the problem of the public sphere: A Critical Analysis of Irish Governmental Discourse in the Boom Years (1997-2007)

Niamh Nestor

PhD Linguistics (2015) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan

Young Poles in Ireland: Language and Integration

Turlach O'Broin

PhD German (2015) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Georg Grote

Selling the Dictator: the NSDAP`s Promises to the German Electorate between 1928 and 1932

Valeria Bandecchi

PhD Italian (2014) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Paolo Acquaviva

Lexicalization of the Manner Component: Evidence from Italian

Paola Benchi

PhD Italian (2014) | Supervisor: Prof Ursula Fanning

Conversations with the Maternal: A Study of Feminist Theories and Contemporary Irish and Italian Women`s Narrative

Caitriona Ní Chasaide

PhD French (2014) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan

The Multilingual Lives of Irish Adolescents: Sociolinguistic Variation in L2 Irish and L3 French

José Penón

PhD Spanish (2014) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Philip Johnston

Presencia e influencia de Edgar Allan Poe en Miguel de Unamu no, Antonio Machado y Juan Ramon Jimenez

Gordian Emenyonu

PhD Linguistics (2013) | Supervisor: Prof Jamal Ouhalla

Complex Predicates in Igbo: A Predicate Decomposition Approach

Justina Keenan

PhD German (2013) | Supervisor: Prof Theo Harden

Zur morphologischen Integration englischer Lehnwörter im Deutschen Eine Untersuchung der Sprache des Nachrichtenmagazins Der Spiegel, 1951 - 2001

John Lonergan

PhD Linguistics (2013) | Supervisor: Prof Bettina Migge and Assoc Prof Máire Ní Chiosáin

An Acoustic and Perceptual Study of Dublin English Phonology

Ailish Lynch

PhD Linguistics (2012) | Supervisor: Prof Vera Regan

Identity, gender and the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence: a longitudinal study of Polish women in Ireland

Naoise Bermingham

PhD Italian (2011)

The Literary Works of Temistocle Solera (1816-78)

Nicola Giffney

PhD French (2011) | Supervisor: Dr Phyllis Gaffney

The Problem With Women Who Speak: Language, gender and power in the romances of Chretien de Troyes and Beroul' Tristan

Daphne Seemann

PhD German (2011) | Supervisor: Prof Anne Fuchs

Generation, Gender and Identity in German-Jewish Literature after 1989

Philip Smyth

PhD Spanish (2011) | Supervisor: Dr Annette Flynn

Magical Realism: Proposing a Unifying Mode within the Criticism of Modern Latin American Narrative

Mel Boland

PhD Spanish (2010)

Displacement in Isabel Allende's Fiction (1982-2000)

Selena Daly

PhD Italian (2010) | Supervisor: Prof Deirdre O'Grady

From the Scapigliatura to Futurism: Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918) and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876 - 1944)

Soultana Kosmidou

PhD German (2010) | Supervisor: Prof Anne Fuchs

Conflict, remembering and forgetting: civil wars and memories in post-1989 European cinema

Michael Maerlein

PhD German (2010) | Supervisor: Prof Theo Harden

Beyond Modularisation - The Return of the Private Tutor

Nuria Garcia-Ordiales

PhD Linguistics (2008)

Phase-based Prosodic Cliticisation: A Comparative Study of Asturian

Gearóid Ó Donnchadha

PhD Linguistics (2008) | Supervisor: Prof Jamal Ouhalla

Syntactic structure building and the verbal noun in Modern Irish: a minimalist approach

Michael Harrigan

PhD French (2006) | Supervisor: Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse

Representations of Otherness in the 17th Century Recit de Voyage to the Orient.