Postgraduate Research Students

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Sahar Ahmadi, Supervisors: Mike Niblett

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Tyler Ball, Writing Wider Worlds: An Eco-Ontological Approach to Indian Ocean Literature, Supervisors: Rashmi Varma and Michael Niblett

Janneke Beerman (cotutelle with the University of Curacao), World-literature: Cosmopolitanism in Hybrid Caribbean Novels, Supervisors: Paulo de Medeiros (University of Warwick) and Elisabeth Echteld (University of Curacao)

Will Berrington, The American Millennial Novel: Coming-of-Age from Crash to 'Long Downturn' (2008-2022), Supervisors: Myka Tucker-Abramson and Stephen Shapiro

Simone Blandford, Chicago and the Radical American Novel, Supervisors: Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey

Owain Burrell, The Grammar School Ideal in British Literature 1945-1990, Supervisor: Michael Gardiner

Nadia Backleh,
Supervisors: Paulo De Sousa Aguiar de Medeiros and Graeme Macdonald

Urvie Bhattacharya, Supervisor: Nicholas Lawrence

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Bernadette Carter, Elizabeth Jennings' Incarnational Poetics, Supervisor: Emma Mason

Elise Canning, Supervisors: Mike Niblett and Nicholas Lawrence

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Sophie Dungan, Supervisors: Mike Niblett and Mark Storey

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Lu Feng, Reading Water in the Cities of Jiangnan, Supervisors: Caitlin Vandertop and Anne Gerritsen

Christopher Foley, Supervisor: Nicholas Lawrence

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Mark Gorham, Ideologues United: England's ideology and its relation to the Good in Gothic, Supervisors: Paulo de Medeiros and Jen Baker

Beth Greaves, The Literary and Cultural Imagination of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy from 1976 to 2020, Supervisor: Liz Barry

Christopher Griffin, The Aesthetics of the Secret, 1998-2018, Supervisors: Michael Gardiner (University of Warwick) and Dave Gunning (University of Birmingham)

Declan Gillespie,
Supervisors: Daniel Katz and Emma Mason

Hannah Gillman, Supervisor: Mike Niblett and Caitlin Vandertop

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Nicola Hamer, Beyond elegy: confronting grief in contemporary ecopoetry, Supervisors: Jonathan Skinner and Fabienne Viala

John Hundley, Supervisors: Daniel Katz and Helmut Schmitz

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Mohammad Javanmard, Literary Constellations; Allegories of Collectivities in the Era of Globalisation, Supervisors: Mike Niblett and Paulo de Medeiros

Celia Jarvis-Stalin,Christian devotional experience in nineteenth-century Literature and Art. Supervisor: Emma Mason

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Raad Khair-Allah, A Comparative Study on Contemporary Arab Women Writers, filmmakers and artists in a Transnational Frame, Supervisor: Rashmi Varma

Wayne Kwong,The construction of Hong Kong identities in artistic representations – from literature to beyond. Supervisors: Song-chuan Chen and Ross Forman

Harry Kite, Supervisor: Michael Gardiner

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Xueyi Li, The Chinese Presence in Caribbean Literature, Supervisor: Mike Niblett

Tingxuan Liu, Beyond Solidarity: Rethinking East and Southeast Asia in Contemporary Cosmopolitan Writing, Supervisor: Ross Forman

Shiqing Li, Supervisor: Liz Barry

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Michael Morgan, When Did Capitalist Realism Begin? The literary registration of Capitalist Realism at the turn of the 21st century and its antecedents, Supervisor: Michael Gardiner

Beninio McDonough-Tranza, Supervisor: Ross Forman

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Mariana Nascimento, Pluri-vocality and Alterity: Perceptions of Temporal Disjunction in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema and Literature. Supervisor: Paulo De Sousa Aguiar de Medeiros

Tabina Nicholas-Mirza (Iqbal), Samuel Beckett, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the I, Supervisors: Daniel Katz and Daniele Lorenzini

Ifesinachi Nwadike, Supervisor: Mike Niblett and Jonathan Skinner

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Martin Platais, Crisis and Form in the Contemporary Novel, Supervisors: Rashmi Varma and Nicholas Lawrence

Pim Puapanichya, Supervisors: Ross Forman and Caitlin Vandertop

Pegah Pezeshkighahfarokhi, Supervisors: Graeme Macdonald and Myka Tucker-Abramson and Nicola Pratt

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Ambika Raja, No Longer at Home: Tropes of Solastalgia in Contemporary South Asian Literary Narratives, Supervisors: Rashmi Varna and Caitlin Vandertop

Grace Rhyne, “Your Echo Is Louder Than Your Voice”: Exploring the Literary Link Between Women and Ghosts, Supervisors: Ross Forman and Jen Baker

Ragesree Roy, Mapping the Ecological Subaltern: Hydrofiction, Precarity and the Asian Novel, Supervisors: Rashmi Varma and Caitlin Vandertop

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Aman Sinha, Playing with Identity: Trajectories of Self/Selves within Queer Autobiographies from India and South Africa

Lizzie Smith, The "Environmental Uncanny": Unsettling the Multispecies Encounter in Contemporary Environmental Poetry, Supervisors: Nicholas Lawrence and Jonathan Skinner

Charlotte Spear, Locating the Human: World-Literature and the Concept of Rights, Supervisors: Michael Niblett

Yuning Shu, Supervisor: Stacey Mcdowell

Sarah Stewart-Smith, Supervisor: Emma Mason

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Louisa Toxvaerd Munch, How does nostalgia function in the 21st century and what impact does it have on cultural imagination and critical thinking. Supervisor: Paulo DeMederios

Hua Tan, Supervisor: Michael Gardiner

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Paul Vernell, The Poetics of Uneven and Combined Development, Supervisor: Nicholas Lawrence

Archana Vinod, Supervisor: Myka Tucker-Abramson and Rashmi Varma

Shavena Vigneswara Kumar,
Supervisor: Rashmi Varma

Angel Maria Varghese, Supervisor: Liz Barry

Kalrav Vashishtha, Supervisor: Mike Niblett and Caitlin Vandertop

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Ruth Walbank, Nineteenth-Century Hellscapes and Environmental Crisis, supervisor Emma Mason

Heather Wardlaw,
Supervisors: Liz Barry and Michael Meeuwis

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Yaqian Xu, Middle-aged Body in Contemporary North American Novels, Supervisor: Liz Barry

Juanmo Xu, Supervisor: Daniel Katz

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Jing Zhao, Supervisor: Ross Forman

Xinshuo Zhou, Supervisor: Mike Niblett

Alumni

Our completed PhD candidates, 2010-present.