French

We offer expert supervision in the following research areas of French studies:

• Contemporary women's writing (Dr Henry-Tierney; Prof Jordan; Dr Robson)
• Linguistics (Dr Hall) and in particular French syntax (Prof Mackenzie)
• Sociolinguistics, language variation, language change (Dr Hall)
• French and Algerian cinema (Prof Austin, Dr Leahy)
• 19th to 21st century French and Francophone literature (Prof Harkness, Prof Jordan, Dr El Maizi)
• Gender studies (Prof Harkness, Dr Henry-Tierney; Prof Jordan; Dr Robson)
• Cultural Gerontology/Ageing Studies (Prof Jordan)
• Postcolonial cultures (Prof Austin, Dr El Maizi)
• Translation (Dr Henry-Tierney)
• Trauma and culture (Prof Austin, Dr Robson)
• Visual culture (Prof Jordan, Dr Jein)
• Urban Humanities: French urban cultures of the modern and contemporary period (Dr Jein)
• 19th and early 20th-century French labour history, especially the role of women (Dr Salin)
• Language learning and teaching in higher education (Dr Salin).

Find out more about our research staff

You'll benefit from the School's strong links with interdisciplinary research centres and groups, including:

• Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences
• Research Centre in Film and Digital Media
• Gender Research Group
• Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Postcolonial Research Group.