Mobilities in Literature and Culture Research Centre

Founded in 2017, we are a large interdisciplinary research centre based in the School of Literature and Languages. We bring together colleagues conducting research and/or teaching focused on (im-)mobilities in texts and contexts, from a range of disciplinary, empirical and theoretical perspectives, from literature, history, translation and cultural studies, and periodisations, from the medieval to the contemporary period.

What we do

Important societal issues such as globalisation, migration, multilingualism, technology and their reception are central to the research conducted by our current members. Our activities include a monthly reading group, writing workshop, and guest talks.

To enquire about our activities and join our mailing list, please contact Charlotte Mathieson (c.mathieson@surrey.ac.uk) or Constance Bantman (c.bantman@surrey.ac.uk).

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Research

All our members share an interest in innovative theoretical frameworks to examine mobilities in and of cultural texts.

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Study with us

Our key focus is contributing to the training of postgraduate research students working with mobilities paradigms.

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Events

We run training events and workshops, as well as monthly seminars during term time.

Meet the team

Dr Constance Bantman

Co-Director

I am the Deputy Head of the School of Literature and Languages (SLL) and was previously the School's Director of Learning and Teaching (2017-21). I teach French language, translation, culture and politics at all levels on the undergraduate language programme. My research focuses on the history of the French anarchist movement from 1870 until 1939, with an emphasis on transnation...

Dr Gabriele Lazzari

Co-Director

I am a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, with a PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. Working at the intersection of comparative literature and novel theory, my research focuses on how contemporary literature engages with transnational migrations and the legacies of colonial and racial modernity. My current book project, New Global Realism: Thinkin...

Dr Lena Mattheis

Co-Director

My academic journey started in Germany, where I received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Anglophone studies, French literature, and media studies, before starting my doctoral research on translocal city novels at the University of Duisburg-Essen. This literary urban research then took me to the University of Namibia, where I briefly taught and conducted research, and sparked my endurin...
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