Suzuko Anai

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies

Suzuko Anai's interests include:

• ICT and language learning
  How technology could be used to enhance Japanese language teaching and learning. Past projects include
  investigating Japanese corpora and cross-cultural distance learning, using an internet video-conference facility.
• Developing Japanese ICT materials
• Learner perception, experience and learner autonomy in e-learning
• Development of a blended e-learning course for the Beginners Japanese  

Dr Nathalie Aubert

Reader in French

Nathalie Aubert works on 19th and 20th C French and Francophone (Belgian) literatures and her particular interests are in French and Francophone poetry, fiction and visual culture; she is also particularly interested in the history and theory of avant-garde movements from 19th C to 20th C. She is the MA in French by Research Programme director. She is on the editorial board of the academic journal Textyles.

Professor Mark Bannister

Emeritus Professor in Early Modern Literature,

Emeritus Professor Mark Bannister works on early modern French literature and contributes to the CESAR project.

Dr Sabine Chaouche

Senior Lecturer in French Studies, Director of the CESAR Project (http://www.cesar.org.uk)

Sabine Chaouche specializes in the C17 and C18 French Theatre and Performance. She has expertise in the theories of acting across the centuries, rhetoric (actio oratoria), corporal eloquence and declamation. She has a particular interest in staging, costumes and the business environment of Parisian playhouses in the Early Modern period (in particular the Comédie-Française and its institutional history), as well as in visuals arts (theatrical frontispieces & representation of actors).

Dr Wendy Che

Associate Lecturer

Dr Barbara Giraud

Lecturer in French Literature (19th C) and Cinema

Barbara Giraud works mainly on 19th Century French literature, culture and society.  Her interests are in the French novel and its interactions with the history of medicine, more particularly with the birth of psychology as a science in the second part of the 19th Century.  She has also developed an interest in Cinema and its representations of social change in France and is now teaching cinema modules.

Professor Hans Hahn

Emeritus Professor of German

Emeritus Professor Hans J Hahn specialised in German literature and thought, mostly on the nineteenth century. He is currently working on the Swiss novelist Gottfried Keller, but has also published on German romanticism and the 1848 revolutions in Germany.

Dr Irène Hill

Head of Modern Languages, Principal lecturer in French, Course Leader for the MA in European Business, Culture and Languages

Irène Hill is particularly interested in Politics and the Business Environment in France and in a European context. She is the Course leader of the MA in European Business, Culture and Languages.

Christina Horvath

Senior Lecturer in French

Christina Horvath's particular areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone writing, society and culture.  The central topic of her research is the figure of the city in contemporary literature, especially Thomas Hardy, Walter Scott, and writing by women.

Keiko Ikeshiro

Language Instructor in Japanese

Dominique Johnson

Associate Lecturer in French Language

Dominique Johnson's particular interests are in:

• The development of Foundation French, Intermediate French and French in a Business Context I and II for the VLE and on-line teaching and assessing.
• The University wide language programme.
• Extreme right nationalist parties in France between 1870 – 1992.

Karen Kruse

Co-ordinator of the Spanish programme

Her main research interests include the integration of technology in language teaching and the study of language in its social context. She is currently working on a Tandem Project using video conferencing software (Skype) for language learning and practice between the Spanish in a Business Context students at Brookes and students of different business schools institutions in Spain for mutual benefit.

John S. LoBreglio

Lecturer in Japanese and Contemporary Society

John LoBreglio's doctoral research examines the doctrinal, ritual and institutional modernisation of Sōtō Zen Buddhism during the Meiji period (1868-1911) and considers the implications that these changes have for the Buddhist institutions in contemporary Japan.

He is also interested in the study of Japanese religions from pre-history to the present, East Asian Buddhism generally, and methodological issues in the study of religion.

Chris Madge

Lecturer (part-time)

Dr Alberto Mira

Reader in Spanish

Monique Moreton

Senior Lecturer in French

Yoko Ono

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Dana Wentworth

Associate Lecturer in English Language