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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Imagining children's rights in Central Africa : francophone fiction and international children's rights law
(2024-12-04) - ThesisIn recent decades, questions around the nature of childhood and children’s place in society have gained new attention, notably through the enunciation of children’s rights. At the same time, humanitarian and wider public ... -
A mythology of our own : fanwork as mythopoesis
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThe word ‘myth’ carries both negative and restrictive connotations. In common understanding, a pervasive falsehood, to be debunked in the name of rationality and progress, is often labelled as a myth; in academic discourse, ... -
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 ...