Modern Languages Theses
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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Recent Submissions
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Multilingualism, mourning, and (m)other tongues : women writing exile in transnational autofiction
(2025-07-01) - ThesisIn my thesis, Multilingualism, Mourning, and (M)Other Tongues: Women Writing Exile in Transnational Autofiction, I analyse autofictional texts by transnational writers Jessica Au, Nina Bouraoui, Claudia Durastanti, Assia ... -
Faith and feminism : mysticism, theology and the Bible in the works of Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella
(2024-12-04) - ThesisAbstract redacted -
Sites of resistance, or sights of pleasure? Subversive queer aesthetics in Russian music videos of the 2010s
(2024-12-04) - ThesisOn 30th June 2013, the Russian Parliament passed the so-called Anti-Gay Propaganda Law, which aimed to prohibit the spread of information of ‘non-traditional sexual orientation’ among minors, as well as prohibiting any ... -
Ebrahim Golestan's fictional and cinematic worlds
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThis dissertation offers an analytical exploration of Ebrahim Golestan's (1922-2023) role in shaping modern literature and cinema in Iran, focusing on his contributions as a writer, translator, filmmaker, producer, and ... -
Fragmented subjects : fracture, ethics, and relationality in Elena Ferrante and Goliarda Sapienza
(2022-06-17) - ThesisThis dissertation explores an overlap between fragmented female subjectivities, ethics, and relationality in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels (2011-14) and Goliarda Sapienza’s ‘autobiografia delle contraddizioni’ (1967-87 ...
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