Current postgraduate students
Find out about current postgraduate students' research at the School of Languages and Cultures.
Ashleigh McFall
Ashleigh McFall is researching what it means to be fa‘afafine from the perspectives of those who identify this way.
Chao (George) Guan
Chao's research explores the translation of indigenous/ethnic minority languages and cultural products from Māori and Evenki perspectives.
Christabel Marshall
Christabel Marshall is exploring Ovid and Intersectionality.
Courtney McDonald
Courtney McDonald is exploring the translation of the transcultural poet Manfred Winkler, specifically delving into the aspect of gentleness as expression.
Felicity Bishton
Felicity Bishton is researching the experiential and pedagogical dimensions of videogame translation as multimodal intercultural communication.
Isaac Bennett-Smith
Isaac is exploring modern stories which have been written in (or translated into) ancient languages, with a focus on ancient Greek.
Jana Loorparg (née Grohnert)
Jana Loorparg (née Grohnert) does research on L2 literary translation.
Jason Featherstone-Wright
Jason is investigating the boundary between adaptation and translation through the example of later re-workings of Plautus’ Amphitruo.
Junrui Lai
Junrui Lai will investigate the role of translation in constructing Chinese queer identities.
Lynne Bulloch
Lynne Bulloch is exploring the use of genres in the fiction of the Italian writer Melania Mazzucco.
Marcella Zanetti
Marcella's research explores the linguistic and cultural intersections between primary and secondary texts and between creativity and scholarship.
Mariama Diallo
Mariama Diallo is exploring the translative oeuvre of the German-language poet Paul Celan and his work in translation.
Mariel Lettier
Mariel Lettier is researching the translation of young adult literature from Spanish into English.
Mauricio López Langenbach
Mauricio López Langenbach is exploring Walter Benjamin's theories of translation and language.
Paddy Twigg
Paddy Twigg is studying and translating works by Italian writer Italo Calvino.
Roger Smith
Roger Smith is researching German poetry of the First World War, specifically Julius Bab’s anthology of First World War German poetry.
Wing Hang Eric Yip
Eric Yip is researching on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Chinese government in the late nineteenth century.
Yiwen Xu
Yiwen Xu is researching gender, identity, and media practice in contemporary China, particularly focusing on gender antagonism on social media.
Yuki Gabriella Minami
Yuki Gabriella Minami is studying the role of Zainichi and their depiction in images during the Korean War through Japanese and Korean media and literarature.