Research Supervisors and Their Fields

MPhil and PhD Supervision of research projects is always available on a wide range of topics (see the Department's fields of research listed below). Candidates are often required to spend part of their research period working in suitable foreign libraries and/or archives, while remaining under supervision from Aberystwyth.

For MPhil and PhD research our lecturers offer expert supervision in the following areas:

Dr. Guy Baron :
All aspects of Cuban studies, particularly related to culture/visual culture. Latin American film.
Dr G. Baron

Dr Winifred Davies :
Most aspects of German sociolinguistics, especially linguistic variation in German and attitudes toward it; language awareness amongst educators; processes of standardisation in German (cf. AHRB project); ideologies of language.
Dr W. Davies

Dr Andrea Hammel :
The modern German Novel; Women’s Writing; the history and culture of German-speaking refugees to Britain, especially the period of 1933-1950 and the Kindertransport; German-Jewish history and literature; Exile literature; Holocaust Writing and Translation; Autobiography.
Dr A. Hammel

Dr José Manuel Goñi Pérez :
Late 19th Century Spanish Novel; Stylistics; Literary representations of North Africa Protectorate (1859-1956 & 2000-2010). Dr J. Goñi Pérez@aber.ac.uk

Dr Bruno Sibona :
French poetry 16th, 17th, 19th and 20th century; Comparative Literature; Victor Hugo; Eugène Savitzkaya; Literature and Animality; Literature and Anthropology. Dr B. Sibona

Professor David Trotter :
Historical French linguistics; medieval French (especially non-literary texts); historical dialectology, especially eastern French; Anglo-Norman, especially linguistic aspects.
Prof D. Trotter