Research in French
Details about the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAPH2) competition, offering up to 90 AHRC-funded studentships can be found here
https://www.lahp.ac.uk/apply-for-a-studentship/
Details about the QMUL Principal's Postgraduate Research Studentships are here
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/applying-for-a-phd
The research staff and their areas of expertise:
- Late medieval literature (French and Dutch); book history; reception studies; translation studies; visual culture; scholarly editing; Belgian culture; literary theory
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Cultural transfers, circulations of people, objects and thoughts; art and translation, art in translation; transnational history of art museums and collections, with a focus on the interactions between France, Germany and Britain; women in art history: translators, mediators, scholars and curators; history of the Modern Movement in art, architecture and design
- Francophone postcolonial studies; translation and multilingualism; transcultural memory studies; North African literature in French; Jewish-Muslim interactions; Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Socio-political contextualization of modern French literature
- Francophone writing
- Life writing
- Colonial and postcolonial writing by women
- OuLiPo
- Text-image relations
- The work of contemporary women artists
- Medieval and early modern visual culture
- Feminist theory and criticism
- Narratology
- Postcolonial perspectives
- Modern Francophone writing
- Pre-modern vernacular translation and cross-cultural transmission
- Late medieval poetry and poetics
- Relations between French-language and Dutch-language writing in Burgundy
- Vernacular translation and cross-cultural transmission
- Approaches to scholarly editing
- Manuscript studies and book history
- Language and national identity in France, Quebec and Sweden
- Language policy and planning
- Language attitudes
- Regional languages in France
- Variation in French
- Language in the European Union
- Languages and globalisation
Recent major research grants in French
Oulipography: life as a creative constraint
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship awarded to Anna Kemp for 2017-2018 (£47,521)
The 1429 Catalan Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s `Decameron’: Tracing the Making of a European Classic
European Commission, Marie Curie Actions - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) scheme, awarded to Adrian Armstrong (scientist in charge) and Simone Ventura (researcher), September 2013 - August 2015 (€221,606)
Albert Camus: a Controversial life, a Contested Legacy
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship awarded to Edward Hughes for 2013-2014 (£44,547)
Visual Culture and 'Interruption' in Global Cities
AHRC-NWO Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme Research Grant awarded to Shirley Jordan, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, September 2012-August 2014 (€37,734)
Transcultural Critical Editing: Vernacular Poetry in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1450-1530
AHRC Research Grant awarded to Adrian Armstrong, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, January 2012-July 2016 (£227,036)