CNIC Network Associates
The follow page lists - alphabetically - CNIC Network Associates from Cardiff University and from partner institutions.
Further details can be found on personal research pages. (**Indicates member of the CNIC Steering Committee.)
Tilmann Altenberg
Hispanic Studies, School of European Studies
Interests: Hispanic studies, Latin American crime fiction; the construction of the conquest and exploitation of the Americas as a crime.
**Vito Breda
Cardiff Law School
Interests: Jurisprudence, Sociology, Political Theory, European Constitutional Theory
**Claire Gorrara
French, School of European Studies
Interests: crime narratives in 20th/21st century France; crime fictions, histories, visual and textual materials.
Katharina Hall
German, School of Modern Languages, Swansea University
Interests: representations of National Socialism and the Holocaust in contemporary German literature, particularly crime fiction. She has published on work of Günter Grass, Bernhard Schlink, W.G. Sebald, Esther Dischereit and Zafer Şenocak
Tom Hall
School of Social Sciences
Interests: youth, inequality and the underclass; youth, citizenship and the transition to adulthood; social exclusion, homelessness and ‘street’ life; begging, benefits, voluntary work and the gift
Chris Heffer
Language and Communication, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Interests: construction of crime narratives in court rooms, comparing the narratives of legal profession and participants (judge, jurors, barristers, witness, defendants etc).
Ian Jones
School of Social Sciences
Interests: creativity relating to the Knowledge Economy
Martin Kayman
English Literature, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Interests: law and literature in the 18thc; development of fiction and the common law in England; theoretical issues regarding the ‘corpus’
Stephen Knight
English Literature, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Interests: Anglophone crime fiction in its many different incarnations.
Rachael Langford
French, School of European Studies
Interests: African literature from French speaking colonies; ideas of violence and justice surrounding colonialism and law-making; outlaws, cowboys, land law in film-making and photography.
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost
Cardiff School of Welsh
Interests: Sociolinguistics; minority languages; language conflict and protest.
Frances Rock
Language and Communication, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Interests: language of the police and the taking of witness statements; the transformation of the spoken to the written work, and its importance to the legal system.
David Skilton
English Literature, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Interests: Victorian fiction, and literary illustration in relation to ostensibly 'factual' representation; would like to develop a project which would examine illustration in the C19th of 'true’ and ‘fictional’ crime alongside each other, and investigate the process by which the imagery involved is taken up in comic books and film.
Garthine Walker
History, School of History and Archaeology
Interests: social history of gender, crime and law in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century England and Wales; current work focuses on interpretative issues of early modern legal testimony and subjectivity in general and rape and sexual violence in particular.
**Heather Worthington
English Literature, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Interests: crime fiction generally; the development of the genre in the nineteenth century and connections with modes of writing such as medical case history and professional narratives. Also twentieth and twenty-first century crime narratives and the interface with politics and cultural conceptions of crime.