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Research Clusters

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Modern Cultural Analysis and Critical Theory

In modern cultural analysis and critical theory, there are substantial clusters (10 or so members) in: Gender Studies, including queer theory, the body and masculinities; Visual Culture, including film studies and photography; Philosophy and Theory (critical theory, deconstruction, Deleuzian studies, affect, postcolonial theory); and smaller clusters in: Space, Place and Urban Studies; Memory and Holocaust studies; Modernism and the Avant Garde; Popular Culture; Psychoanalysis; Philosophy of Science and Technology. There have been joint research and conferences on The City, Visual Culture and Film (including an important cross-departmental colloquium, ‘Transnational Interiors’, which involves reflection on space and place). 

News

Professor Anna Elsner wins European Research Council Starting Grant

9 February 2022

Assistant Professor Anna Magdalena Elsner of French Literature and Culture at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. Professor Anna Elsner is a former MPhil and PhD (2011) student at the University...

Simon Franklin's book, The Russian Graphosphere, awarded prestigious book prize.

19 November 2020

The Slavonic Section are delighted to congratulate Simon Franklin on his newest book, The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), being awarded the prestigious University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies.

Cambridge University article features research of Dr Rebecca Reich

29 April 2019

Fantastic piece showcasing Dr Rebecca Reich's recent publication, 'State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent after Stalin'.

MEITS presented research at the House of Commons

6 December 2018

MEITS was part of a parliamentary event to present the research of the four OWRI projects at the House of Commons on Wednesday 28 November.