Doctoral researchers in Modern Languages

The Department of Modern Languages has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below.

Ali Abdullah

Ali Abdullah

Doctoral researcher Distance Learning

PhD Title:  Historicizing Global Hispanophone Fiction: Hispanidad and Representations of Otherness in Colonial Equatorial Guinea
SupervisorsDr Berny Sèbe and Dr Monica Jato
PhD Comparative Literature

Ali Muhammad Al Shangity

Ali Muhammad Al Shangity

Doctoral researcher

PhD Title: A linguistic analysis of humour theories in satirical political articles written by two famous Arab female authors
Supervisor: Dr Anissa Daoudi 
PhD Italian Studies

Ali Alqahtani

Ali Alqahtani

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Assessing the Relevance of Saudi Undergraduates’ Translation Competence to the Requirements of the Saudi Translation Market
Supervisor: Professor Emma Tyler and Dr Anna Milsom
PhD Translation Studies

Abdulhady Alroiei

Abdulhady Alroiei

Doctoral researcher

PhD Title: Translating Salhi's 'Occidentalism' from English into Arabic Followed by Translation Commentary
Supervisors: Dr Anissa Daoudi and Dr Paola Cori
Translation Studies Practice-Based PhD

Bethlehem Attfield

Bethlehem Attfield

Doctoral researcher Distance Learning

PhD title: Indigenous African Literature: Translating Amharic Fiction
Supervisors: Dr Louise Hardwick
PhD Translation Studies Practice-Based

Ella Elhoudiri

Ella Elhoudiri

Doctoral researcher

PhD Title: Unusual places and exceptional people: women, minorities and the Self in the travel accounts of non-colonial observers in Libya during the colonial period 1911-1951
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sebe and Dr Anissa Daoudi

Valeria Eleonora Floris

Valeria Eleonora Floris

Doctoral researcher

PhD Title: Analyzing Gender and Sexuality in Slash Fanfictions: A Comparative Study between Italian and Anglophone Literature
Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Ross and Dr Elliot Evans
PhD Italian Studies

Benjamin Griffiths

Benjamin Griffiths

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: In the afterglow of the Novelas ejemplares: censorship, exemplarity, canonicity and 'Golden Age' in 17th and 18th-century Spanish exemplary short fiction.
SupervisorsDr Jules Whicker and Professor Aengus Ward
Hispanic Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)

 

Diane M. Michael

Diane M. Michael

Doctoral researcher

Phd title: “Concrétisations cinématographiques de l’identité française : Défenses symptomatiques”/“Cinematic Concretisations of French Identity: Symptomatic Defences”
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Watts and Dr Kate Ince
PhD Modern Languages

Ivete Houer Milton

Doctoral researcher

PhD Title: Teaching and learning the subjunctive in Portuguese as a second language
Supervisors: Dr Patricia Odber de Baubeta and Professor John Klapper
PhD Hispanic Studies

Xinbei Wang

Xinbei Wang

Doctoral Researcher

PhD title: Architecture, Quasi-Colonialism and Politics: A Micro-History of the British Consulate in Wen-Chow
SupervisorsDr Berny Sèbe and Dr Helle Jorgensen
French Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)