Literature and Languages
Postgraduate Applicants
Recently Completed Theses
(2002- present)
Over the last few years, successfully completed PhDs in the Department of English Studies include the following:
Joseph James Bell
The Phantom of the Opera: Prehistory, Birth and Afterlife
Supervisor: Dr Dale Townshend
2010
Brian Rock
Irish nationalism and postcolonial modernity: the 'minor' literature and authorial selves of Brian O'Nolan
Supervisor: Professor David Richards
2010
Amy Palko
Charting Habitus: Stephen King, the Author-Protagonist and the Field of Literary Production
Supervisor: Dr Adrian Hunter
2009
Daniel Allington
Discourse and the Reception of Literature: Problematising 'Reader Response'
Supervisor: Dr Bethan Benwell
2008
Elizabeth Andrews
Devouring the Gothic: Food and the Gothic Body
Supervisor: Professor Glennis Byron
2008
Andrew Sneddon
Discourses of Race, Place and Nationalism in the Writing of Neil M Gunn
Supervisor: Profesor Rory Watson
2007
Jennifer Bann
Spirit Writing: The Influence of Spiritualism on the Victorian Ghost Story
Superivsor: Professor Glennis Byron
2007
Jessica Dyson
'Staging Legal Authority: Ideas of Law in Caroline Drama'
Supervisor: Professor James Knowles
2007
Jennifer Walters
Magical Revival:Occultism and the Culture of Regeneration in Britain, c 1880-1929
Supervisor: Professor Glennnis Byron
2007
Anne-Marie Doyle
Shakespeare and the Genre of Comedy
Supervisor: Professor John Drakakis
2006
Marilyn Michaud
Republicanism and the American Gothic
Supervisor: Professor Robert Miles
2006
Angela Brüning
Caribbean Connections: Comparing Modern Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Literature, 1950s – Present
Supervisor: Dr. James Procter
2006
Charles Benjamin
Dickens and Freud: A Mutual Encounter with the Double
Supervisor: Professor Robert Miles/Professor Angela Smith
2006
Carole Genz
Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions
Supervisor: Professor Glennis Byron
2005
Benjamin Brabon
Darkness and Distance: Gothic Cartography and the Mapping of Great Britain 1764-1820
Supervisor: Professor Robert Miles
2005
Fiona Darroch
Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry
Supervisor: Professor Angela Smith
2005
Corinne Fowler
Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present
Supervisor: Professor Angela Smith
2005
Eiko Nakano
One or Many: Bergsonian Readings of Katherine Mansfield’s Modernism
Supervisor: Professor Angela Smith
2005
Duncan Robertson
Postmodern Nostalgia in Contemporary British Literature
Supervisor: Professor Rory Watson
2005
Kwasi Otu Darko-Ampen
Scholarly Publishing in Africa: A Case Study of the Policies and Practices of African University Presses
Supervisor: Mr James McCall
2004
Stephanie Genz
Blurring the Binary: Positioning Postfeminist Texts and Contexts
Supervisor: Professor Glennis Byron
2004
Juliet Wightman
Shakespeare and the Language of Violence
Supervisor: Professor John Drakakis
2004
Fiona Chalamanda
Interpretations in Transition: Literature and Political Transition in Malawi and South Africa in the 1990s
Supervisor: Professor Angela Smith
2002
Eric Massie
Stevenson, Conrad, and the Proto-Modernist Novel
Supervisor: Professor Douglas Mack
2002
Christopher Powici
The Wolf and Literature
Supervisor: Professor Rory Watson
2002
Adrian Streete
Calvinism, Subjectivity and Early Modern Drama
Supervisor: Professor John Drakakis
2002