Research

Research interests in the Discipline includes the following areas:

• Nineteenth-century French novel (Stendhal, Maupassant, Barbey d'Aurevilly, etc)
• Nineteenth century German musical life and its relation to cultural and national identity
• Wagner's use of mediaeval German sources
• Word and music studies
• Chance, destiny and the picaresque tradition
• French crime fiction
• French exploration in the south seas (especially the Baudin expedition)
• Applied linguistics
• The New Thinking of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy .