Leila Goulahsen
email: Leila.Goulahsen@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: 'Women as threat in French and English drama of the 16th century'
Supervisors: Professor Adrian Armstrong, Professor J.Tambling
Research specialism
- Renaissance drama, comparative literature,
- The drama and the social construction of gender, controversies over race, empire, and national identity in the Renaissance.
- Female dramatists of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Representation of the 'other' in literature and painting in the 16th and 17th centuries in England and France.
- Correspondence in arts.
- Early Colonialism: vision and representation of the exotic other.
- The 'monstrous' in literature.
Teaching Areas
- Undergraduate level: French oral
- Postgraduate level : Academic Reading in French
Professional biography
Postgraduate Degree in English Literature, Arts, Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Dissertation: 'Fair' and 'foul' in Shakespeare's Sonnets. First class Honours, June 2005, under the supervision of Mr François Laroque
MA in English literature. Reading University.
Dissertation : Gender in Shakespeare and Middleton. First class Honours, June 2004.