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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:
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Title of Thesis |
Supervisors |
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Courtney Salvey |
Engineering and Natural Theology in Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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Jamie Crouse |
Women's Religious Poetry 1840-1850 |
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Ben Heal |
'American Identity and Representation in the Work of Willaim S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles' |
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Jenny Diplacidi |
Feminist Critics and the Gothic Novel |
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Karen Donaghay |
Novel (untitled) |
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Graham English |
Missing People (Novel) |
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Alice Furse |
Novel (untitled) |
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Miriam Gould |
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Irishness and the Vampire in The Nineteenth Century |
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Clive Johnson |
Dickens and Comedy |
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Kate Limond |
Subjects and Objects in teh Fiction of A. S. Byatt |
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Lestari Manggong |
Being Chinese American: Contrapuntal Voices in Seven Works by Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan |
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Fiona Masterson |
Patches, Powder and Paint: Cosmetics in Literature 1790-1820 |
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Monica Mattfield |
Spectacular Masculinity: Visable Centaurs and Virtuous Horsemanship in the British Long Eighteenth Century |
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Romantic Revolutionaries: P. B. Shelley and Dambudzo Marechera |
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Soofia Siddique |
Representations of 1857 |
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MIchael Toomey |
Understanding the Appeal of Apocalyptic Fantasy in Contemporary Fiction |
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Juha Virtanen |
Aesthetic and Cultural Performances of Avant Garde Poetry from 1950-1980 |
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'James Joyce: The geopolitical significance of London and Zurich for Joyce’s aesthetics and politics' |
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The Sibilant: A Novel. |
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Christine Corton |
'Fog in Victorian and Edwardian Culture' |
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Jany Joseph |
Writing the Caribbean Migration to Britain |
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'Be and Seem' the Shaping of Reader and Writer by Material and Textual Production of Women's writing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries' |
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Tara Puri |
'Fabricating the Self: Clothing and Identity in 19th Century Literature' |
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Maria Ridda |
'The mapping of transnational spaces in South Asian migrant writers: Bombay/Mumbai, London and New York. Postcolonial cities. |
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Jill Ridley |
OTHER/self: An Interrogation of Violence and Identity in Algerian Colonial and Postcolonial Literature 1940-2000 |
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Cary Shay |
Language, Land, Lore: A Critical Study of the Poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill |
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Phillip Stevenson |
Robert Louis Stevenson: Identity and Ideology in the Late Victorian Empire |
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Lawrence Tuck |
The books of Margery Kempe. |
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Tom Band |
Shakespeare's contemporaries on the Twentieth Century Stage |
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Blake Brandes |
Rocking the Tower: The Academy Meets the Streets: The Commodification of Global Youth Cultureand the Implications for British and French Postcolonial Youth |
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Clare Coombe |
'Notions of 'image' and 'text' in nineteenth-century literature; searching for the 'real'' |
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The Strand Magazine, the Sherlock Holmes stories and science as a means of social management |
Dr Charlotte Sleigh |
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Judy Dermott |
'Half a Perfect World'. It is an enquiry into the visionary dimension of James Joyce's work. |
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Representations of Bombay-Mumbai in the works of contemporary Indian writers in English (fiction) |
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Andrew Kesson |
John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship |
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Recently Completed Theses |
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'John Ashbery and English Poetry' |
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'Virginia Woolf: Embracing Death' |
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'The Critical Reception of Herman Melville 1846 - 1960' |
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'Botanical Journeys in China: 1840 – 1940' |
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Michael Pronko |
'Dickens and Film, 1910-1940' |
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Stephanie Decouvelaere |
Comparative Study of Maghrebian and Caribbean Migrant Writing |
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Leonard Jeyam |
Countries of the Mind: Landscape and Consciousness in the Poetry of Judith Wright and Wong Phui Nam |
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‘Creating Imaginary Homelands: Bombay Cinema as Narrative Strategy in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie’ |
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Stephanie Rudgard-Redsell |
Representing Needlework in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art |
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'The Public Personage as Protagonist in the Novels of Anthony Burgess' |
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“Banished, Disgraced yet Obstinate: the Politics of Humiliation in J.M. Coetzee’s Novels.” |
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Ovgu Tuzun |
Naipaul's East: The Portrayal of Indian and Non-Arab Muslim Societies in VS Naipaul's Travel Narratives |
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Life in Dickens-World: Reading the Read text |
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'Narrative Counterparts and Enclosed Spaces: Ships and Islands in Conrad's and Melville's Fiction' |
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'For those who have no doorway': Palestinian literature and national consciousness. |
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The Poetry of Physical Labour 1730-1807: The Duckian Tradition |
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Cambridge English After Jacques Derrida, Colin MacCabe and F. R. Leavis |
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National Discourse and Egyptian Women’s Writing: Generational Difference in the Works of Latifa Zayyat and Ahdaf Soueif |
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Ballantine-Perera, Ms J |
Cuba: Representations of a Quest For a Hybrid Identity |
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Boardman, L |
The Best or Worst of All Possible Worlds Wyndham Lewis and neo-classical satire |
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The Imperial Uncanny: mis-orientations and mysteries in writings of colonial spaces |
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Dunworth, F |
Motherhood and Meaning: the Transformation of Tradition and Convention in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama |
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‘Beyond Englishness’: Culture Context in Relation to David Jones’s “In Parenthesis” |
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Fincham, AC |
Dr Doctor Thomas Hardy – Medical Aspects of The Wessex Tradition |
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Burton/Empire Strategies of Appropriation |
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Groth-Seary, A |
‘All that associates, saves’: Hawthorne Biography and Twentieth-Century American Cultural Criticism |
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Kao, Mr W-H |
Inclusions and Exclusions in the Irish Literary Canon in the mid-twentieth Century |
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Linley, Mr K |
‘Sybil’s’ ancestors: politics in the novel, 1820-1840 |
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Mahadawo, K |
Aspects of Caribbean Womanhood in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Joan Riley and Merle Collins |
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Malcolm, G |
Papers Found in a Trunk: A Descriptive Assessment of the Braddon Family Manuscript Archive |
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Rousselot, E |
Re-Writing Women into Canadian History: Margaret Atwood and Anne Hébert |
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