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Research Directory
The research directory forms part of the Centre's role as a hub that connects researchers working in the contemporary and modern periods across the university. Home departments, research interests and linked profiles with contact information are provided for ease of making connections for collaborative research projects. Staff and student departmental research profiles are linked where available. The Centre's mailing list can also be used to make contact with other modern and contemporary scholars at the university.
To express your interest in being listed on the directory, please email cmacs-enquiries@york.ac.uk
Research Directory - Staff
| Name (Department) | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Nicoletta Asciuto (English and Related Literature) |
Modernism; poetry & poetics; history of technology; translation studies. |
| Clare Bielby (Centre for Women's Studies) |
Terrorism; violence; affect; history of feminisms; queer studies and feminist queer theory. |
| Ana Bilbao (History of Art) |
Contemporary art from the Global South; histories of exhibition-making; decolonial pedagogies; extractivism; links between visual culture, human, and environmental rights. |
| Ed Braman (Arts and Creative Technologies) |
Creative industries; film and television; modern American literature. |
| Sabine Clarke (History) |
History of science; technology and medicine; empire and development; environment. |
| David Clayton (History) |
Economic history; history of technology, especially radio broadcasting; water supplies; Hong Kong; Britain. |
| Matt Coward-Gibbs (Sociology) |
Pleasure and leisure; death and dying; culture and community; deviance and transgression. |
| Jason Edwards (History of Art) |
Art of the British empire; queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; vegan theory; complex systems theory; Victorian photography; Victorian and modernist sculpture. |
| John Evemy (Politics) |
Contemporary immigration and economic policy in the UK. |
| Matthew Festenstein (Politics) |
20th century political thought; contemporary political theory. |
| Harald Fredheim (Archaeology) |
Museum studies; critical heritage studies; public archaeology; nature-cultures. |
| Alice Hall (Englsh and Related Literature) |
Modern and contemporary British and American literature; theories of embodiment; disability; gender; care; medical humanities. |
| Marta Herrero (Arts and Creative Technologies) |
Arts charities; women's philanthropy in the art world; non-profit fundraising; art market studies. |
| Mark Hutchinson (Music) |
Analysis of post-1980s concert music; overlaps between music, literature and philosophy; musical borrowing, quotation and intertextuality. |
| Alexandra Kingston-Reese (English and Related Literature) |
Affect; contemporary literature; politics. |
| Liam Maloney (Arts and Creative Technologies) |
Sound recording, electronic dance music history, listening studies, music sociology, Remix |
| Juliana Mensah (English and Related Literature) |
Contemporary literature; practice-led; Africa and diaspora; human rights and social justice. |
| Alfred Moore (Politics) |
Contemporary democratic theory; modern political thought; politics of expertise. |
| Colleen Morgan (Archaeology) |
The archaeology of digital things; avatars; cyborgs; robots. |
| Jenna Ng (Arts and Creative Technologies) |
Digital visual culture; algorithmic culture; East Asian cinema; interactive media and storytelling. |
| Tom O'Brien (Sociology) |
Social movements; democratisation; environmental sociology; political leadership. |
| Benjamin Poore (Arts and Creative Technologies) |
Post-war and contemporary British playwriting; histories and dramaturgies of the history play; cultural afterlives of the Victorians in the modern era; adaptation for stage and screen. |
| Karen Quigley (Arts and Creative Technologies) |
20th/21st century theatre and performance; impossibility and unstageability; voice and music in contemporary theatre. |
| Hannah Roche (English and Related Literature) |
Queer literature and cultural history; transatlantic modernism; expatriate identity; the politics of genre. |
| John Schofield (Archaeology) |
Contemporary archaeology; marine pollution, cultural heritage; Plastic Age; citizen science; buildings conservation and heritage; experimental archaeology and artefact studies; Roman, medieval and historical |
| Ayshka Sené (Sociology) |
Honorary Fellow. History and memory of the Second World War in France and Britain; national identity and belonging in France; oral history theory and practice. |
| Anna Strhan (Sociology) |
Religion; secularism; ethics; childhood; cities. |
| Dominic Watt (Language and Linguistic Science) |
Forensic linguistics and phonetics; sociophonetics; speech perception; language and identity studies; dialectology. |
| Michael White (History of Art) |
Modernist art and architecture; theory of the avant-garde; the legacies of the European avant-gardes. |
| Judith Woolf (English and Related Literature) |
20th century Italian-Jewish writers, especially Primo Levi; life writing, especially in relation to the Holocaust; and narrative patterns in European literature. |
Research Directory - PGRs
| Name (Department) | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Anna Bailie (Politics) |
Mental Health Politics. |
| Bethan Boulter (Archaeology) |
Archaeology of school buildings, especially the influence of contemporary ideologies on school architecture |
| Martin Brook (History of Art) |
Charles Rutherston - The North of England's forgotten modernist pioneer? A case study into the collection and reception of modern art in the North of England, c.1900-1945 |
| Emma Bryning (Archaeology) |
Historic and contemporary graffiti; community engagement and public participation with heritage and historic sites; the intersection of contemporary art and heritage; feminist art history/histories; performance art. |
| Caitlin Doley (History of Art) |
Beyond Superficial Senescence: Art and Old Age in Victorian and Edwardian Britain |
| Ryan Ellis (Archaeology) |
Resilient Traces: Investigating the contested heritage significance of recent military colonial legacies – the example of former RAF Changi, Singapore. |
|
Francisca Fernández Arce |
Authenticity and Uncertainty in the Belfast Group’s Marginalia |
| Caitlin Fisher (English and Related Literature) |
‘Stillness in the Ceaselessness’: Temporality in Pandemic Quarantine Literature via Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Brianna Frentzko (English and Related Literature) |
Reproducing Myths of Rebellion: Reanimating Frankenstein and Deconstructing the “Human” in Early 21st Century Literature |
| Xiao Ge (Centre for Women's Studies) |
Feminism; gender; family/intimate relations; reproductive health; China. |
| Gertrude Gibbons (English and Related Literature) |
Performing Across Frontiers: The Living Archive of Theatre-Making and the Search for a 'Universal' Language of Theatre in Europe from the late 1970s to the 2000s |
| Adriana Murad Konings (English and Related Literature) |
Contemporary literature; literature of suspicion; post-45 transatlantic novel. |
| Leena Lindell (History) |
Between Worlds: Kenneth Cantlie and locomotive engineering in Africa, the Americas and Asia |
| Mikelyn Rochford (English and Related Literature) |
Extricating the Work of Flann O;Brien, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan and Pádraic Ó Conaire from Narrative Theory's Normative Realist Assumptions. |
| Summer Sapiano (English and Related Literature) |
‘Making Mincemeat’: Abjection and the Queer Politics of Contamination in 21st Century Spectacle Horror Cinema |
| Giulia Schirripa (History of Art) |
"The Writing Italian Feminism", a project investigating artists’ writings and artists’ books by women involved in the feminist movement in Italy from the 1970s to the 1980s. |
| Zaynab Seedat (English and Related Literature) |
Contemporary literature; Muslim writing; South Asia; Britain; terrorism; radicalisation; ISIS. |
| Elena Sinagra (History of Art) |
Artists from the 1970s to the present who reinterpret classical mythology through feminist frameworks, positioning such practices as critical interventions. |
| Leah Tharpe (History of Art) |
Mining (in) the gap: Nineteenth Century Traveller-Artists in the Anglo-Prone Frontier |
| Wiktoria Tunska (English and Related Literature) |
Affect studies; contemporary literature; critical and cultural theory; Brexit. |
| Archie Williams (History of Art) |
Investigating the changing relationship between UNESCO and the national government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on policy towards built heritage, 1991-2016 |
| Wenchao Zhu (Women’s Studies & York Law School) | Contemporary Chinese digital discourse constructs and negotiates meanings of reproduction, kinship, gendered obligations and family legitimacy. |
Research Directory - Associates
| Sam Coe | |
| Nicholas Dunn-McAfee | Victorian poetry, British and Irish art 1789–1914, Form and formal relations, Aesthetics, Close reading |
| Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani |