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Dr Rosalind Silvester

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Dr Rosalind Silvester

Dr Rosalind Silvester

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Silvester has research interests in contemporary literature (post-1980) and migration studies, most notably concerning francophone-Chinese writing, film and art. She also has a background in Sartrean Studies and discourse analysis. Part of her research has taken an interdisciplinary angle, combining text and image studies, philosophy and film criticism, applying theories from the Education Sciences to literature, and investigating intermediality.

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  • r.silvester@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3333

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Francophone-Chinese Studies
  • Intermediality
  • Contemporary literature, including women’s writing
  • Migration / Mobility Studies
  • Sartrean Studies

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Involvement with the Belfast Migrant Centre’s ‘The Belonging Project’ (2014-16)
  • Collaboration with the Community Arts Partnership (from 2018)   

Research students

PhD Title Multimodality in Contemporary French Women's Life Narratives
Country Northern Ireland
   

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Space in Haitian Women’s Writing
Country  Northern Ireland
Current Position  Postdoc at North Western University, Chicago 
   

 

 


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