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The Department of Modern Languages at Exeter is a centre of excellence for teaching and research across a broad and diverse range of interests within the discipline. We are a dynamic and friendly team who offer intellectually challenging and wide-ranging teaching, and a flourishing research culture.
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Here are a few of our academics involved in research within the department;
Our current PGRs
We're proud of the research carried out by our PhD students. There are currently around 15 PhD students in the Department, many of whom maintain an online personal profile detailing their research activities. Follow the links below to find out more about them and their research projects.
Student | Research title | First supervisor | Second supervisor |
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Giada Alessandroni | Female Friendship and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century French Literature | Dr Maria Scott | Dr Fiona Cox |
Maria Anesti | Oriental Arcadia: The entangled histories of living with nature, China and Europe | Dr Yue Zhuang | |
Sandra Daroczi | Reception of contemporary Francophone women writers | Dr Fiona Cox | Dr Maria Scott |
Laura Dragomir | Die Neue Frau im sozialen Milieu: Literarische Darstellungen erotischer Emanzipationsansprueche von der Jahrhundertwende zur Weimarer Republik. | Professor Ricarda Schmidt | Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger |
Sarah Foxen | Historical and contemporary perspectives on Belgium and the Franco-Belgian border. | Dr Zoë Boughton | Professor Aidan Coveney |
Russell Sanchez | The Nature of Trade: Idelogical Dispositions Towards Nature, and their Impact on Dutch Chinese Trade in the Late 18th Century | Dr Yue Zhuang | Professor Emma Cayley |
Maria Selezneva | The role of the translator in creating cultural identity (an examination of English and Russian texts for tourists in Australia, China, Finland and regions of the Russian Federation) | Dr Richard Mansell | Dr Muireann Maguire |