Research

All our members share an interest in innovative theoretical frameworks to examine mobilities in and of cultural texts. We work across periods and disciplines (literature, history and area studies, translation and intercultural communication); our collective work focuses on exploring and developing interdisciplinary perspectives.

Themes

Crossover themes and concepts include:

Cities and urban culture
Travel literature, travel in literature and transport history
Social and cultural networks
Transnationalism as theory and practice, and its limitations
Subversive material and virtual spaces and the imagination of alternative spaces
Disconnections and connections
Embodiment and the practice and politics of movement
Post-humanism
Text genres as agents and products of mobilities, encompassing the novel, travel writing, epistolary and life writing, and other fictional and nonfictional forms.

These are deployed across and within historical and contemporary frameworks. Areas of specialism range from the Middle Ages to present day, covering periods including:

Mediaeval literature
Romanticism
Victorianism
Postmodernism.

Impact in conversation

Dr Doris Dippold talks about the impacts of her research on the internationalisation of higher education and the role of language in artificial intelligence.

Impact in Conversation: Dr Doris Dippold | University of Surrey

Highlighted publications

Alonso, María Alonso, Barbour, Catherine (eds.), Galicia on the move, Journal of Romance Studies (2020), 20, (3), 395–407.

Constance Bantman, Jean Grave and the Networks of French Anarchism (1854-1939) (Palgrave, 2021).
Doris Dippold and Marion Heron (eds.), Meaningful Teaching Interaction at the Internationalised University: Moving From Research to Impact (Routledge, 2021).

Carl Thompson, Katrina O'Loughlin, Éadaoin Agnew, Betty Hagglund (eds.), Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854 (Routledge, 2020).