Our research students
Student name | Student programme | Supervisor(s) | Research title |
Harry Acton | English and Humanities | Dr Carolyn Burdett | 'Reading Feeling: The Embodied Reader in D. H. Lawrence's Criticism and Fiction.' |
Jennifer Allport-Reid | English and Humanities | Interactions between Oral and Literary Culture in the Early Modern Period | |
Tatum Anderson | English and Humanities | What responsibility does fiction have to tell the truth in a post-truth climate? | |
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg | English and Humanities | Professor Esther Leslie | Damaged Subjects of Modernity: Forgetting and Memory in the work of Adorno and Benjamin' |
Saskia Barnard | English and Humanities | Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo | Modernism’s Fashion Writers |
Jane Bassett | English and Humanities | Professor Susan Wiseman | Memory, Elegy and the Politics of Grief |
Gordon Bates | English and Humanities | Professor Roger Luckhurst | The Survival of Suggestion: Charles Lloyd Tuckey and British Medical Hypnotism (1888-1914). |
Christina Baum | English and Humanities | A Brazilian Tale: Exploring the oral tradition of storytelling and collective memory. | |
Emily Best | English and Humanities | Professor Joseph Brooker | Reading Radio: Audio drama as literature |
Kayleigh Betterton | English and Humanities | Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo | Building Collections, Building Communities: Institutional Libraries and Intellectualism in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Radha Bhat | English and Humanities | Professor Joanne Winning | Understanding Medical Education through A Comparative study of Ancient Indian and Contemporary Educational methods |
Niall Boyce | English and Humanities | Dr Gillian Woods | England's dreaming: dreams, inwardness, and the self in Renaissance England |
Rogelio Braga | English and Humanities | Migration Stories: The Narratives of Filipino Migrants in London | |
Marianne Brooker | English and Humanities | "The ‘materials of Method’: | |
Fiona Buck | English and Humanities | Dr Peter Fifield | Poetics of silence: the voices and performance of the modernist salon, and their relevance to contemporary outlets for the poetic voice |
George Camiller | English and Humanities | The Element of Performance in the Bayeux Tapestry | |
Valentine Carter | English and Humanities | Julia Bell | Memory and Myth: the many narratives of an emerging self |
Kayombo Chingonyi | English and Humanities | Musical Sampling, Literary Allusion, and Performance Praxis in Black Atlantic Poetry | |
Lee Christien | English and Humanities | Dr Richard Hamblyn | Captives of classification: unlocking the representations of animals from the Daily Occurences, library and cages of London Zoo |
Jessi Clayton | English and Humanities | Dr Katherine Angel | Rural queer female narratives in both performance practice and queer theory |
Betsie Cleworth | English and Humanities | Professor Alison Finlay | The Narrative Structure of Landnámabók |
Rebecca Clossick | English and Humanities | Professor Susan Wiseman | Staging the Concept of the Poor Scholar in Elizabethan England |
Claire Cock-Starkey | English and Humanities | 'The Folklore of Death, Dying and Funerals in Nineteenth-Century England'? | |
Janice Cormie | English and Humanities | Dr Mpalive Msiska | Contrasts and common ground in US and British crime fiction, 1930s to 1950s: texts, readers, and socio-cultural contexts |
Orla Cubitt | English and Humanities | Decreation as a Feminist Prerogative | |
Alan Davey | English and Humanities | Professor Alison Finlay, Dr Mike Bintley | Old Icelandic ‘Skald Þættir’ - Genre, Structure, Content, Themes and relationship to ‘Skald sagas’ |
Rhodri Davies | English and Humanities | Professor Roger Luckhurst | A Secular Religion: Pulp Science Fiction and Alien Theologies |
Thomas Dillon | English and Humanities | Professor Roger Luckhurst | What is the Exact Nature of the Catastrophe?’: A Cultural History of the Science Fiction New Wave in the UK, 1955-1970 |
Lily Dunn | English and Humanities | Narcissism and the Media of Me: An exploration of modern ideas of the self in contemporary literature | |
Dickon Edwards | English and Humanities | Professor Heike Bauer | Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism |
Bronac Ferran | English and Humanities | Professor Martin Eve | Mediating the Concrete: Hansjörg Mayer as a Poet of Transition |
Debbie Field | English and Humanities | Professor Joanne Winning | The Rhythm of the Breath |
Carol Fitzpatrick | English and Humanities | Dr Fintan Walsh | Adapting for performance accounts of British post-colonial migration to Australia |
Mischa Foster-Poole | English and Humanities | Nonsense Versus: Avant-garde poetry's sense-resistance as revolutionary praxis. | |
Jen Golding | English and Humanities | Dr Gillian Woods | Humour in Earnest in Renaissance Comedy |
James Goodwin | English and Humanities | Dr Mpalive Msiska | 'Marooned in search of marronage': Blacksociopoetics in Aime Cesaire and Will Alexander |
Natalie Greenwood | English and Humanities | Crossing Over: Soul Journeys in late Medieval English Literature, 1370 to 1483. | |
Lise Groenvold | English and Humanities | Dr Peter Fifield | Illness and Authenticity: A Study of Truth and Form in Contemporary Illness Writing |
Louise Horton | English and Humanities | Professor Susan Wiseman | `A Dooer of Thy Holie Word': Reforming Women's Writing in Sixteenth Century England |
Elizabeth Jones | English and Humanities | Professor Esther Leslie | ‘What is ‘Anti-Spectacular’ Literature? Reading Alienation in the Contemporary Novel’ |
Melanie Jones | English and Humanities | Dr Katherine Angel | Unfounded Fear: Anxiety and Creativity |
Laura Kaye | English and Humanities | Toby Litt | Women and Animals in Literature of the Anthropocene: A Creative and Critical Investigation |
Simon King | English and Humanities | Professor Esther Leslie | Towards a dialogical aesthetics of urban walking: Walking as method in contemporary art practice |
Natalie Landaw mott | English and Humanities | Professor Carol Watts | Gleaning, Leaning and Lean Culture: On Gleanologics |
Janette Leaf | English and Humanities | Professor Roger Luckhurst | Locating the Sympathetic Insect: Cultural Entomology, Egyptology and Emotional Affect in Richard Marsh's The Beetle. |
Alexander Leggett | English and Humanities | Dr Fintan Walsh | Quirky Theatrical Practices: Autism, Advocacy and Contemporary Theatre in the UK |
Torben Lund | English and Humanities | Dr Robert Maniura | What do portraits reveal about the identity of Early Modern persons? |
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Natalie Marlow | English and Humanities | Dr Richard Hamblyn | ‘Such Children for the Water’: a creative-critical exploration of the waterscapes of North Warwickshire. |
Melissa Marsh | English and Humanities | Professor 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 Martin | English and Humanities | Dr Emily Senior | Nation Language Poetry as Political Resistance in the Caribbean and England |
Paul Martin | English and Humanities | Julia Bell | Death 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 Mauro | English and Humanities | Wounded Space: Physical manifestations of spatial trauma in postwar British and Japanese horror fiction. | |
Colm McAuliffe | English and Humanities | Professor Joseph Brooker | Rupture and Rapture: The Rise of “French Theory” in Britain, 1960-1975 |
Tabitha McIntosh | English and Humanities | White Rascals, Black Mischief: Anecdotes in the Atlantic World, 1788-1865 | |
Linda Miller | English and Humanities | Professor Joanne Winning | Medical Humanities Based, Creative Practice Inspired , Reflection for Health and Social Care Practitioners; Exploring Novel approaches for Carer Health and Well -Being |
Jennifer Moriarty | English and Humanities | Dr Carolyn Burdett | Spirits of Modernity: Embodiment and Identity in the Victorian Afterlife |
Eleanor Myerson | English and Humanities | Professor Anthony Bale | From Mamlūk Syria to Medieval England: Exports, Culture and the Holy Land, 1291-c.1500 |
Sasha Myerson | English and Humanities | Dr Caroline Edwards | ‘Subjectivity’ - analysing cyberpunk |
Zaahida Mariam Nalumoso | SOAS | Resistance to ‘linguistic conquest’ in Uganda : A study of African language literature produced by women | |
Mary Newbold | English and Humanities | Professor Esther Leslie | Ideology and Illusion: A Study of Technologies of Vision and the Human Sensorium. |
Jeremy Newton | English and Humanities | Dr Carolyn Burdett | A Reappraisal of the Works of Henry Arthur Jones |
Charlotte Northall | English and Humanities | `The Textual Body: Wounds as words (a creative exploration of a body restored). | |
Ezechi Onyerionwu | English and Humanities | Dr Mpalive Msiska | The Private and Public Selfs in Atkinson Wokoma’s Diaries: Constructing Self Identity in African Colonial Modernity. |
Eleanor Packham | English | Floating Cities: Civilisation at Sea in the Victorian Imagination | |
Albert Pellicer | English and Humanities | Oscillations Between Text And Sound: A Poetics Of Timbre | |
Kierri Price | English and Humanities | Dr Isabel Davis | The Body and the Book, England 1350-1600: Manuscripts and Printed Books at Wellcome Collection |
Masuda Qureshi | English and Humanities | Professor Susan Wiseman | Celestial Philosophy: Women, poetry, and natural philosophy 1600-1700 |
Andrew Regan | History and Classics Research | Professor Susan Wiseman | Working in History |
Jennifer Allport Reid | English and Humanities | Professor Susan Wiseman | Interactions between Oral and Literary Culture in the Early Modern Period. |
Erin Reilly | English and Humanities | Professor Martin Eve | Towards an Ethical Culture: Social Responsibility and the Limits of Freedom in Contemporary U.S. Literature |
Keshia Richards | English and Humanities | 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 Rossi | English and Humanities | Dr Caroline Edwards | Womanhood, Reproduction, and Spatial Confinement in Contemporary Anglo-American Feminist Dystopias |
Frank Sayi | English and Humanities | Language, violence and Landscape in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins | |
Genevieve Smart | English and Humanities | Childbirth Beyond Female Gender Identity: Freud and Futurism. | |
Melanie Socrates | English and Humanities | Dr Isabel Davis | Bodies, Books and Middle English Medicine |
Robert Stearn | English and Humanities | Professor Susan Wiseman | Managing Skill, 1680–1730: Domestic Service and the Forms of Practical Knowledge. |
Jemma Stewart | English and Humanities | Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo | Seeing in flowers: Eco-feminism and the Victorian Eco-Gothic |
Katie Stone | English and Humanities | Dr Caroline Edwards | Children are the Future: Utopianism and Childhood in Science Fiction and its Criticism |
Pauline Suwanban | English and Humanities | Dr Katherine Angel | Popular Romance and Orientalist Fantasy 1720-1921 |
Tyla Thackwray | English and Humanities | Reading Early English Literature through a Speculative Lens: Fantasy and Reality in Early Medieval and Soviet-Era Texts. | |
Ben Thomson | English and Humanities | Dr Stephen Clucas | 'The Virtue Politics of Cristoforo Landino's Disputationes Camaldulenses |
Craig Thomson | English and Humanities | Professor Roger Luckhurst | "Werewolves of London" - Folklore, Popular Culture and the Werewolf in British Gothic Fiction (1830-1914) |
Natalia Tobin | English and Humanities | Professor Roger Luckhurst | Jack Womack's Fictions of Rupture: Body, Irony and Capital |
George Townsend | English and Humanities | Professor Heike Bauer | Same river twice: a cultural history of Parson’s Pleasure |
Georgina Trevelyan-Clark | English and Humanities | Professor Anthony Bale | England’s Jews from Foxe to Prynne (1563 – 1655): physically absent yet mythologically present |
Malcolm White | English and Humanities | Professor Anthony Bale | The role of catchwords in the production, transmission and reception of longer English texts. |
Siddharth Yadav | English and Humanities | Dr Grace Halden | CyberPunk’s Not Dead: Mind and Identity in American Sci-Fi |
Bozhena Zoritch | English and Humanities | Professor Joanne Winning | Contemporary cultural discourses and representations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Subjectivity, Agency and Society |