Research and Teaching
These PPTs (in English) are used for two 2-hour sessions as part of a team-taught module called the Art of Reading which is taught in the MA in International Contemporary Literature and Media. This section explores how contemporary French poetry engages with the environmental crisis, using language to challenge dominant discourses. Students conduct close readings […]
This PPT (in French) is used in week 8 of the module French Poetry: From Romanticism to Slam (BA French, Year 2), a class which focuses on eco-poetry, drawing connections between 19th-century representations of nature and contemporary poetic responses to the climate crisis. This module introduces key movements—romanticism, symbolism, surrealism, Oulipo, eco-poetry, and slam—exploring how […]
This lecture and seminar were designed as part of the Francophone strand of the co-taught final year module ‘Languages and Ecologies’ for students of Modern Languages (French, Spanish, German and Italian). The module introduces students to the field of Environmental Humanities through a transnational and interdisciplinary approach. It focuses on the French-, Hispanic-, Italian- and […]
‘Spain through Its Writers’ is a final-year research-led module for students in Iberian Studies at Bangor University (Wales). It introduces students to the genre of travel writing and explores how the image of Spain given by its own writers has changed over the past 100 years. The resources from this course that are shared below […]
This lecture and seminar were designed for the MFL Student Mentoring: Post-16 Languages Recovery Project in Wales, UK. The aim was to give post-16 learners a taste of language learning at university, and the resources can be adapted to learners at B1, B2 and C1 levels, or even at beginners’ level, as English translations of […]
This resource provides materials on Environmental English that have emerged out of a Bachelor’s course on sustainable digitalization. The course combines a detailed language instruction course that is offered to German students who study technical and business-related English. Within this seminar, students will be able to combine a study of environmental topics (either Bachelor’s or […]