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Current PhD Students in French

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Name College Research Topic Supervisor
Tobias Barnett ¸é´Ç²ú¾±²Ô²õ´Ç²ÔÌý Republican Metabolisms: Empire, State and Milieu inÌýModern FrenchÌýThought Prof Martin Crowley
Duarte Benard da Costa Peterhouse Marcel Proust and Intertextuality Prof Ian James
Ian Boyd Queens' College The World Under Our Feet: Habitat and Movement in the Imagined Underground Dr Jenny Mander
Kathryn Bryan Lucy Cavendish 'l'anormale par excellence': Bad Mothers from nineteenth-century French fiction
Samuel Buchoul Hughes Hall Techniques of writing, techniques of living: towards existential grammatology, with and after Derrida Prof Ian James
Rebecca Courtier Churchill

"Marginalities and Migrants on the Move: A Comparative Reading of Medieval French Literature and Contemporary French Culture

Prof Sylvia Huot
Celia Depommier-Cotton Newnham
Stendhal and Individuality
Eli Dolliver St John's College Cautionary Tales and Consolatory Fables - Folklore and the Horror Film Dr Georgina Evans
David Ewing Clare Everyday life and the postwar French novel
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The aesthetics of movement in the space of art [20th - 21st c.]

°ä²¹°ù±ôÌý¹ó°ù²¹²â²Ô±ð St John's The Exiled French Regular Clergy in Great Britain (1881 - 1921)
Carrie Heusinkveld St John's 'C'est peu de violer l'amitié, la nature': Social and Environmental Destruction in Racine's Theatre
Eve Judah Newnham ‘La Philosophie en effet: 50 years of Philosophy, Politics and Publishing’
Kate Kent St John's The translated dramatic works of Samuel Beckett and Marguerite Duras 1960-1969
Lilian Kroth Trinity Hall Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Social Theory
Mathias Le Gargasson Clare Hall ÌýValéry's Cahiers, Bataille and Laruelle : heresies of the impossible
Ellamae Lepper St Catharine's Salons in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Isabel Maloney Clare ‘Pêcher par omission’: Censorship, Gender, and Narrative Logic in the Late Nineteenth Century French Novel
Solange Manche King's The Brain, Technics, and Desire: The Resurgence of a Critique of Political Economy in Contemporary French Thought

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King's Representations of trans* identities in contemporary French cinema ProfÌýEmma Wilson
Weibing Ni Selwyn College The Rhetoric of Creole Identity, Community Belonging and Racialisation: Haitian Neighbours and Oriental Others in Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Novels Prof Martin Crowley
Anna-Lisa Nicholson Corpus Christi Reconstructing the Mazarin Salon: French Exilic Communities in Early Modern London
Ellie O'Shea St Catherine's Archival Imaginings in Medieval Arthurian Romance Dr Miranda Griffin
Lili Owen Rowlands Murray Edwards Genre Trouble: ‘Autotheory’ and the Queer/Gendered Self in Contemporary French LifeWriting
Marina Perkins Jesus Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne’s Essais
Andrew Sackin-Poll Trinity Hall The Ordinary Epic: Rethinking the Epic Narrative Form in Modern French Literature and Thought
Ben Saffell Fitzwilliam ÌýÌý Towards a speculative naturalism: A critical investigation of the limits and scope of postcontinental philosophy's immanent ontology of nature Prof Ian James
Wilfred Skinner Fitzwilliam College Chantal Akerman and Georges Perec: Place and Memory
Maddison Sumner Robinson College Contemporary FrenchÌýtransfuges de classe, or "transclasses"Ìý Prof Emma Wilson
Eleanor Stefiuk Peterhouse Decadent Entanglement: Aesthetics, Politics, and Thought
Xinyi Wang Selwyn Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Ulysses in Resnais, Varda, Kieslowski Prof Emma Wilson
Cat Watts ±·±ð·É²Ô³ó²¹³¾ÌýÌý Credit where credit is due: reassigning myths, forms, and origins in medieval French literature Dr Miranda Griffin
Aubrae Wilson St Catherine's Staging Nobility: Networks, Identity, and Cultural Capital in the life of Elisabeth-Claire Leduc Prof Mark DarlowÌý
Genevieve Young Newnham Sing no bad songs of me: Affective excess in the chansons de geste. Dr Mary Franklin-Brown
Ruoshui (Henry) Zhang Girton Towards a Poetic Model of Philosophy: Philosophy of Immanence at the End of Philosophy Prof Ian James

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