Current Research - BISC Faculty (2011-2012)

The Bader International Study Centre currently has faculty working across a variety of disciplines in Business, Social Sciences, and the Arts. Ongoing research includes the following fields of study:

• Australian strategic cultural theory
• Black and Minority Ethnic MPs in the United Kingdom
• British cultural studies
• Business ethics and technology
• Comparative British-German literature and culture
• Contemporary music and digital technology
• Contemporary Scottish literature
• Cultural history of foreign intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
• ‘Englishness’ in the literature, art, and travel writing of the 1930s and 1940s
• Europe in Crisis
• Film and ethics
• Formal logic and computer science
• French Impressionism, specifically the work of Edgar Degas
• Historical Deaf geography
• Marketing Communications
• Middle East politics, political economy, and conflict management
• Roots of the current Greek crisis
• Sufism in Britain
• The ‘Reionization Epoch’: the early universe after the Big Bang
• The Arab Spring
• The Canadian Army in Britain during World War II
• The history and archaeology of the Herstmonceux Castle Estate
• The Holocaust and Armenian, Cambodian, Bosnian and Rwandan genocides
• Totalitarianism
• Twentieth century French literature, specifically the work of Emile Zola

 

 

Baguley, David	Dr. David Baguley is currently completing a critical edition of Zola's novel La Débâcle for the “Classiques Garnier” series, with La Fortune des Rougon to follow in the same series. Early research is underway for a book on representations of the Dreyfus Affair. David is also continuing work on his annual bibliography of Zola criticism for Les Cahiers naturalistes, feeding into his on-line Bibliographie de la critique sur Émile Zola : [1864]-2008.
Baxter-Moore, Nick
Bennett, Dan	Dan Bennett’s current projects and interests at present include: the application of battlefield marketing techniques in UK Higher Education, and the historical development of the integrated marketing communications concept (working with a colleague on a case study from the 1920's). On top of this, he is also interested in the credibility of marketing communications, and the role of CRM in the current economic climate. Dan is also mentoring a group of students who are through to the national final of the Chartered Institute of Marketing's annual 'Pitch' competition.
Bloomfield, Alan	Dr Alan Bloomfield is currently: writing an article concerning strategic cultural theory and a book about Australian strategic history; preparing a conference paper and an article investigating the strategic ‘architecture’ of the Asia-Pacific region; and researching an article which assesses the impact of about Samuel P Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis.
Cereceda, Ruth
Gabriel, Theodore	Dr Theodore Gabriel is working on a book entitled Sufism in Britain and also an article “Is a blasphemy law necessary in a modern secular society? Problems of definition, validation and implementation.”
Gilchrist, Diana
Hunter, Brian
Hyland, Robert
Jinks, Becky	Becky Jinks is currently in the final year of her PhD at the University of London, working on a thesis entitled 'Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?', which focuses on the impact of the Holocaust on our understanding of the Armenian, Cambodian, Bosnian and Rwandan genocides. She is also working on a shorter project which she began whilst researching in Armenia, based around a striking and melancholy collection of photographs which depict some of the Armenian women who had been abducted by Turks, Kurds and Arab tribes during the deportations of 1915, whose faces and hands had been tattooed according to Bedouin custom.
Katz, Shelley
Keefe, John	John Keefe is currently working on the chapter “The film spectator as bricoleur: an ethics of viewing and poaching” in the new volume on film and ethics, What Would You Have Done, which is due for publication in December 2011. The commission for a book on “new dramaturgies” has been provisionally confirmed, to which volume he will be contributing a chapter on site specific / immersive theatres. Finally, John’s “Commentary” for his PhD by Prior Publication continues, with a deadline of March 2012.
Kitzel, Mary Beth	Mary Beth Kitzel is a historical geographer specializing in the geographies of Deaf communities. Her current research interests have been formed at the junction of her previous profession and keenest academic interests: geography, history, sign language and landscape history. Historical Deaf geography opens multiple opportunities to critically engage with the broader field in a new way. Post-colonial approaches to the Audist and literate predomination of the archive challenge the written record. Investigating a community before a written record of their existence requires a reading of the archival record for implicit evidence of their presence.
Kyriakopoulou, Kalliopi	Dr Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou’s current work includes: ‘New forms of mobilization and resistance: The Arab Spring and lessons of ‘electronic’ democratisation’; ‘Europe in crisis: Social capital in Europe under crisis’ (with Dr Eugene Michail); and ‘Presence and Behaviour (re)visited: Black and Minority Ethnic MPs in the United Kingdom’ (with Prof. T.K.Saalfeld).
Lawson, Daphne	Daphne Lawson is about to begin working on further research into Degas and the Cafe Concert Singer c1875-1880, derived from a chapter in her MA thesis.
Lintner, Valerio
Litwack, Eric	Dr Eric Litwack is working on: a survey article on totalitarianism for an encyclopaedia of philosophy; a conference paper on Primo Levi and liberal theory; and a general project on business ethics and technology.
Lloyd, Christian	Dr Christian Lloyd is currently working (with Dr Shara Rambarran) on an article about Tricky, the Bristolian experimental musician, called: “Tricky: Ghost Dandy, Haunted Soundscape, Mixed Medium”. He is also researching metamorphosis and the London Underground.
Locke, Richard
Lowe, Peter	Dr Peter Lowe’s current project is a monograph on the idea of 'Englishness' as found in the literature, art, and travel writing of the 1930s and 1940s. He considers the importance that the idea took on in the years leading up to the outbreak of World War Two and the ways in which the concept of national identity became such a valuable part of the government's propaganda in wartime and the years that followed. The study, entitled English Journeys: National and Cultural Identity in the 1930s and 1940s will be published by Cambria Press, New York, in the Spring of 2012.
McLean, Scott	Dr Scott McLean is currently working on a book on the Canadian Army in Britain during WWII, with particular emphasis on British media representations of Canada and the Canadian soldier. He is also conducting long term research into the history and archaeology of the Herstmonceux Castle Estate.
Michail, Eugene	Dr Eugene Michail is currently working on a cultural history of foreign intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, analysing how perceptions both of the conflict and of the mission of the West changed as the decade progressed. He is also preparing a short study on the roots of the current Greek crisis.
Pedroza, Len
Rambarran, Shara
Smith, Shannon	Shannon Smith is in the final stages of her PhD dissertation in Victorian Literature and Culture, tentatively titled Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1865-1905,which examines the ways in which men who participated in the newly-developed sphere of modern sport were represented in various popular culture forms in the nineteenth century. Shannon is also developing a post-doctoral project which will explore the influence of nineteenth-century Irish playwright, Dion Boucicault on the structure of contemporary sports stories, specifically those with an equine focus. Her interest in our contemporary engagement with Victorian theatrical convention is part of a larger research interest in neo-Victorianisms, including but not limited to: neo-Victorian novels, film adaptations, and comics, the steampunk movement, and 21st-century attempts to rebuild Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. She has contributed entries to the British Library's Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (2009) and essays to essay collections concerned with women in sport. Her most recent article, "Staging Sport: Dion Boucicault, the Victorian Spectacular Theatre, and the Manly Ideal" will appear in the spring 2012 issue of Critical Survey.
Sparks, Gordon
Stanley, Bruce	Dr Bruce Stanley has published on a range of Middle East political and political economy issues, including on cities in the Middle East and their centrality to conflict and conflict management. He has published on developments in Palestinian politics and on NGOs in the Middle East. He has also served as a consultant for the EU, Quakers and Jordanian organizations on conflict resolution. Bruce is currently writing a book on Middle East City Networks in the Global Urban System.
Taylor, Anna
Taylor, Chris	Dr Chris Taylor’s main field of research has been formal logic --- in particular, its application to computer science, in the areas of logic programming and the formal specification of computer software systems. Very recently, he has begun some research in the mathematical and computational modelling of the ``reionization epoch'', a phase in the early Universe in which the first stars and galaxies were forming and beginning to re-ionize the surrounding neutral gas that had condensed out from the initial hot plasma phase of the Big Bang.
Taylor, Mike
Wilper, James	James Wilper specializes in comparative British-German literature and culture and is in the final stages of PhD research, having sat his viva voce in November 2011. His thesis is titled The Love That Demands to Speak its Name: Cross-Cultural Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in German and English Novels, 1906-1926.