Completed PhD supervisions

Jane Askew (2001) Beyond the Phallus: Towards an Inter-Relational Theory of Dance - Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Susanne Langer (AHRB)

Nida Home Doherty (2002) 'Authenticity' in Education (WPRS) co-supervising with Hilary Minns

Jane Taylor (2002) 'The country at my shoulder': Gender and Belonging in Three Contemporary Women Poets: Jackie Kay, Medbh McGuckian and Michèle Roberts

Sophie Blanch (2005) Around 1929: The International Psychoanalytic Congress, Modernism and the Flight from Femininity (AHRB)

Kelli D. McCartey (2005) Romantic Women's Poetry, Sensibility, Community and Diversity (Mellon Scholarship)

Fenella Coles (2005) Frightful Pleasures: Representations of Lesbian Monsters in Early American Horror (WPRS) co-supervising with Richard Dyer

Lisa Regan (2006) 'Men who are men and women who are women': Fascism, Psychology and Feminist Resistance in the Work of Winifred Holtby (AHRB)

Iris Kleinecke-Bates (2007) Victorian Realities: Representations of the Victorian Era on 1990s British Television (AHRB) co-supervising with Charlotte Brunsden

Elizabeth Ludlow (2009) 'We can but spell a surface history': Christina Rossetti's Biblical Typology (AHRC)

Sherah Wells (2009) 'Another world, its walls are thin': Psychosis, Maternity and Catholicism in the Work of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Colman

Mary Mullen (2011) Anachronistic Forms: Narrative and History in Nineteenth-Century English and Irish Novels (University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral exchange scholar at Warwick 2008-9)

Arina Cirstea (2011) Urban Imaginaries: Mapping Space and Self in the Fiction of Doris Lessing, Michèle Roberts and Sara Maitland (WPRS)

Miho Wako (2012) Figured in Lively Paint: Eastern Decorative Art, English Aestheticism, and Consumer Culture, 1862-1900 (Japanese Government Scholarship) co-supervising with Michael Hatt

Yvonne Reddick (2013) The Genius of the Stream: Ted Hughes and Fluvial Influence, co-supervising with David Morley

Gabrielle Mearns (2013) 'Appropriate Fields of Action': The Female Philanthropist and the Parochial Sphere in Nineteenth Century Literary Culture (AHRC)

Current PhD students 

Mary Addyman, Objects and Collections in Victorian Literature: Exploring Empire and Body (AHRC) co-supervising with Gill Frith

Lara Choksey, Epigenetics, Evolution and Doris Lessing's Space Fiction (Wolfson)

Sarah Halford, Whiteness in Victorian Fiction

Leah Phillips, Shapeshifters: Female Adolescence and the Supernatural

Lisa Robertson, 'A Change in London Address': The Production of the Built Environment in Women's Urban Fiction, 1880-1920 (Chancellor's International)

Emilie Taylor-Brown, Miasmas, Mosquitoes and Microscopes: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935 (Wolfson)

Tian Yi, George Eliot and Female Philanthropy (China Scholarship)

Laura Wood, Reaffirming the Reader in 19th Century Literature (Chancellor's)

Christopher Yiannitsaros, The 'Middlebrow' Gothic of Agatha Christie (AHRC)

My students have proceeded to the British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Sussex tenure), Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at University of Nottingham, University of British Columbia and University of Central Lancashire, and Lectureships at Universities of Birmingham, Liverpool, Surrey, Coventry, Hull, Gloucestershire, Tennessee (Knoxville), Manchester Metropolitan University, Texas Tech University and Chuo University (Japan). Other destinations are a senior advisory role in secondary education, management consultancy, and resumed careers in the NGO sector and the Canadian art world.

Since their inception in 2008, 4 of my supervisees have won Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study Postdoctoral Fellowship.