Postgraduate research community
This page includes current MPhil and PhD research students with links to their individual profiles. Our Alumni pages are here.
MPhil and PhD students
| Student |
Supervisor | ||
| Medieval and Early Modern | |||
| Thomasin Bailey |
PhD | Elizabeth Clarke Teresa Grant |
Second generation Sydney Cycle: The sonnets of Lady Mary Wroth and the network of literary collaboration and patronage around Wroth and the Earl of Pembroke |
| Louise Campion | PhD |
Christiania Whitehead | Devotional Domesticity in Middle English Religious Texts |
| Robert Daniel |
PhD | Elizabeth Clarke | “Teach me, O Lord, this sacred art”: Puritan Modes of Writing in the Poetry of Thomas St Nicholas. |
| David Fletcher | PhD | Religion and the Restoration Stage | |
| Liam Lewis | PhD | Translation and Performance Through Animals in Medieval English and French Literature | |
| Katie Smith |
PhD | Elizabeth Clarke Paul Botley |
Ovidian Female-voiced Complaint Poetry in the Early Modern Period |
| Emil Rybczak |
PhD | Teresa Grant | Thomas Johnson and Pirate Printing Practices |
| Sophie Shorland | MPhil | Stephen Purcell |
Early Modern Celebrity Culture |
| Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century |
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| Chi-fang Chen | PhD | Christina Lupton | The 1790s and the comic |
| Maria-Silvia Cohut | PhD | Emma Mason | Before and Beyond the Glass: Women, 'Mirrored' in 1700s and 1800s Literature and Visual Art |
| Rita Dashwood | PhD | Christina Lupton David Taylor |
Women in Residence: Forms of Belonging in Jane Austen |
| Sarah Halford | PhD | Emma Francis | Whiteness in Victorian English fiction |
| Sihwa Mun | PhD | Emma Mason | Rethinking Vegetal Life in Romantic Poetry |
| Chiaki Ohashi | PhD | Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee | Narratives of Displacement: The Refugee Question, Hospitality, and the Victorian Novel |
| Lisa Robertson | PhD | Emma Francis | New and Novel Homes: Women Writing London's Housing, 1880-1918 |
| Joseph Shafer | PhD | Daniel Katz | Resistances in Open-Form: D.H. Lawrence in a New American Poetry |
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Twentieth Century/ |
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| Roxanne Bibizadeh | PhD | Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee Rashmi Varma |
Degrees of Difference: Islam and "Race" in Modern and Contemporary Anglo-Iranian and Anglo-Arab Diasporic Literature |
| Natasha Bondre | MPhil | El excremento del diablo: Petro-capitalism and modern oil-cultures within the expanded Caribbean and Latin America |
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| Karen Borg Cardona | PhD | Failed Quests in World Literature | |
| Lara Choksey |
PhD | Epigenetics, Evolution, and Doris Lessing's space fiction | |
| Siyu Cao | MPhil | Michael Gardiner | Performing Post-Britishness: Quest for Ideological Independence in Contemporary Literature of England |
| Nadeen Dakkak | MPhil | Cathia Jenainati | Literary Depictions of Migrants' Experiences in Arab Gulf Countries |
| Dominic Dean | PhD | Thomas Docherty | The Child and Authority. |
| Roxanne Douglas |
PHD | Cathia Jenainati | Fear and Anger: A Wave in Arab Women's Feminist Writing |
| Ronan Hatfull | PhD | Paul Prescott | The Other RSC: The History and Evolution of the Reduced Shakespeare Company |
| Samantha Horsfield | MPhil | Emma Francis | Magic is Might and the Wicked Witch: A Discussion of Difference and Discrimination in Children’s Fantasy Literature |
| Julie Hudson | PhD | Stephen Purcell Carol Rutter |
The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Cultural Shapeshifter? |
| Demet Intepe | MPhil | Environmental Justice and Writers as Activists in Contemporary Native American and African American Literature | |
| Angus Love | MPhil | Taking Part: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participatory Spectatorship | |
| Jenny Wing Haang Mak | PhD | Rashmi Varma Thomas Docherty |
Narrative and Body in Modern and Comparative World Literature |
| Jack McGowan |
PhD | Emma Mason David Morley |
Slam the Book: The role of performance in contemporary UK poetry |
| Claudio Murgia | PhD | Thomas Docherty | Violence, identity and responsibility in contemporary global fiction |
| Wen Lee Ng | Mhil |
A Psychoanalytic Study on Motherhood and Daughterhood in Chinese American Contemporary Fictions |
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| Leah Phillips |
PhD | Emma Francis Rachel Moseley |
YA Fantasy's Myth (Un)Making: Reconceiving the Adolescent Female Body |
| Qiao Qingquan | PhD | Ross Forman | The image of China in the early 20th century: Dickinson, Russell and Maugham |
| Katja Laug | MPhil | Cormac McCarthy's Mementos of the Broken Body | |
| Matthew Rumbold | PhD | Emma Mason | The Modern Epic: Empire and the Sacred in the works of Hart Crane, David Jones, and Derek Walcott |
| MPhil | Rewriting Victorian Love and Sexuality in Thailand during 1900 - 1935 | ||
| Martin Schauss | PhD | Material Narratives in Samuel Beckett & W.G. Sebald | |
| Jungju Shin | PhD | Dr Ross Forman | "Representation of Asian(American) Masculinity in US and Anglophone Literary and Cultural Texts" |
| Robert Starr | PhD | Elizabeth Barry | Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified': Irish literary responses to the Great War |
| Sita Thomas | PhD | Tony Howard | Multicultural Shakespeare: 1930-2012 |
| Stephanie Tillotson | MPhil | Carol Rutter | The late 20th and early 21st century theatre practice of women playing the traditionally male roles in Shakespeare |
| George Ttoouli | PhD | David Morley Nick Lawrence |
Twentieth Century US Serial Poetic Form and Ecopoetics |
| Freya Verlander | PhD | Liz Barry | Skin(s) in Spectatorship |
| Milly Weaver | PhD | Tina Lupton | Visuality and the Contemporary Novel |
| Di (Dee) Wu | PhD | Ross Forman | The Reciprocal Gaze at the "Exotic" Other: Oscar Wilde and China's Modernisation |
| Christopher Yiannitsaros | PhD | Emma Francis | Deadly Domesticity: Agatha Christie's 'Middlebrow' Gothic, 1930-1970 |
| James Wills | PhD | Mark Storey | Fictions of (in)justice: Interrogating the Lawyer of America's Post-War South |
| Colonial and Postcolonial | |||
| Sourit Bhattacharya | PhD | History, Crisis, and Literary Form: Realism and the Indian Novel 1944 - 1984 | |
| Giulia Champion | MPhil | The Empire Bites Back: Literary Cannibalism in African, Caribbean and South American Rewritings of the 'Western Literary Canon'. | |
| Christine Emmett | MPhil | Neil Lazarus | Politics of racism, rivalry and (dis)identification in South African literature: Re-reading apartheid from Millin to Wicomb |
| Fiona Farnsworth | MPhil | Neil Lazarus | Education, Authority, Opportunity: West African Women’s Writing in the World Post-1980 |
| Gurpreet Kaur | PhD | Rashmi Varma | Women and Environment: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism in Indian Novels in English |
| Divya Rao | PhD | Who Can Represent the Dalit? Reframing Dalit Literary Criticism through the Lens of 'Representation' | |
| Emanuelle Santos |
PhD | Paulo de Medeiros |
Intra-colonial praxis of Portuguese-speaking Africa |
| Madeleine Scherer | PhD | Mnemonic Refiguration: The Graeco-Roman Underworld in Ireland and the Caribbean | |
| Critical and Translation Theory | |||
| Heba Elmasry | PhD | Cathia Jenainati | A Comparative Study of Arthur John Arberry and Desmond O'Grady's Translations of the Seven Mu'allaqat |
| Birgit Breidenbach | PhD | Thomas Docherty Emma Mason |
The Role of Mood in the Literature of Modernity |
| Catherine Charlwood | PhD | Elizabeth Barry | Models of memory: cognition and cultural memory in the versification of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost |
| Kieran Gallagher | PhD | Michael Gardiner | Cultural Materialist Readings of the Contemporary British Social Novel |
| Eddie Shengchi Hsu | PhD | Chantal Wright | Gender and sex in the English translations of selected Taiwanese literary works |
| Monica Martin-Castano | PhD | John Gilmore | AV translations of songs from family and children's films |
| Robert Stock | PhD | Chantal Wright | Giving voice to translation: a new perspective on celebrity translators in the theatre |
| Andrew Stones |
PhD | Signs, Lines, Machines: Deleuze, World Literature and the Writing of the Non-Human |
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