Research Across Borders

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

Staff from the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies discuss the benefits and challenges of researching beyond one's home nation.

Staff participating in this discussion are:Ting Chang: Ting is a Canadian scholar working in the field of European art history. After completing her BA and MA degrees in Canada she obtained a Commonwealth Doctoral Fellowship to pursue her PhD at the University of Sussex. She had a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford Brookes before teaching at McGill in Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She has been working at Nottingham since 2012. Her research concerns intercultural contacts, particularly between France, Japan and China in the nineteenth century. Gillian Roberts: Gillian is a Canadian scholar working in the field of Canadian Studies. After her undergraduate and MA degrees in Canada, she moved to the UK in 2000 to do her PhD in English, on Canadian literature and literary prizes, at the University of Leeds. She returned to Canada in 2005 for a postdoctoral fellowship before moving back to the UK in 2006. Her research interests include the Canada-US border, postcolonial film adaptation, and representations of settlement in Canada since the Idle No More movement.Monica White: Following completion of a BA in Russian and East European Studies at Wesleyan University, Monica lived in Russia for two years before embarking on a PhD at Cambridge. Her research focuses on the history, culture and religion of the Byzantine Empire and the early East Slavs from c. 800-1453.

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