PhD student research interests
PhD students in English and American Studies are encouraged to supply pages describing their research. As pages are received they will be added to the list below, together with the working titles or areas of the research.
- Joan Addison
- Arbaayah Ali Termizi ('Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in the Eighteenth Century')
- Burcu Alkan ('Intellectual Heroes and Intellectuality in Social Realist Novel of Twentieth Century World Literature')
- M Letizia Alterno ('A Narrative of India Beyond History: Anti-colonial Resistance and Post-colonial Negotiations in Raja Rao's Works')
- Fran Alverez ('A comparative analysis of the palaeography of the manuscripts containing the bilingual version of the RSB written in England')
- Kate Ash '"Off quhat nacioun art thow?": The Enigma of National Identity in the Middle Ages'
- Elizabeth Aucott ('Interactivity in experimental fiction, hypertext and online gaming environment')
- Anita Auer ('Language standardisation and prescription in the eighteenth century: the subjunctive in English and (Austrian) German')
- Yousef Awad, 'Cartographies of Arab Women Identities: Resistance, Diaspora, and Transnational Feminism'
- Daisy Black
- Alan Boyle ('The Gaelic League, policies of the Irish government in 1922)
- Erinn Campbell ('Rhizomes, Realms and Narrative Strategies in The Canterbury Tales')
- Alison Cort ('Recent and current change in the modal verb')
- Crays Crossen ('There is God and the Devil in Them;' Gender and Sexuality in Post-1800 Werewolf Fiction and Film.)
- Kai-Yeung Fung
- Stephen Gordon
- Stella Halkyard ("Wales and Welshness imagined and represented in visual culture, film and Welsh writing in English, 1936-53")
- Liam Haydon ('"I sing"? Narrative Techniques in Epic Poetry')
- Michael Hazzelby ('Situation Critical: the Situationist International, Herbert Marcuse and Aesthetic Resistance to 1960s Consumer Culture')
- Matthew Helmers
- Jarrod Homer
- Angela Lait ('Work Trauma and Spiritual Recovery: The Search for Solace in Late-Capitalist Literature')
- Chia-Jung Lee (Between Reality and Reflection: Subjectivity as Self and Language as Other)
- Christopher J. Monk ('Sin and Pleasure: Reconstructing Sexual Discourse in Early Medieval England')
- Danielle Nunn-Weinberg ('Clothing and Textile References in Sixteenth-Century Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire Wills and Inventories')
- Tasneem Perry ('Contemporary Resident Sri Lankan Writing: Inherent Hybridity, Enforced Essentialism')
- Rebecca Pohl ('Alternative Constructions of Space and Sexuality in Recent British Fiction: Sexing the Labyrinth')
- Hannah Priest: ('Monstrous Subjectivity in Middle English and Anglo-Norman Verse')
- Muzna Rahman, 'Consuming Fictions: Globalization and the politics of food consumption, production and representation in postcolonial Literature'
- Henry Thompson ('Censorship in Hollywood: 1960- present day')
- Adam White The Literary Clare
- David Wilkinson
- James Smith