Current postgraduate students
Find out about current postgraduate students' research at the School of Languages and Cultures.
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Alexander Davey
Alexander is researching scapegoat rituals in ancient Greece and the way they have been interpreted by scholars past and present.
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Ashleigh McFall
Ashleigh McFall is researching what it means to be fa‘afafine from the perspectives of those who identify this way.
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Chao (George) Guan
Chao's research explores the translation of indigenous/ethnic minority languages and cultural products from Māori and Evenki perspectives.
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Christabel Marshall
Christabel Marshall is exploring Ovid and Intersectionality.
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Courtney McDonald
Courtney McDonald is exploring the translation of the transcultural poet Manfred Winkler, specifically delving into the aspect of gentleness as expression.
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Felicity Bishton
Felicity Bishton is researching the experiential and pedagogical dimensions of videogame translation as multimodal intercultural communication.
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Isaac Bennett-Smith
Isaac is exploring modern stories which have been written in (or translated into) ancient languages, with a focus on ancient Greek.
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Jana Loorparg (née Grohnert)
Jana Loorparg (née Grohnert) does research on L2 literary translation.
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Jason Featherstone-Wright
Jason is investigating the boundary between adaptation and translation through the example of later re-workings of Plautus’ Amphitruo.
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Junrui Lai
Junrui Lai will investigate the role of translation in constructing Chinese queer identities.
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Lynne Bulloch
Lynne Bulloch is exploring the use of genres in the fiction of the Italian writer Melania Mazzucco.
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Marcella Zanetti
Marcella's research explores the linguistic, cultural, scholarly and creative dimensions of literary translation.
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Mariama Diallo
Mariama Diallo is exploring the translative oeuvre of the German-language poet Paul Celan and his work in translation.
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Mariel Lettier
Mariel Lettier is researching the translation of young adult literature from Spanish into English.
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Mauricio López Langenbach
Mauricio López Langenbach is exploring Walter Benjamin's theories of translation and language.
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Paddy Twigg
Paddy Twigg is studying and translating works by Italian writer Italo Calvino.
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Voon Yi Thean
Voon Yi is curating and translating a cross-cultural vocabulary of Sinitic lacunae, inspired by Lin Yutang’s “Critical Vocabulary” (The Importance of Living).
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Wing Hang Eric Yip
Eric Yip is researching on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Chinese government in the late nineteenth century.
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Yiwen Xu
Yiwen Xu is researching gender, identity, and media practice in contemporary China, particularly focusing on gender antagonism on social media.
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Yuki Gabriella Minami
Yuki Gabriella Minami is studying the role of Zainichi and their depiction in images during the Korean War through Japanese and Korean media and literarature.