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Comparative Literature: Section Editor

Senior Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews

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Comparative Literature: Editorial Board

Florian Mussgnug (BA Oxon, MSt Oxon, PhD Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) is Reader in Italian and Comparative Literature at UCL and founding Director of the UCL Comparative Literature Programme. He has published widely on 20th and 21st Century literature, with a particular focus on literary theory, experimental literature, and narrative prose fiction in Italian, English, and German. Recent books include "The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde" (2010, winner of the 2012 Edinburgh Gadda Prize) and "The Good Place: Comparative Perspectives on Utopia" (2014, with Matthew Reza). He was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Roma Tre (2010-11) and has served on the editorial board of Italian Studies and on the executive committees of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) and the Réseau Européen d'Etudes Littéraires Comparées. He is co-founder of LINKS (London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies) and a member of the executive committee of Hermes: Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies. Mussgnug is also co-investigator for the large AHRC-funded research project, "Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia”.

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Emily Spiers is the holder of a prestigious Anniversary Lectureship at Lancaster University. Her post as Lecturer in Creative Futures is divided between the Institute for Social Futures and the Department of Languages and Cultures. Her current work explores the core role that arts and culture have to play both in imagining and creating better social futures. Beforehand, Emily was Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, a Stipendiary Lecturer in German at Wadham College, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate with the Authors and the World hub at Lancaster University. She holds a D.Phil. and an M.St. in English and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford.

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Henriette Partzsch is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Glasgow. Previously, she has worked at the Universities of Basel, Geneva and St Andrews. Between 2013 and 2016, she led the international HERA-funded Research Project "Travelling Texts, 1790-1914: The Transnational Reception of Women's Writing at the Fringes of Europe (Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain)".

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Film: Section Editor

Lecturer in Hispanic Film

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French & Francophone: Section Editor

Senior Lecturer, Department of French

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French & Francophone: Editorial Board

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Associate Professor of Medieval French at the University of Exeter.

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Patrick Crowley is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork where he teaches French and Francophone Postcolonial literatures. He is the author of Pierre Michon: The Afterlife of Names (2007) and co-editor of Formless: Ways In and Out of Form (2005), Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from Ancient World to Contemporary Society (2011) and Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form (2011). He was General Editor of the Irish Journal of French Studies from 2011 to 2014 and is currently its Deputy Editor.

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Associate Professor of French, University of Pennsylvania

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Professor of French Literature and Film

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German Studies: Section Editors

Reader in German

Head of Department of German

Department of German

King's College London

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German Studies: Editorial Board

Senior Lecturer in German

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After completing my BA and PhD in German Studies at Swansea University, I worked as a Lektor in the English Department of the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz before my appointment to a lectureship in German at the University of Wales Bangor in 1995. I returned to Swansea in January 2005 to teach in Media and German, with particular emphasis on Film Studies, before moving to the Media Department at Edge Hill University in February 2011, initially as a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television. I was promoted to a Chair in Film in May 2012.

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Daniel Purdy is Professor of German.  He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992. Before arriving at Penn State University, he taught for nine years at Columbia University. He is currently writing a book on the “European city” as a contemporary response to globalization.  The discourse around the European city deploys architecture and urban planning to isolate Europe from immigration while maintaining world-wide economic networks.  In 1998, he published a study on fashion culture and male identity, The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe, with Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2005 the University of Minnesota Press published his collection of historical writings about style, The Rise of Fashion. His latest book, On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought, appeared in July 2011 with Cornell University Press.


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Hispanic Studies: Section Editors

I am the Hispanic Studies section editor. I am a Latin Americanist with a particular focus on Mexican film and literature. My key research interest is in the multiple representations of conflict in literature and film. This begins with the Mexican Revolution, right through to the 1968 student movement, Zapatismo, and, most recently, Narcoviolence. I’ve also written about queer representations and digital cultures (including blogging and web 2.0, such as the use of social networking sites, YouTube etc by authors and online creators). This has led me to consider the boundaries between amateur and professional creativity and (sometimes self-) curation online. You can see more in my publication and presentation sections of my website: http://www.niamhthornton.net/.

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Hispanic Studies: Editorial Board

Senior Academic and Head of School of Film & Media, University of Lincoln

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Christine Henseler is Professor of Spanish & Hispanic Studies at Union College. NY. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism / Advertising, a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters degree in Spanish Literature and Culture from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. She is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and of the Arts & Humanities Division at Union College. She has worked as Associate Director of Academic Programs and as Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Union College. She is actively engaged in the advocacy of the Humanities and the Liberal Arts through organizations such as 4Humanities, online projects such as The Arts & Humanities in the 21st Century Workplace: Why Leaders Are Joining the Dialogue, campus-wide initiatives such as Union College's Mellon grant "Our Shared Humanities," and courses such as "The Humanities Super Seminar" and "The Liberal Arts Scholars Colloquium."

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Reader in Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick

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University Senior Lecturer, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

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Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature and Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Queen's University, Belfast

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Italian: Section Editor

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Italian: Editorial Board

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Professor of Italian Literature, Oxford University

Fellow and Tutor in Italian, Somerville College, Oxford

Associate Director, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

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Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Itaiian

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Senior Lecturer in Italian, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow

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Dr Laura Rorato
Senior Lecturer in Italian
Shool of Languages Linguistics and Cultures
Universiy of Hull



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Professor in Italian, School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester

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Linguistics: Section Editor

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Linguistics: Editorial Board

Dr Michelle Harrison is a Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Leicester, where she lectures on French Sociolinguistics. She has published on regional language-in-education policy and the evolution of language beliefs in Alsace. She is the co-editor of the volume 'French Language Policies and the Revitalisation of Regional Languages in the 21st Century' (2019).

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Following completion of his PhD (on Romance complementation) at the University of Manchester in 1996 and a Research Fellowship at Downing College (1996-97), Adam Ledgeway became Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge. Since 2013, he has been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics and, since 2015, the Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Adam Ledgeway's research interests include the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Italian dialectology, Latin, Italo-Greek, syntactic theory, and linguistic change. His research is channelled towards bringing together traditional Romance philological scholarship with the insights of recent generative syntactic theory, and he has worked and published extensively on such topics as complementation, complementizer systems, auxiliary selection and split intransitivity, word order, configurationality, alignments, argument structure and argument marking, cliticization, (non-)configurationality, clause structure, functional categories, verb movement, adjectival positions, agreement, negation, subjects, causatives, voice distinctions, finiteness, imperatives, the development of demonstrative and deictic systems, grammaticalisation, parameters, and language contact.

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Portuguese & Lusophone: Section Editor

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Portuguese & Lusophone: Editorial Board

Professor of Portuguese Studies,

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

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Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies

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Russian & Eastern European Languages: Section Editor

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Professor of Russian Literature and Music , Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Wadham Wadham College, Oxford

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Russian & Eastern European Languages: Editorial Board

Senior Lecturer in European Thought and Culture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies

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Professor of Russian Literature and Music , Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Wadham Wadham College, Oxford

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Project Manager, Blue Mountain Project

Princeton University Library

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Associate Professor Serbian and Croatian Studies, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham

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