Find a research supervisor in German studies

Staff in the Department of Modern Languages who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of German studies.

Dr Hilary Brown

Dr Hilary Brown

Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies

  • Cultural history of C17 and C18 Europe
  • Anglo-German cultural relations
  • History of translation
  • Literary translation
  • Gender and translation
  • Women intellectuals pre-1900, particularly women translators

Dr Elystan Griffiths

Dr Elystan Griffiths

Reader in Modern Languages

  • German literature, history and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • Pastoral and utopian writing
  • German-language cinema, all periods

Professor Sara Jones

Professor Sara Jones

Professor of Languages, Cultures and Societies

  • Memory studies
  • Post-socialism
  • Germany
  • Cultural history
  • East German State Security Service (Stasi)
  • Transitional justice.

Dr Katharina Karcher

Dr Katharina Karcher

Associate Professor in German

  • Political violence and terrorism
  • Gender and conflict
  • Feminist protest and European women’s movements
  • Feminist Theory
  • 1968 and its legacy
  • Political extremism
  • Contemporary German culture and politics

Dr Nicholas Martin

Dr Nicholas Martin

Reader (Associate Professor) in German

Modern German intellectual history and/or the cultural history of war and political violence in twentieth-century Germany.

Dr Ruth Whittle

Dr Ruth Whittle

Associate Professor
HeFI Fellow

  • Narratives of (personal, gendered, professional, national)
  • Pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning
  • The role of mindset and reflection in deep learning.

Modern languages staff research supervision areas