History of translation: French-English translation in the eighteenth century with particular reference to radical thinkers.
The cultural construction of national identity: issue of race and migration; national identity in and historiography; heritage and public memory in Britain.
History of linguistic thought: analysis of linguistic thought with particular reference to the history of terminology, and ‘plain style’.
Irish studies: with particular reference to Irish migration to Europe and European influences on Ireland in the eighteenth century.
Heritage studies; with particular reference to dissonant heritage in twentieth-century Europe.
