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Student nameStudent programmeSupervisor(s)Research
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Harry ActonEnglish and HumanitiesDr Carolyn Burdett'Reading Feeling: The Embodied Reader in D. H. Lawrence's Criticism and Fiction.'
Jennifer Allport-ReidEnglish and Humanities

Professor Sue Wiseman

Interactions between Oral and Literary Culture in the Early Modern Period

Tatum AndersonEnglish and Humanities 

Dr Anna Hartnell

What responsibility does fiction have to tell the truth in a post-truth climate?
Jacob Bard-RosenbergEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Esther LeslieDamaged Subjects of Modernity: Forgetting and Memory in the work of Adorno and Benjamin'
Saskia BarnardEnglish and HumanitiesDr Ana Parejo VadilloModernism’s Fashion Writers
Jane BassettEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Susan WisemanMemory, Elegy and the Politics of Grief
Gordon BatesEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Roger LuckhurstThe Survival of Suggestion: Charles Lloyd Tuckey and British Medical Hypnotism (1888-1914).
Christina BaumEnglish and Humanities

Professor Marina Warner

A Brazilian Tale: Exploring the oral tradition of storytelling and collective memory.
Emily BestEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Joseph BrookerReading Radio: Audio drama as literature
Kayleigh BettertonEnglish and Humanities Dr Ana Parejo VadilloBuilding Collections, Building Communities: Institutional Libraries and Intellectualism in the Long Nineteenth Century
Radha BhatEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Joanne WinningUnderstanding Medical Education through A Comparative study of Ancient Indian and Contemporary Educational methods
Niall BoyceEnglish and HumanitiesDr Gillian WoodsEngland's dreaming: dreams, inwardness, and the self in Renaissance England
Rogelio BragaEnglish and Humanities

Luke Williams

Migration Stories: The Narratives of Filipino Migrants in London
Marianne BrookerEnglish and Humanities

Dr Luisa Calè

"The ‘materials of Method’:
Fugitive Knowledge, Literary Compilation and the Romantic Vade Mecum."

Fiona BuckEnglish and HumanitiesDr Peter FifieldPoetics of silence: the voices and performance of the modernist salon, and their relevance to contemporary outlets for the poetic voice
George CamillerEnglish and Humanities

Dr Mike Bintley

The Element of Performance in the Bayeux Tapestry
Valentine CarterEnglish and HumanitiesJulia BellMemory and Myth: the many narratives of an emerging self
Kayombo ChingonyiEnglish and Humanities

Dr Steve Willey

Musical Sampling, Literary Allusion, and Performance Praxis in Black Atlantic Poetry
Lee ChristienEnglish and HumanitiesDr Richard HamblynCaptives of classification: unlocking the representations of animals from the Daily Occurences, library and cages of London Zoo
Jessi ClaytonEnglish and HumanitiesDr Katherine AngelRural queer female narratives in both performance practice and queer theory
Betsie CleworthEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Alison FinlayThe Narrative Structure of Landnámabók
Rebecca ClossickEnglish and Humanities Professor Susan WisemanStaging the Concept of the Poor Scholar in Elizabethan England
Claire Cock-StarkeyEnglish and Humanities

Dr David McAllister

'The Folklore of Death, Dying and Funerals in Nineteenth-Century England'?
Janice Cormie
English and HumanitiesDr Mpalive MsiskaContrasts and common ground in US and British crime fiction, 1930s to 1950s: texts, readers, and socio-cultural contexts
Orla Cubitt
English and Humanities

Dr Grace Halden

Decreation as a Feminist Prerogative
Alan DaveyEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Alison Finlay, Dr Mike BintleyOld Icelandic ‘Skald Þættir’ - Genre, Structure,  Content, Themes and relationship to ‘Skald sagas’
Rhodri DaviesEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Roger LuckhurstA Secular Religion: Pulp Science Fiction and Alien Theologies
Thomas DillonEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Roger LuckhurstWhat is the Exact Nature of the Catastrophe?’: A Cultural History of the Science Fiction New Wave in the UK, 1955-1970
Lily DunnEnglish and Humanities

Julia Bell

Narcissism and the Media of Me: An exploration of modern ideas of the self in contemporary literature
Dickon EdwardsEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Heike Bauer

Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism

Bronac FerranEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Martin EveMediating the Concrete: Hansjörg Mayer as a Poet of Transition
Debbie Field
English and HumanitiesProfessor Joanne WinningThe Rhythm of the Breath
Carol FitzpatrickEnglish and HumanitiesDr Fintan WalshAdapting for performance accounts of British post-colonial migration to Australia
Mischa Foster-PooleEnglish and Humanities

Professor Esther Leslie

Nonsense Versus: Avant-garde poetry's sense-resistance as revolutionary praxis.
Jen GoldingEnglish and HumanitiesDr Gillian WoodsHumour in Earnest in Renaissance Comedy
James GoodwinEnglish and HumanitiesDr Mpalive Msiska'Marooned in search of marronage': Blacksociopoetics in Aime Cesaire and Will Alexander
Natalie GreenwoodEnglish and Humanities

Dr Isabel Davis

Crossing Over: Soul Journeys in late Medieval English Literature, 1370 to 1483.

Lise GroenvoldEnglish and HumanitiesDr Peter FifieldIllness and Authenticity: A Study of Truth and
Form in Contemporary Illness Writing
Louise HortonEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Susan Wiseman`A Dooer of Thy Holie Word': Reforming Women's Writing in Sixteenth Century England
Elizabeth JonesEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Esther Leslie‘What is ‘Anti-Spectacular’ Literature? Reading Alienation in the Contemporary Novel’
Melanie JonesEnglish and HumanitiesDr Katherine Angel

Unfounded Fear: Anxiety and Creativity

Laura KayeEnglish and HumanitiesToby LittWomen and Animals in Literature of the Anthropocene: A Creative and Critical Investigation
Simon KingEnglish and Humanities Professor Esther LeslieTowards a dialogical aesthetics of urban walking: Walking as method in contemporary art practice
Natalie Landaw mottEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Carol WattsGleaning, Leaning and Lean Culture: On Gleanologics
Janette LeafEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Roger LuckhurstLocating the Sympathetic Insect: Cultural Entomology, Egyptology and Emotional Affect in Richard Marsh's The Beetle.
Alexander LeggettEnglish and HumanitiesDr Fintan WalshQuirky Theatrical Practices: Autism, Advocacy and Contemporary Theatre in the UK
Torben LundEnglish and HumanitiesDr Robert ManiuraWhat do portraits reveal about the identity of Early Modern persons?
Professor Susan Wiseman
Natalie MarlowEnglish and HumanitiesDr Richard Hamblyn

‘Such Children for the Water’: a creative-critical exploration of the waterscapes of North Warwickshire.

Melissa MarshEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Susan Wiseman

“Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul." Voicing relationships with God through the biblical Psalms (1530-1690).

Matthew MartinEnglish and HumanitiesDr Emily SeniorNation Language Poetry as Political Resistance in the Caribbean and England
Paul MartinEnglish and HumanitiesJulia BellDeath of an A&R Man: An exploration into the nature and processes of A&R within the music industry through the creative non-fiction forms of memoir, biography and literary collage
Laura MauroEnglish and Humanities

Professor Roger Luckhurst

Wounded Space: Physical manifestations of spatial trauma in postwar British and Japanese horror fiction.

Colm McAuliffeEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Joseph BrookerRupture and Rapture:  The Rise of “French Theory” in Britain, 1960-1975
Tabitha McIntoshEnglish and Humanities

Dr Luisa Calè

White Rascals, Black Mischief: Anecdotes in the Atlantic World, 1788-1865

Linda MillerEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Joanne WinningMedical  Humanities Based, Creative Practice Inspired , Reflection for Health and Social Care Practitioners; Exploring  Novel approaches for  Carer Health and Well -Being
Jennifer MoriartyEnglish and HumanitiesDr Carolyn BurdettSpirits of Modernity: Embodiment and Identity in the Victorian Afterlife
Eleanor MyersonEnglish and Humanities Professor Anthony BaleFrom Mamlūk Syria to Medieval England: Exports, Culture and the Holy Land, 1291-c.1500
Sasha MyersonEnglish and HumanitiesDr Caroline Edwards‘Subjectivity’ - analysing cyberpunk

Zaahida Mariam Nalumoso

SOAS

Dr Mpalive Msiska

Resistance to ‘linguistic conquest’ in Uganda : A study of African language literature produced by women

Mary NewboldEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Esther Leslie

Ideology and Illusion: A Study of Technologies of Vision and the Human Sensorium.

Jeremy NewtonEnglish and HumanitiesDr Carolyn BurdettA Reappraisal of the Works of Henry Arthur Jones
Charlotte NorthallEnglish and Humanities

Julia Bell

`The Textual Body: Wounds as words (a creative exploration of a body restored).

Ezechi OnyerionwuEnglish and HumanitiesDr Mpalive Msiska

The Private and Public Selfs in Atkinson Wokoma’s Diaries: Constructing Self Identity in African Colonial Modernity.

Eleanor PackhamEnglish

Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo

Floating Cities: Civilisation at Sea in the Victorian Imagination

Albert PellicerEnglish and Humanities 

Professor William Rowe

Oscillations Between Text And Sound: A Poetics Of Timbre

Kierri PriceEnglish and HumanitiesDr Isabel DavisThe Body and the Book, England 1350-1600: Manuscripts and Printed Books at Wellcome Collection
Masuda QureshiEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Susan WisemanCelestial Philosophy: Women, poetry, and natural philosophy 1600-1700
Andrew ReganHistory and Classics ResearchProfessor Susan WisemanWorking in History
Jennifer Allport Reid English and HumanitiesProfessor Susan WisemanInteractions between Oral and Literary Culture in the Early Modern Period.
Erin ReillyEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Martin EveTowards an Ethical Culture: Social Responsibility and the Limits of Freedom in Contemporary U.S. Literature
Keshia RichardsEnglish and Humanities

Dr Mpalive Msiska

Black. British. Not Urban; the erasure of suburban and rural Black British female experiences in the formation of the contemporary Black British literary canon.

Eleonora RossiEnglish and HumanitiesDr Caroline EdwardsWomanhood, Reproduction, and Spatial Confinement in Contemporary Anglo-American Feminist Dystopias
Frank SayiEnglish and Humanities

Russell Celyn-Jones

Language, violence and Landscape in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins
Genevieve SmartEnglish and Humanities

Professor Jacqueline Rose

Childbirth Beyond Female Gender Identity: Freud and Futurism.

Melanie SocratesEnglish and Humanities Dr Isabel DavisBodies, Books and Middle English Medicine
Robert StearnEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Susan WisemanManaging Skill, 1680–1730: Domestic Service and the Forms of Practical Knowledge.
Jemma StewartEnglish and HumanitiesDr Ana Parejo VadilloSeeing in flowers: Eco-feminism and the Victorian Eco-Gothic
Katie StoneEnglish and HumanitiesDr Caroline EdwardsChildren are the Future: Utopianism and Childhood in Science Fiction and its Criticism
Pauline SuwanbanEnglish and Humanities Dr Katherine AngelPopular Romance and Orientalist Fantasy 1720-1921
Tyla ThackwrayEnglish and Humanities 

Dr Mike Bintley

Reading Early English Literature through a Speculative Lens: Fantasy and Reality in Early Medieval and Soviet-Era Texts.

Ben ThomsonEnglish and HumanitiesDr Stephen Clucas'The Virtue Politics of Cristoforo Landino's Disputationes Camaldulenses
Craig ThomsonEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Roger Luckhurst"Werewolves of London" - Folklore, Popular Culture and the Werewolf in British Gothic Fiction (1830-1914)
Natalia TobinEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Roger LuckhurstJack Womack's Fictions of Rupture: Body, Irony and Capital
George TownsendEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Heike BauerSame river twice: a cultural history of Parson’s Pleasure
Georgina Trevelyan-ClarkEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Anthony BaleEngland’s Jews from Foxe to Prynne (1563 – 1655): physically absent yet mythologically present
Malcolm WhiteEnglish and HumanitiesProfessor Anthony Bale

The role of catchwords in the production, transmission and reception of longer English texts.

Siddharth YadavEnglish and HumanitiesDr Grace HaldenCyberPunk’s Not Dead: Mind and Identity in American Sci-Fi
Bozhena Zoritch
English and HumanitiesProfessor Joanne WinningContemporary cultural discourses and representations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Subjectivity, Agency and Society

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