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We have an active body of Postgraduate Research Students in the School of English, working in areas as diverse as the Irish Literary Canon and Bollywood. Our current students and their projects include:

Name

Title of Thesis

Supervisors

Courtney Salvey

Engineering and Natural Theology in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Dr Sarah Wood

Jamie Crouse

Women's Religious Poetry 1840-1850

Dr Sarah Wood

Ben Heal

'American Identity and Representation in the Work of Willaim S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles'

Prof. David Ayers

Jenny Diplacidi

Feminist Critics and the Gothic Novel

Prof. Donna Landry

Karen Donaghay

Novel (untitled)

Scarlett Thomas

Caroline Rooney

Graham English

Missing People (Novel)

Scarlett Thomas

Dr David Herd

Alice Furse

Novel (untitled)

Scarlett Thomas

Miriam Gould

 

Prof. David Ayers

Sarah Horgan

Irishness and the Vampire in The Nineteenth Century

Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Prof. Malcolm Andrews

Clive Johnson

Dickens and Comedy

Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Kate Limond

Subjects and Objects in teh Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Prof. Jan Montefiore

Lestari Manggong

Being Chinese American: Contrapuntal Voices in Seven Works by Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan

Dr David Stirrup

Fiona Masterson

Patches, Powder and Paint: Cosmetics in Literature 1790-1820

Dr Sarah Moss

Monica Mattfield

Spectacular Masculinity: Visable Centaurs and Virtuous Horsemanship in the British Long Eighteenth Century

Prof. Donna Landry

Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Romantic Revolutionaries: P. B. Shelley and Dambudzo Marechera

Dr Caroline Rooney

Prof. Donna Landry

Soofia Siddique

Representations of 1857

Dr Alex Padamsee

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

MIchael Toomey

Understanding the Appeal of Apocalyptic Fantasy in Contemporary Fiction

Prof. David Ayers

Juha Virtanen

Aesthetic and Cultural Performances of Avant Garde Poetry from 1950-1980

Prof. David Ayers

Eleni Loukopoulou

'James Joyce: The geopolitical significance of London and Zurich for Joyce’s aesthetics and politics'

Prof. David Ayers

Matt Shoard

The Sibilant: A Novel.

Scarlett Thomas

Prof. Jan Montefiore

Christine Corton

'Fog in Victorian and Edwardian Culture'

Prof. Malcolm Andrews

Jany Joseph

Writing the Caribbean Migration to Britain

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Elizabeth Askey

'Be and Seem' the Shaping of Reader and Writer by Material and Textual Production of Women's writing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries'

David Blair

Tara Puri

'Fabricating the Self: Clothing and Identity in 19th Century Literature'

Prof. Rod Edmond

Maria Ridda

'The mapping of transnational spaces in South Asian migrant writers: Bombay/Mumbai, London and New York. Postcolonial cities.

Dr Alex Padamsee

Jill Ridley

OTHER/self: An Interrogation of Violence and Identity in Algerian Colonial and Postcolonial Literature 1940-2000

Dr C Rooney

Cary Shay

Language, Land, Lore: A Critical Study of the Poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

Dr. Jan Montefiore

Phillip Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson: Identity and Ideology in the Late Victorian Empire

Prof. Rod Edmond

Lawrence Tuck

The books of Margery Kempe. 

Prof. Peter Brown

Tom Band

Shakespeare's contemporaries on the Twentieth Century Stage

Dr Marion O'Connor

Blake Brandes

Rocking the Tower: The Academy Meets the Streets: The Commodification of Global Youth Cultureand the Implications for British and French Postcolonial Youth

Dr Caroline Rooney

Clare Coombe

'Notions of 'image' and 'text' in nineteenth-century literature; searching for the 'real''

Dr Sarah Wood

Jonathan Cranfield

The Strand Magazine, the Sherlock Holmes stories and science as a means of social management

Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Dr Charlotte Sleigh

Judy Dermott

'Half a Perfect World'. It is an enquiry into the visionary dimension of James Joyce's work.

Dr Jan Montefiore

Ipshita Ghose

Representations of Bombay-Mumbai in the works of contemporary Indian writers in English (fiction)

Dr Alex Padamsee

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Andrew Kesson

John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship

Dr Catherine Richardson

Recently Completed Theses

Ben Hickman

'John Ashbery and English Poetry'

Dr David Herd

Dorinda Guest

'Virginia Woolf: Embracing Death'

Dr Jan Montefiore

Christine Eastman

'The Critical Reception of Herman Melville 1846 - 1960'

Henry Claridge

Jeffrey Mather

'Botanical Journeys in China: 1840 – 1940'

Prof. Rod Edmond

Michael Pronko

'Dickens and Film, 1910-1940'

Prof. Malcolm Andrews

Stephanie Decouvelaere

Comparative Study of Maghrebian and Caribbean Migrant Writing

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Leonard Jeyam

Countries of the Mind: Landscape and Consciousness in the Poetry of Judith Wright and Wong Phui Nam

Prof. Rod Edmond

Dr. Jan Montefiore

Florian Stadtler

‘Creating Imaginary Homelands: Bombay Cinema as Narrative Strategy in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie’

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Stephanie Rudgard-Redsell

Representing Needlework in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art

Prof. Rod Edmond

Anthony Levings

'The Public Personage as Protagonist in the Novels of Anthony Burgess'

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Hania Nashef

“Banished, Disgraced yet Obstinate: the Politics of Humiliation in J.M. Coetzee’s Novels.”

Dr Caroline Rooney

Ovgu Tuzun

Naipaul's East: The Portrayal of Indian and Non-Arab Muslim Societies in VS Naipaul's Travel Narratives

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Jeremy Clarke

Life in Dickens-World: Reading the Read text

Prof. Malcolm Andrews

Jerome Ensch

'Narrative Counterparts and Enclosed Spaces: Ships and Islands in Conrad's and Melville's Fiction'

Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah

Clemency Schofield

'For those who have no doorway': Palestinian literature and national consciousness.

Dr C Rooney

Steve Van Hagen

The Poetry of Physical Labour 1730-1807: The Duckian Tradition

Prof. Mike Irwin

Denise Jackson

Cambridge English After Jacques Derrida, Colin MacCabe and F. R. Leavis

Dr Sarah Wood

Awadalla, Ms M

National Discourse and Egyptian Women’s Writing: Generational Difference in the Works of Latifa Zayyat and Ahdaf Soueif

Dr C Rooney

Ballantine-Perera, Ms J

Cuba: Representations of a Quest For a Hybrid Identity

Prof CL Innes

Boardman, L

The Best or Worst of All Possible Worlds Wyndham Lewis and neo-classical satire

Dr DS Ayers

Collins, JP

The Imperial Uncanny: mis-orientations and mysteries in writings of colonial spaces

Dr C Rooney

Dunworth, F

Motherhood and Meaning: the Transformation of Tradition and Convention in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Prof CL Innes

Edwards, KV

‘Beyond Englishness’: Culture Context in Relation to David Jones’s “In Parenthesis”

Dr D Ayers / Dr D Herd

Fincham, AC

Dr Doctor Thomas Hardy – Medical Aspects of The Wessex Tradition

Prof R Edmond

Grant, Mr BJ

Burton/Empire Strategies of Appropriation

Prof R Edmond

Groth-Seary, A

‘All that associates, saves’: Hawthorne Biography and Twentieth-Century American Cultural Criticism

Mr H Claridge

Kao, Mr W-H

Inclusions and Exclusions in the Irish Literary Canon in the mid-twentieth Century

Prof CL Innes

Linley, Mr K

‘Sybil’s’ ancestors: politics in the novel, 1820-1840

Prof M Andrews

Mahadawo, K

Aspects of Caribbean Womanhood in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Joan Riley and Merle Collins

Prof A Gurnah

Malcolm, G

Papers Found in a Trunk: A Descriptive Assessment of the Braddon Family Manuscript Archive

Prof M Andrews

Rousselot, E

Re-Writing Women into Canadian History: Margaret Atwood and Anne Hébert

Prof CL Innes