Staff Research
David Adams
Professor of French Enlightenment Studies
Areas of expertise: French Enlightenment thought, illustrated books to 1800, material bibliography
Daron Burrows
Lecturer in French
Areas of Expertise: Old French literature (especially comic narrative), early medieval French culture and society, text editing
Peter Cooke
Senior Lecturer in French
Areas of Expertise: 19th-Century French painting and literature, Gustave Moreau, poetry, post-Romanticism
Barbara Lebrun
Lecturer in French
Areas of expertise: Contemporary French popular music; gender representations, performance and visual displays in musical contexts; multiculturalism, nostalgia and 'protest' in popular music
Joseph McGongagle
Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the French-speaking World
Areas of expertise: Ethnicity in French and francophone visual culture, French photography and film, cultural relations between France and Algeria
Floriane Place-Verghnes
Lecturer in French
Areas of expertise: Popular literature and culture, 19th-century French literature and culture, literary theory, media studies (film and cartoon)
Dee Reynolds
Professor of French
Areas of expertise: Modern and contemporary dance, comparative aesthetics, poststructuralist and feminist theory
Darren Waldron
Lecturer in French Screen Studies
Areas of expertise: Contemporary French cinema and popular culture, queer theory, qualitative audience study