Postgraduate Supervision
I currently supervise the following doctoral students:
Charlotte Spear (co-supervised with Paulo de Medeiros), Locating the Human: World-Literature and the Concept of Rights (2021-Present; funded by M4C)
Tyler Ball (co-supervised with Rashmi Varma), The Sea of Stories: Writing Wider Worlds with Indian Ocean Literature (2021-Present)
Mohammad Javanmard (co-supervised with Paulo de Medeiros), Globalisation of Suppression and Resistance: Allegories of a Global Collectivity in Contemporary World-Literature (2022-Present; funded by Chancellor's International Scholarship)
Xueyi Li, The Chinese Presence in Contemporary Chinese Caribbean Literature (2022-Present; funded by the China Scholarship Council)
Ambika Raja (co-supervised with Caitlin Vandertop), No Longer at Home: Tropes of Solastalgia in Contemporary South Asian Literary Narratives (2022-Present; funded by M4C)
Sophie Dungan (co-supervised with Mark Storey), Violent Things: Object Horror in American Fiction and Film 1970-2023 (2024-Present; funded by M4C)
Christian Gurdin (co-supervised with Myka Tucker-Abramson), Legacies of the Long Seventies: A Cultural History of Black Radical Movements Across the Anglo-Caribbean, 1968-1983 (2024-Present; funded by M4C)
Elise Canning (co-supervised with Nick Lawrence), Climate Migration: How Literature from the Periphery of the World System Reveals the Limits of Our Imagination (2024-Present; funded by M4C)
Megan Reddy, Making the World Anew: Maroon Ecologies in Contemporary Caribbean Speculative Fiction (2024-Present)
Hannah Gilman, World-Literary Markets and Latin American Literature (2024-Present)
Completed PhD Supervisions:
Bushra Muhzabeen, Oil and World Literature: Exploitative Labour and Gender Relations in Petro-Capitalist Commodity Frontiers (2020-2024)
Maddie Sinclair, World Literature, the Twenty-First Century Short-Story Cycle and the Politics of Form (2020-2024; funded by a Wolfson Scholarship)
Esthie Hugo, Gender, Race and World-Ecological Literature: Plotting Women’s Work from the Plantation to the Present (2018-2022; funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of the World Literature and Commodity Frontiers research project and by an Oppenheimer International Scholarship)
Amul Gyawali (co-supervised with Pablo Mukherjee), Building States of Nature: Environment-Making Genealogies in South Asian Writing (2018-2022; funded by the Chancellor's International Scholarship)
Natasha Bondre (co-supervised with Paulo de Medeiros), Petro-Capitalism, Oil Culture and Literature in the Expanded Caribbean (2016-2020; funded by a Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies PhD fellowship)
Eva Donnelly (co-supervised with Pia Christensen), Education and Caribbean Identity (2009-2012)