Current doctoral students

Mohammad JavanmardLink opens in a new windo, 'Literary Constellations; Allegories of Collectivities in the Era of Globalisation' (supervisor: Mike Niblett)

Nicola Hamer, 'Beyond elegy: confronting grief in contemporary ecopoetry' (supervisors: Jonathan Skinner and Fabienne Viala)

Paul Vernell, 'The Poetics of Uneven and Combined Development: Chronotopic Forms in World-Poetry' (supervisor: Nicholas Lawrence)

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

Bernadette Carter, 'Elizabeth Jennings' Incarnational Poetics' (supervisor: Emma Mason)

Completed

2024: Sam Weselowski, 'Metropolitan Frontiers: Vancouver and the Poetics of Urbanization, 1965 – 2013' (supervisors: Myka Tucker-Abramson, Nicholas Lawrence, Jonathan Skinner)

2024: Tom Crompton, 'The Poetics of the Deindustrialising Landscape' (supervisor: Jonathan Skinner)

Sihwa Mun, 'Re-thinking Vegetal Life in Romantic Poetry' (supervisor: Emma Mason)

2022: Mantra Mukim, 'Lyric Failure: Samuel Beckett and the Poetic Form' (supervisor: Daniel Katz)

2021: Leo Bazzurro, 'Poetics of Assemblage: The Experimental Poetry of Juan Luis Martínez' (supervisors: Daniel Katz and Miguel de Beistegui)

2021: Ian Tan, 'Poetry as appropriative proximity: Wallace Stevens, Martin Heidegger and the language of Being' (supervisor: Daniel Katz)

2018: Tania Ganitsky, 'Unworking Poetics: A Dialogue Between Emily Dickinson, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy' (supervisors: Daniel Katz and Miguel de Beistegui)

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

2017: Joseph Shafer, 'Resistances in Bodily Form: Post-1945 American Poetry and D. H. Lawrence' (supervisor: Daniel Katz)

2016: Jack McGowan, 'Slam the Book: The role of performance in contemporary UK poetry' (supervisor: Emma Mason)

2016: George Ttoouli, 'Twentieth Century US Ecopoetics and Serial Poetic Form' (supervisor: Nick Lawrence)

2015: Joanna Rzepa, 'Literary and Theological Modernisms: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Józef Wittlin' (supervisor: Emma Mason)

2014: Sophie Rudland, 'Faith, Feeling and Gender in the Writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake' (supervisor: Emma Mason)

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