Research projects
Research Projects
Research in the Department of Languages Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool contributes to national and international debates about how Modern Languages defines itself, but also – and in this we are pioneering – we envisage Modern Languages approaches as shaping the research agendas of a whole range of other disciplines, how we can influence these disciplines and their ways of working, and how we can, as a result, champion challenge-based and linguistically-sensitive approaches to research from a Modern Languages perspective.
We conceive of Modern Languages as translational in that we see our role as translating between disciplines, between societal boundaries, and between the academy and practice. This is reflected in the different research projects that colleagues of the Department are engaged in, as listed below.
Beyond Borders: Transnational Italy
Dr Barbara Spadaro (Italian Studies)
Professor Eve Rosenhaft (German Studies)
Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows
Dr Niamh Thornton (Iberian and Latin American Studies and Film Studies)
Mediating Spanish Women: Popular Culture and Feminist Visibilities
Dr Abigail Loxham (Film Studies)
Memory, Victims and Representation of the Colombian Conflict
Professor Claire Taylor (Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Dr Nicola Bermingham (Hispanic Studies)
Specular Ghosts: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual Culture
Dr Niamh Thornton (Iberian and Latin American Studies and Film Studies)
Cultural Heritage Promoting Quality of Life in the At-Risk Megacity Periphery of Kolkata
Dr Ian Magedera (French Studies)
Translating Cultures: leading a national Arts & Humanities research theme
Professor Charles Forsdick (French Studies)
Writing the City: Berlin literature anthologies
Dr Lyn Marven (German Studies)
Professor Robert Blackwood (French Sociolinguistics)