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Current PhD students
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expired
Current PhD Students 2010/11
| Name | Field of Research |
|---|---|
| Amer Al Taher | Seduction and Resistance in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Novel |
| Nouf Almutairi | Cognitive Disability and Detection in Contemporary Literature |
| Omayyah Al-Shabab | Representations of the Other in Charles Dickens |
| Ruth Ashton | Modes of Parenting in Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| Sandeep Bakshi | Queering (Post)colonial Representations of South Asia (AHRC Funded) |
| Jenny Bloodworth | Clotilde Graves: Journalist and Playwright |
| James Bober | A Thematic Exploration of the Poetry of William Bronk (1918-99) |
| Susan Boettcher | The Journals of Adlard Welby, 1843-56 |
| James Bridges | Sarah Grand and her "New Men": Specifically Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Thomas Hardy and George Bernard Shaw |
| Samantha Briggs | Darwin's Sexual Selection and Aesthetic Theory in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy |
| Ruth Bromiley | From (Wo)man to Man: A Reconsideration of Olive Schreiner's Quest for Equality |
| Anjna Chouhan | Shakespearean Drama in the Victorian period (AHRC Funded) |
| Zoe Enstone | Representations of Nimue and Morgan Le Fay in Arthurian Literature (AHRC Funded) |
| Janette Gilbert | Differentiating Northern Middle English: An Identification of Dialectal Features Specific to Areas of Northern English |
| Gwynne Harries | Creative PhD |
| Ian Higgins | Bored Victorians: A Cultural History of Ennui in the Age of Industry |
| Elizabeth Howard | Modern Literature and Gender Studies |
| Shazia Jagot | The Influence of Perso-Arabian Philosophy on Chaucer's concept of Fin' Amors (Fee Waiver Scholarship) |
| Tomoko Kanda | Intertextuality in Social Problem Narratives: From the end of the Eighteenth-century to the middle of the Nineteenth-century |
| David Knaggs | Creative Writing PhD |
| Irina Kyulanova | A Comparative Study of the Representations of War for and by Young Adults in Contemporary Novels and Memoirs ('University of the Year' Scholarship) |
| Jonathan Leary | Strategic Representations of Childhood and Adolescent Homosexuality |
| Kangqin Li | The Influence of the New Yorker Magazine on John Updike's Early Stories |
| Catherine Malcolmson | Constructing Charles Dickens, 1900-40 (AHRC Funded) |
| Rasha Maqableh | The Orient in James Joyce |
| (Sarrah) Allison Martin | Trading Spaces: Are emerging communicative channels within Facebook, Blogs, and Messageboards resulting in widespread adoption of spelling changes, abbreviated words, and emoticon usage in CMC? |
| Sarah Martin | Identity, Language and Media in Don DeLillo |
| Louise McDonald | Clemence Dane |
| Clare Mendes | Bronte, Eliot and Gaskell: Constructions of Gender in the Mid-Victorian Novel (Victorian Literature Fee Waiver Scholarship) |
| Dania Meryan | Post-Emancipation Resistance in Caribbean Literature |
| Hannah Miodrag | Hybrid Texts: Linguistic and Pictoral Planes |
| André Naffis Sahely | 'Where the Foxes Say Goodnight To Each Other' A Study of the Work of Michael Hofmann (AHRC Funded) |
| Elham Nilchian | A Psychoanalytical Study in English Romantic Poetry and Persian Sufi Poetry |
| Claire O'Callaghan | Sarah Waters |
| Pamela Ormrod | A Re-evaluation of the Novels of Dinah Mulock Craik |
| Nazia Parveen | Aestheticism in Pre-Raphaelitism and Science |
| Ralph Prescott | "Mark Rutherford" |
| Peter Quinn | Representation of the Village from Little Treby to Portmeirion |
| Owen Roberson | The Reception of Satan in Germanic Europe |
| Margriet Schippers | Towards Democracy in England: Mrs. Gaskell's Lessons in Citizenship |
| Chia-Ling She | (Un)grasping Subalterns' Voices: Third-World Women Writers in the Postcolonial Era |
| Kris Siefken | Negotiating the Labyrinth: The Interplay of City and Psychology in Dickens’ Fiction |
| Sonia Suman | Preachers and Pulpit: A Study of the Sermons of Lancelot Andrewes and John Donne (Graduate Teaching Assistant Funding) |
| Kristan Tetens | Representations of Islam in Victorian Drama |
| Sanne Van Der Schee | Short dipthongs in Old English |
| Rory Waterman | Belonging and Estrangement in Contemporary British Poetry (AHRC Funded) |
| Di Wu | Dickens’s Children |
Completed PhDs
| Name | Field of Research |
|---|---|
| Najah Al-Jahdali | Hijazi Idioms of Body Parts: A Study based on Cognitive Semantics |
| Bassel Almasalmeh | Transcending Boundaries: Modern Poetic Responses to the City |
| Glenn Baker | Richard Hooker and Writing God into Polemic and Piety |
| Khadijah Bawazeer | Female Travel Writers as Precursors of Freya Stark |
| Tom Coogan | The Disabled Body: Style, Identity and Life Writing |
| Erika Corradini | Leofric of Exeter and his Lotharingian connections: a Bishop's books, c.1050-72 |
| Halla Diyab | Crossing the Margin: Minorities and Marginality in the Drama of Tennessee Williams |
| Doaa Hamada | Race and Gender in Margaret Walker |
| Natalie Jones | Iconography of Christ in the Christological Middle English lyric (AHRC Funded) |
| Emma Kimberley | Ekphrasis and the Role of Visual Art in Contemporary American Poetry |
| Ed Ruppenthal | Malfunctioning Deities: The Work and Thought of Philip K. Dick |
| Susan Smith | The Cyborg and Future (Fe)Males in Science Fiction (University Scholarship) |
