Doctoral students

Current doctoral students

Sarah Stewart-Smith, 'In Communion: Faith and common land in the works of Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) and John Clare (1793-1864)'

Ruth-Anne Walbank, 'Nineteenth-Century Hellscapes and Environmental Crisis'

Celia Jarvis, 'Lilias Trotter and the Christian Mystic Visionary: Ways of Seeing' (co-tutelle with Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Université de Pau)

Declan Gillespie, 'The Protruding Void: Mystical Affect in Samuel Beckett’s Prose' (co-supervision with Dan Katz)

Elizabeth Freestone, 'Shakespeare's Extinction: Staging What Has Been Lost' (co-supervision with Erin Sullivan, Shakespeare Institute)

Bernadette Carter, 'Elizabeth Jennings, Mystical Experience, and the Making of Poems'

Supervised to completion

2025: Alex Round, '"Sisters in Art": Reassessing the "Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood"' (co-supervision with Serena Trowbridge and Jonathan Potter, BCU)

2023: Anna Rivers, 'Reality, Relationality, Spectrality: The Mystic Poetry of Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti, and Mathilde Blind'

2018: Maria Cohut, 'Before and Beyond the Glass: Women and their Mirrors in the literature and art of nineteenth-century Britain'

2017: Matthew Rumbold, 'Epic Relation: The Sacred, History, and Late Modernist Aesthetics in Hart Crane, David Jones, and Derek Walcott'

2016: Jack McGowan, 'Slam the Book: The role of performance in contemporary UK poetry'

2015: Joanna Rzepa, 'Literary and Theological Modernisms: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Józef Wittlin'

2014: Sophie Rudland, 'Faith, Feeling and Gender in the Writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake'

2007: Zoe Brigley, 'Exile and Ecology: the Poetic Practice of Gwyneth Lewis, Pascale Petit and Deryn Rees-Jones'