Research is a fundamental area of activity of the department. It is done individually by each lecturer/researcher or in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Cyprus, Universities of France, Switzerland, other countries of the European Union, and the world. As part of the research activity of the department, research programs and collaborations are carried out through bilateral teaching and research contracts. The department often organizes conferences and scientific conferences.

Research interests

Fabienne Baider, Professor of French and Comparative Linguistics and Gender Studies (CV)

  • Lexical semantics, metaphors
  • Critical Discourse Analysis, ideology analysis, political and advertising discourses, hate speech and racism, as well as discriminatory speech practices (criminality discourse), discourse and migration
  • Gender studies, feminist theories
  • Language learning / language teaching / emotional development
  • Sociolinguistics / languages learning / teaching (including analysis of textbooks and classroom interactions)

 

May Chehab, Professor of French and Comparative Literature (CV)

  • European Studies (myth, history, literature, arts, institutions)
  • Comparative Literature (transdisciplinary relations of Literature with Greek ancient thought, scientific discourse, human rights, and the arts)
  • Modern and Contemporary French Literature (poetry, drama, fictions of the Self)

 

Yiannis E. Ioannou, Professor of French and Comparative Literature (CV)

French and comparative literature, 19th and 20th centuries:

  • Surrealism movement
  • The phenomenon of poetic creation
  • Odysseas Elytis’ work and his relations with French literature and thought
  • French poetry from Baudelaire to surrealism
  • Political culture

 

Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Linguistics (CV)

French and comparative linguistic:

  • Morphology
  • Syntax (parts of speech and semantic classes, adverbs, utterance, enunciation, syntactic structures of phrases, syntactic grammar, proposition and transformation theories)
  • Lexicology (lexical semantics, polysemy function, lexical classes, taxonomy and vocabulary classification)
  • Phonetics and phonology
  • Parallel Corpora
  • Neurolinguistics

Didactics:

  • Didactics of French as Foreign Language (pedagogical approaches, grammar, image semiotics, sound and image, new technologies)

 

Panagiotis Christias, Associate Professor of the History of Ideas (CV)

Fields of Competence:

  • Philosophy, Politics and Society
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Enlightenment and Modernity
  • Philosophy and Literature

Fields of Specialization:

  • Plato, Paul, and the Theological Political Problem
  • Classical Political Philosophy & Modern Political Thought
  • History of Philosophy, History of Sociology
  • Economy and Society, Liberalism

 

Iulian Bogdan Toma,Assistant Professor of French Literature (CV)

Research Interests:

  • Modern and contemporary French literature
  • Surrealism
  • European francophone literature and cinema
  • Intellectual history
  • Migration studies
  • Literary theory

 

Christakis Christofi, Lecturer “Arts – Letters – Culture: France – Europe” (CV)

Arts – Literature – Civilisation : France – Europe

  • Theory and literary, artistic and theatre practices
  • European studies (arts, literature & civilisation)
  • 20th century French literature (poetry, theatre, novel)
  • Literature, arts and civilisation (interdisciplinarity)