Staff
Here are the staff who work in Theatre Studies.
| Name | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Martine Beugnet | Contemporary French cinema; film aesthetics and film philosophy; cinema and postcolonialism; and cinema and counter-culture. |
| Dr Laura Bradley | 20th-century German theatre and cultural politics, particularly in the Weimar Republic and the GDR. |
| Dr Peter Davies | 20th-century German literature and history, with emphasis on the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the GDR; modernism and antimodernism in Weimar Germany; writers and communism; Bachofen and the theory of ancient matriarchy. |
| Dr Véronique Desnain | 17th-century French theatre, and in particular on the representation of gender on the stage. |
| Professor Jean Duffy | The nouveau roman; word and image; contemporary French fiction (Jean Rouaud, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier); literature and ritual. |
| Dr Peter Graves | Scandinavian literature; translation studies. |
| Dr Huw Lewis | Medieval literature (particularly exempla, the ballad, early romance, and Christian vision); folk literature; 20th-century Spanish theatre. |
| Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones | Greek and Persian political and socio-cultural history, gender history, reception studies and popular culture. |
| Dr James Loxley | English Renaissance Theatre and theories of performance and performativity. |
| Professor Federica Pedriali | Literary theory, narratology, theatre studies, translation theory, digital philology, electronic publishing, most 19th / 20th century Italian literature. |
| Professor Jeremy Robbins | Early modern Spanish culture, with a particular interest in the history of ideas, the visual arts, and drama in Spain and the New World during this period. |
| Dr Alexandra Smith | Russian and European 19th-, 20th-, and 21st- century literature and culture (poetry, novel, performance); literary and film theory; critical theory; Russian modernist and postmodernist film, theatre and literature; 20th-century Russian emigre culture in France, UK and USA (especially Tsvetaeva, Nabokov, Brodsky); history of ideas. |
| Dr Olga Taxidou | Modernism and performance; gender and performance; theories of tragedy; adaptations of classics. |
| Dr Stephanie Winder | Greek Poetry (Ancient to Modern), and Literary Theory. |
This article was published on Sep 8, 2011