English Literature research students
Get to know our English Literature students and gain an insight into their research.
Students are listed alphabetically under their respective degrees.
MA in English Literature
Charles Broughton
Thesis title: 'Biblical Poetry of 17th Century and Adaptations of Life of Christ'
Supervisor: Geoff Miles
Millie Gogfery
Thesis title: 'Complaining but not Forsaken: Contesting Depictions of Native American Women 1750-1950'
Supervisor: Nikki Hessell
Rosemary Lowe
Thesis title: 'Poor Cows or Angry Young Women?: Female Narrative Voices in the Work of Nell Dunn and Shelagh Delaney'
Supervisor: Dougal McNeil
Paddy O'Sullivan
Thesis title: 'Masculinity in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro'
Supervisor: Adam Grener
Luke Somervell
Supervisor: Sarah Ross
Rhegan Tu'akoi
Thesis title: 'Gendered Nuclear Resistances and Modernities in Pacific Literature'
Supervisors: Jane Stafford & Emalani Case (School of Languages and Culture)
PhD in English Literature
Samira Aziz
Thesis title: 'The Return to History in 21st Century Gothic Fiction'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Charles Ferrall
Patrick Biggs
Thesis title: 'A History of Light Verse'
Supervisors: Harry Ricketts & Heidi Thomson
Talia Crockett
Thesis title: 'The Ethical Representation of Trauma in Young Adult Literature'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Geoff Miles
Debasree Ghosh
Thesis title: 'The Ambiguity Towards the Colonial Project in British and Indian Children's Writing'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Charles Ferrall
Roya Jabarouti
Thesis title: '"With an Ear to the Line": An Auditory Reading of Heaney's Wintering Out'
Supervisors: Marco Sonzogni (School of Languages and Culture) & Peter Whiteford
Catherine Joule
Thesis title: 'The Virtue of the Stereotypical Antagonist in Terry Pratchett’s ‘Witches’ Novels'
Supervisors: Geoff Miles & Harry Ricketts
Yuanyuan Liang
Thesis title: 'Tribulations and Trials: A Study of Trauma in Margaret Mahy's Youth Adult Novels'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Kathryn Walls
Anne-Maree Mills
Thesis title: 'An Adventure of the Imagination: Monte Holcroft, Cultural Nationalism and the Middlebrow in New Zealand 1940-1953'
Supervisors: Mark Williams & Peter Whiteford
Amy Stimson
Thesis title: 'We Lose That We May Find: Fantasy and Defamiliarisation in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien'
Supervisors: Kathryn Walls & Peter Whiteford
Sraddha Venkataraman
Thesis title: 'The Behaviour of Silence in Romantic Poetry'
Supervisors: Heidi Thomson & Nikki Hessell