European Languages MPhil

Research interests include: French: Historical linguistics; early modern literature and ideas; modern literature; cinema; Anglo-Norman; historical linguistics; romance linguistics. German: Sociolinguistics, especially language attitudes, relationship between standard and non-standard varieties, language awareness, language in education, 20th-century literature and ideas. Spanish: Stylistic comparison of 19th-century Spanish novels, North African comparative colonial literature; cosmopolitanism, geoplotics, landscape, science in Latin American literature and film.