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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society	AHRC	2012	31 December 2099
Magister Mundi? Hermann Hesse's Global Impact	Internally funded	1 January 2019	31 December 2099
Spectacular Subjects: Modernism, Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan	Leverhulme (January – July 2019 only)	1st August 2018	31 December 2099
The Senses and the Meanings of Modernity in East Asia	Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant LCS Strategic Research and Development Grant	01 June 2018	31 December 2099
Love Letters and Erotic Letters: Antiquity and Beyond	Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (for the first conference, 2018); Patrum Lumen Sustine Foundation, Switzerland; and University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy (for the second conference, 2025)	1 January 2018	31 December 2030
Correspondance générale de Benjamin Constant	Multiple funders	1 January 1993	1 January 2030

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry	AHRC	1 October 2021	30 September 2022
Masculinity through the lens of power and violence in post-WW2 British and French children’s literature	Excellence Scholarship (LCS)	1 October 2018	1 October 2021
Laughter from the Grassland: Humour and Comedy in Amdo Tibet	Internally funded	1 January 2013	1 June 2021
Framing the Lyric Subject Matter: Prose Headings in Italian Books of Poetry (c.1450-c.1650)	Humboldt Fellowship	1 November 2019	30 April 2021
Beyond Tomorrow. German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century	Internally funded	1 January 2014	31 December 2020
Elegia renascens: Latin love elegy collections from antiquity to the Renaissance	Leverhulme Trust	1 February 2019	1 September 2020
Yemen in Conflict: Popular literary heritage as expression of conflict and tool for conflict resolution	British Academy	1 February 2019	30 June 2020
Les Femmes s'entêtent: Feminism, writing, art and film 1975-2015	Internally funded	1 January 2015	31 December 2019
Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c.1350-c.1650	AHRC	1 January 2017	31 December 2019
The Transcultural Fantastic	LAHRI	1 September 2018	1 September 2019
The Hercules Project: A hero for all ages	AHRC-supported	1 September 2016	31 December 2018
Writing the Revolution. The Construction of '1968' in Germany	Internally funded	1 January 2010	31 December 2016
Unheard Voices: The Poetry of the Gallipoli Campaign	AHRC	20 June 2017	20 June 2017
The Woman Reader Project	BA / Leverhulme Trust	July 2016	July 2017
Skipton’s First World War Prisoner-of-War Camp	Ignite Funding 2015-16; HLF 2017-19; Erasmus 2017-18; First World War Network 2019; University of Leeds Q-Step (summer 2019); University of Leeds Laidlaw Scholarship (2020-22).	01 September 2015	01 September 2099
Middlebrow culture in Europe 20th/21st centuries	Internally funded	1 January 2014	Ongoing
Family Sagas in World Literatures and Audio-Visual Cultures: Reimagining Nations Across the Globe	UoL / BCLA	2017	2017
EStages.UK. Spanish theatre in United Kingdom (1982-2019)	Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Individual Fellowship), Horizon 2020, European Commission. Grant agreement ID: 797942	2019	2023
Dostoevsky Now	Internally funded	2016	2016