A SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND TOPICS DEVELOPED WITH TUTEES (FROM
"A LEVEL" TO POSTGRADUATE) 2019-2021
Please make sure you have a clear idea of what you are researching, especially for linguistics.
FRENCH
Surrealism and its female protagonists. Neither an object nor a muse
Decadence and aestheticism in Huysman’s A Rebours
French cinema between 1930 and 1960 and the influence of the Vaudeville
Duras : Moderato Cantabile, La Pluie d'été, L'amant
The Algerian revolution: Assia Djebar
La Haine, Au Revoir les Enfants, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (A level programs)
Paroles de Femmes: feminist writing in France
French Art Nouveau and Art Deco: Decorative Arts in the 1920s
Help with translations and oral exams
Emilce Rees: Conference Paper delivered at Women in French, UK:
ITALIAN
Dante and Beatrice: unrequited, distant love
Representation of historical change in post-war Italian cinema
Gli Anni Di Piombo
Dante’s Purgatorio: plot and major characters
Aspetti della società trecentesca criticati da Dante nell’Inferno
Petrarch’s Canzoniere and religion
Fosse Ardeatine and Fascist Monuments
Help with translations and oral exams
LINGUISTICS
Morphology and Clitic pronouns
Third language acquisition and bilingualism
The passive in Romance languages
Complementisers and adjuncts in English
Child language acquisition and the critical period hypothesis
Code-switching and discourse analysis
The structure of infinitival IP
Minimalist Syntax (as per Radford and Haegeman)
Own thesis can be found via UCL library:
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Title:
Functional categories and SPEC-head agreement
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Author: Emilce Sandra. Rees
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Creation Date: 1994
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Format: 208 leaves.
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Language: English
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Notes: ■ Thesis: (MPhil) University of London 1994
PHONETICS
Optimality Theory
Phonological theory (all study levels)
IPA : place and manner of articulation
IPA: phonetic script and pronunciation
Suprasegmentals
VOT and measurements
Specific tutoring for Speech Science students (London Univ.)
SPANISH
Volver: role of mother and daughters relationships
Peribañez y el Comendador de Ocana and the Golden Age Honour Code
Mexican revolutionary art and national identity
La ética franquista en el film Muerte de un Ciclista
The Spanish Civil War and its literary representation
El túnel and the role of the unreliable narrator
El laberinto del Fauno y el cinema hispano-americano
La Celestina, La Cárcel de amor, El libro de Buen Amor
Help with translations and oral exams (DELE)
Cambridge summer revision for new students (Tia Julia, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz,
Edad de Oro, Calderon, Tirso), El Cid, La Celestina, Lazarillo, Lope (2019)
ENGLISH & PHILOSOPHY (A LEVEL AND UNIVERSITY)
Foucault and Bio-surveillance
Descartes: being human
Sartre: Being and nothingness. Existence before Essence
Secondary school syllabus for set texts (Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby)
Shakespeare and Dickens (IB, A level)
Space and Time (mostly second year of a Philosophy course)
Possible Worlds, Paradigm Shifts, Causality (2019)
Animal Rights ethics (2020)