• Medical Humanities • Medieval and Early Modern literature (including Marie de France, the Fabliaux, Rabelais) • Memory Studies / Conflict Studies, e.g. Occupied France, le Shoah, the Algerian War • Travel Writing and Transnational Studies • Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Drama • Women’s Writing and Gender Theory (e.g. de Beauvoir, Duras, Darrieussecq) GERMAN Much of our activity in German is concentrated in the Centre for Contemporary German Culture which has produced more than a dozen PhDs since its foundation in 1993. Recent and current topics are: ‘Affective Affinities: Memory, Empathy and the Weight of History in the Work of Herta Müller’; ‘Intercultural Encounters in the Writings of Michael Roes’ (now published in the Bithell Series of Dissertations); ‘Ambiguous Heroes: Re-visioning the Holocaust and Nazism in Hollywood and German Cinema since 1990’; and ‘An Aesthetic for its Time ? Currency and Anachronism in Heinrich Böll’s “Ästhetik des Humanen”’. Our students have received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Pantyfedwen Trust and the College of Arts and Humanities. The Centre’s focal points include: • Baader Meinhof and the Novel • The Films of Andreas Dresen • German Writing from Eastern and Central Europe • Turkish-German and German- Jewish Writing • Women’s Writing
• Spanish-American Nation Building • Twentieth-century Argentine Literature and Culture • Twentieth-century Colombian Literature and Culture • Twentieth-century Cuban Literature and Culture • Twentieth-century Prose and Poetry • Welsh Patagonia • Wilderness and Eco-Literature • Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory • Twentieth-century Uruguayan Literature Current and recent PhD topics: ‘Welsh Travellers to Latin America’; ‘Rosas and Perón in the Contemporary Argentine Novel’; and 'Insularity, translation and genre, the case of two Caribbean supervision is also available through the medium of Welsh. Our students have received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Maney Fund, the Pantyfedwen Trust and SUSPRS, the Swansea University Strategic Partner Research Excellence Scholarships. Translation and Interpreting writers, Hazel Robinson and Edwidge Danticat.' Research Staff research interests in Translation and Interpreting cover a range of themes, including: • Audiovisual Translation • Comparative Translation Studies • Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) • Computer-based Lexicography and Terminography • Corpus-based Translation Analysis • History of Translation • Literary Translation • Theatre Translation/Adaptation • Translation and the Lexicon • Translation and Social Discourse • Translation Processes: Psycholinguistics of Translation, Translation Workflows • Translation Theory (Including Non-Western) • Translation Tools and Technologies • Translation Visualisation
Other staff specialisms include: • Ballads and popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day • Nineteenth-century realism, particularly Stifter and Fontane HISPANIC – GENERAL • Comparative literature; Cultural Semiotics. • Hispanic and Lusophone 20th and 21st century cultures and literatures.
SPANISH – SPAIN Spanish Language:
• Learning Spanish Bilingually or as a Second/Heritage Language • Narrativity and Semiotics of the Spanish Crisis
• Spanish-Latin America • Spanish Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
Current literary topics include: ‘Female Role-Play in Drama’ and ‘English Translations of Don Quixote’. SPANISH – LATIN AMERICA Research in this area is conducted through the Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal, Spain and the Americas (CEPSAM) in collaboration with staff and research students in American Studies. The Centre is the leading research organisation in its field in Wales. It has recently obtained a Regional Seminar Series Grant from the Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London) which has brought together Wales- based Latin Americanists to work on a project entitled ‘Memory, Place and Space in Latin America’. CEPSAM members also participated in the Green Humanities Conference 2019, and are currently venturing into multidisciplinary ecocriticism and related-areas. Areas of special interest include: • Afro-Latin American Studies • Contemporary Spanish- American Film
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