Training Fellow in History and the Humanities
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Professor Charles Burdett
Director of the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
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Professor Burdett is Director of the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, and
Professor in Italian Studies, and Branch Director, Bilingualism Matters London
He is currently on research leave.
The principal areas of my research are literary culture under Fascism; travel writing; the Italian colonial presence in Libya and East Africa and its legacy; theories of inter-cultural and transnational contact; the representation of Islam and the Islamic world in recent Italian literature and culture. An important part of my work concerns the theoretical frame through which we consider transnational contact and the implications for the disciplinary field of Modern Languages of the study of cultural translation in all its forms.
