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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 Benjamin Andréo :
20th C. literature. Modernism (literature and cinema), especially surrealism. The sacred and religion. Writing the body. Mapping
(literary) space(s). Mythology and Poetry. Sports in literature.
Dr B. Andréo
Dr. Guy Baron :
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
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