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Comparative Literature: Section Editor

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Comparative Literature: Editorial Board

Sarah Arens is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2023) and Lecturer in French (2023--) at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on the histories, (scientific and fictional) texts, and visual cultures produced during and in the aftermath of Belgian and French colonialism. She also has a strong research interest in Environmental Humanities (especially Critical Animal Studies) and ideas of Francophone African writing as 'world literature'. Sarah's research and my biography overlap at certain points: she is a first-generation academic and university graduate and grew up in Germany and in Algeria, her father's native country (unfortunately without picking up much Arabic). Sarah speaks French, German, and English and has started learning Russian and Yiddish.

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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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Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. Intellectual and literary historian of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

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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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Nicola Thomas is Lecturer in German at Lancaster University, and has previously worked at the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on issues of space, place and environment in contemporary poetry.

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Digital Modern Languages: Section Editors

Paul Spence currently focuses on digital publishing, global perspectives on digital scholarship and interactions between modern languages and digital culture. Through his work on the Language Acts and World-making project (https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/, he has recently focused in particular on interactions between languages, multilingualism, linguistic diversity and digital practice. He researches digital transformations in how we engage with languages, while also analysing the power of language to disrupt digital monolingualism in knowledge infrastructures, methods and data. Together with Naomi Wells, Paul co-convenes the 'Digital Modern Languages' section on Modern Languages Open and the 'Digital Modern Languages' seminar, a physical and virtual seminar and blog series launched in May 2019 to "to bring together and raise the visibility of Modern Languages research which engages with digital culture, media and technologies" https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Dr Naomi Wells is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Translingual Communities and Digital Humanities at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London) on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ (part of the Open World Research Initiative). Her current research focuses on London’s Latin American communities, and digital practices of communication and representation. She was previously a Research Fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages’ project, where her work and recent publications focus on the linguistic and cultural practices of contemporary and historic migrant communities to and from Italy.

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Digital Modern Languages: Editorial Board

Caroline Ardrey is lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, where she specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and its interaction with other art forms, including music, fashion and the visual arts. Caroline's research primarily applies digital methodologies to the study of nineteenth-century literature. Her recent publications have been in the field of digital sound studies, developing and implementing approaches to analysing sung and spoken performances of poetry.

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Independent Consultant

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Dr. Mirjam Hauck is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University/UK and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the use of technologies for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures, in virtual exchange contexts in particular. Her work covers aspects such as learner and teacher autonomy, intercultural communicative competence and critical digital literacies. She presents regularly at conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. She is the President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is a member of the editorial board of ReCALL. She is also a trainer and co-investigator in the EU-funded EVOLVE and ERASMUS PLUS Virtual Exchange projects which link teachers and learners from Higher Education Institutions round the world in virtual exchange initiatives.

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Film: Section Editor

Lecturer in Hispanic Film

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Film: Editorial Board

Jenny Chamarette is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Author of Phenomenology and the Future of Film (2012), she has published widely on phenomenology, embodiment, gender, affect, disability and the cultural politics of the moving image in installation, multi-channel and theatrical formats by filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Suleiman and Shirin Neshat. She is currently Co-Investigator on the interdisciplinary AHRC-funded Dwoskin Project (2018-2021) working on the digital archive, disability activism and cultural legacy of the artist-filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin.

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I am a professor of film at Edge Hill, but my degrees are in German and I have published widely on German literature and film, as well as on European cinema more generally. I have particular interests in German history and culture since 1945, representations of history on screen, autobiography and have recently undertaken work on arts, health and wellbeing. I am the co-founding editor of Studies in European Cinema and co-founding director of the European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF).

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Jara Fernández-Meneses earned her Ph.D from the University of Kent (UK). Her research focuses on Spanish and European film and cultural policies. She has published in the peer-reviewed journals Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine, Film Studies, Studies in European Cinemas, New Cinemas. Journal of Contemporary Film and Hispanic Research Journal, as well as several chapters in edited books for the San Sebastian International Film Festival, Las Palmas International Film Festival, Seminci.Valladolid International Film Festival and Nosferatu. She is currently working as film programmer at Cineteca (Madrid), as a contributor to the specialised film magazine Caimán. Cuadernos de Cine and as a associated professor at the University Carlos III in Madrid.

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Laura Hubner is Professor of Film at the University of Winchester. She holds a PhD in Film, following a BA in English and MA in Literature and the Visual Arts. She is author of The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness and Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film, editor of Valuing Films and co-editor of Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts and The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture. Her next monograph on Bergman launches the book series she is editing on Iconic Film Images. She also has research interests in aesthetics, fandom, gender, language, music, ‘quality’ and stardom.

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French & Francophone: Section Editors

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Professor of French Studies and the Visual Arts, Department of French

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French & Francophone: Editorial Board

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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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I am a professor of film at Edge Hill, but my degrees are in German and I have published widely on German literature and film, as well as on European cinema more generally. I have particular interests in German history and culture since 1945, representations of history on screen, autobiography and have recently undertaken work on arts, health and wellbeing. I am the co-founding editor of Studies in European Cinema and co-founding director of the European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF).

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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

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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