The following people are in this group:
Professor Michael Basker Emeritus Dean Tel. (0117) 42 82276 m.basker@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Ruth Coates Senior Lecturer Tel. (0117) 928 8190 ruth.coates@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Steffan Davies Senior Lecturer in German Tel. (0117) 928 8798 steffan.davies@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Connor Doak Lecturer Tel. (0117) 928 7596 connor.doak@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Susan Harrow Ashley Watkins Chair in French Language and Literature Tel. (0117) 3318337 s.r.harrow@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Rebecca Kosick Lecturer Tel. (0117) 928 7948 rebecca.kosick@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Christabelle Peters Lecturer in Latin American Cultural History Tel. (0117) 928 9747 c.a.peters@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Paco Romero Salvado Reader in Modern Spanish History Tel. (0117) 928 9721 f.romerosalvado@bristol.ac.uk
Dr Bradley Stephens Associate Professor in French Literature Tel. (0117) 928 7914 bradley.stephens@bristol.ac.uk
Professor Robert Vilain Professor of German and Comparative Literature Tel. (0117) 928 8794 robert.vilain@bristol.ac.uk
The ‘long’ 19th century is represented by Russianists Michael Basker (poetry studies), Ruth Coates (literature and intellectual history) and Derek Offord (history, thought, language and literature).
In the Romance languages a cluster is formed by Andrew Ginger (Spanish cultural modernity) and Rhian Atkin in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American (HiPLA), Susan Harrow (poetry and narrative studies), Bradley Stephens (narrative and intellectual ideas) and Mariekke Dubbelboer (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow) (avant-garde studies), all in the Department of French; Robert Vilain, in the Department of German, is a specialist in modernist literature especially poetry.
Steffan Davies in German specialises in the relation between the Wallenstein figure and constructions of 19th-century national identity. Davies’s research in Romanticism, an interest shared with Stephens, connect both these early-career Modern Languages colleagues with researchers in Romantic studies in the Bristol English Department.
Harrow is a past President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Books by Davies on Wallenstein and by Harrow on Zola and modernity appeared in 2010, and Stephens’s monograph on Hugo and Sartre was published in 2011. Ginger’s book on Liberalismo y Romanticismo traces the historicisation of the subject in the second third of the 19th century, and is forthcoming in 2012.
The work of Atkin, Dubbelboer, Basker, Ginger, Harrow and Stephens traverses the century’s boundaries, connecting with modernism studies in literature (poetry and narrative), intermedial art, and thought: this provides natural links with the work of Vilain.
