Research in French
- Socio-political contextualization of modern French literature
- Francophone writing
- Life writing
- Colonial and postcolonial writing by women
- OuLiPo
- Text-image relations
- The work of contemporary women artists
- Medieval and early modern visual culture
- Feminist theory and criticism
- Narratology
- Postcolonial perspectives
- Modern Francophone writing
- Pre-modern vernacular translation and cross-cultural transmission
- Late medieval poetry and poetics
- Relations between French-language and Dutch-language writing in Burgundy
- Vernacular translation and cross-cultural transmission
- Approaches to scholarly editing
- Manuscript studies and book history
- Language and national identity in France, Quebec and Sweden
- Language policy and planning
- Language attitudes
- Regional languages in France
- Variation in French
- Language in the European Union
- Languages and globalisation
The research staff and their areas of expertise:
- Late medieval literature (French and Dutch); book history; reception studies; translation studies; visual culture; scholarly editing; Belgian culture; literary theory
- Language attitudes, language ideologies and nationalism/national identity; language policy and planning (LPP), and normative approaches to LPP as developed in political philosophy/political theory
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Cultural transfers, circulations of people, objects and thoughts; art and translation, art in translation; transnational history of art museums and collections, with a focus on the interactions between France, Germany and Britain; women in art history: translators, mediators, scholars and curators; history of the Modern Movement in art, architecture and design
- Francophone postcolonial studies; translation and multilingualism; transcultural memory studies; North African literature in French; Jewish-Muslim interactions; Israeli-Palestinian conflict