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: Heather Marsden, Department of Languages and Linguistic Science, University of York
| Member | University | Research interests |
| Margaret Atack | Leeds | French film and fiction of the Vichy years; postwar war/occupation narratives; French women’s writing; roman/film noir; French culture of the 1950/60s; 20th century French thought and culture |
| 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 |
| Caroline Bland | Sheffield | Late 19th- and early 20th-century German literature and culture |
| Nicole Baumgarten | Sheffield | Applied linguistics; linguistic construction and negotiation of concepts and social categories in communication across languages and cultures |
| Tom McAuley | Sheffield | Japanese studies; Japanese classical and medieval poetry; Japanese botanical gardens and literary tourism |
| Paul Foulkes | York | Language variation and change; phonetics, phonology, sociophonetics; first language acquisition; forensic phonetics |
| Nino Grillo | York | Locality restrictions on syntactic dependencies (in particular movement and attachment); the interaction of event structure and passivisation, argument/adjunct asymmetries and perceptual reports |
| Giuseppe Longobardi | York | Theoretical and comparative syntax, focusing on the study of the grammar/meaning interface |