Modern Languages (School of)
St Andrews has a long-standing reputation in particular for research in French, German, Italian, Russian and Hispanic Studies, and has expanded its interests to include Arabic, Persian and Comparative Literature. We also have a number of research institutes which allow colleagues with shared interests in different departments to work on research projects together. In addition to these concentrations, with their respective areas of interest covering a wealth of disciplines which include world literature, linguistics, cinema, history, gender, identity studies, and comparative literature.
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Hybrid war and visual performances in digital Donbas militarism
(2025-06) - ThesisThis thesis explores online wartime commemoration by pro-Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2020 as a part of Russian hybrid war against Ukraine. I analyze two ‘digital memory sites’: the social media account ... -
Towards a neuroinclusive theory of the contemporary : representing the temporality and aesthetics of the contemporary in ten novels of neurodivergence
(2024-06-12) - ThesisSitting at the intersection of literary studies, epistemologies of the contemporary, and disability studies (in many of its declinations), my thesis explores selected novels written in English and French featuring characters ... -
Re-telling the stories of artists who are women : lessons from the multimedial fictions of George Sand
(2024-06-12) - ThesisThis study analyses George Sand’s depictions of artists as women creating in multiple art forms (as writers, actresses, musicians, and painters) to disclose Sand’s innovative narrative strategies that allow alternative ... -
Multispecies ruptures : stories of displacement and human-plant relations from Donbas, Ukraine
(2022-06-17) - ThesisThis thesis explores narratives of displacement from Donbas, Ukraine as a series of multispecies ruptures. Focusing on human-plant relations in oral histories of internally displaced persons (IDPs), it foregrounds ...