Current research projects
Schoolwide project
French Studies
- Poetic Knowledge in Late Medieval France
- Post-Colonial Negotiations: Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship in the Post-War Period
- Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy
German Studies
Italian Studies
- Structures of the early vernaculars of Italy (SAVI)
- Venice remembered: identity and the uses of history in Risorgimento and Liberal Italy, 1815-1922
- Existential constructions. An investigation into the Italo-Romance dialects
- Palla Strozzi and vernacular oratory in fifteenth-century Florence
- The Manchester Digital Dante Project
Linguistics and English Language
- The Grammar of Multifunctionality
- Eighteenth-Century English Grammars (ECEG)
- Romani Project
- Germanic possessive -s : an empirical, historical and theoretical study
- Manchester Working Group on Language Contact
- ARCHER (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers)
- Convergence and Linguistics Areas (completed)
- Pennsylvania German (completed)
Middle Eastern Studies
- Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt 1892-2008
- Typology of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature in Antiquity, c. 200 BCE to c. 700 CE (AHRC-funded)
Russian and East European Studies
- Mediating Post-Soviet Difference: An Analysis of Russian Television Representations of Inter-Ethnic Cohesion Issues (AHRC-funded)
- Post-Soviet Russian Television Culture: A Semiotic Analysis
- European Television Representations of Islam as Security Threat: A Comparative Analysis
- Housing as a gendered issue in twentieth-century Russia (AHRC-funded)
- Oriental Studies and Russian national identity (AHRC-funded)
- Centering the Margins: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginality in Russia and Eurasia (funded by the British Academy)
- The Memory of the Second World War in East Central Europe post-1989 (funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Feminisation of Labour
- Alcoranus: the Medieval Latin Qur'an
- In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in comparative literature