This cluster encompasses a range of topics in theoretical and empirical linguistics including discourse analysis, language and gender, language and power, and international linguistics, applied linguistics and language acquisition, as well as literary linguistics, visual cultures, gender and identity, intellectual history and politics, migration, culture and community, literary studies and cultural history.
Chair: Tom McAuley, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
| Member | University | Research interests |
| Nina Wardleworth | Leeds | World War II and the French Empire; Colonial subjects in the French Resistance |
| Duncan Wheeler | Leeds | Golden Age drama and prose fiction; Hispanic and European cinema(s); translation; popular music; contemporary Spanish culture and politics; twentieth-century Spanish theatre; gender and sexuality |
| Thea Pitman | Leeds | Latin/x American digital cultures; Latin/x American literature, film, art, and popular culture; Indigenous cultures and cultural production in Abya Yala; decolonial approaches; Spanish; Portuguese |
| Sean Williams | Sheffield | German literary and intellectual history since the late 18th Century; early modern consumer culture |
| Nicole Baumgarten | Sheffield | Applied linguistics; linguistic construction and negotiation of concepts and social categories in communication across languages and cultures |
| Marjorie Dryburgh | Sheffield | Memory and oral histories of empire and occupation in Manchuria/north-east China; pre-war north China; Sino-Japanese relations; life writing |
| Catherine Laing | York | Infant language acquisition, specifically the phonetics and phonology of early perception and production. |
| Shayne Sloggett | York | Psycholinguistics and sentence processing, with a particular interest in syntactic processing and pronominal reference |
| Joel Wallenberg | York | Empirical and theoretical work concerning language change over time; linguistic structure, human cognition |