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
Amy Bella Doran
“They stride like one”: Sibling Relationships in Katherine Mansfield’s Stories of Childhood
Supervisor: Anna Jackson
Calum Jones Harvey
Thesis title to be confirmed
Supervisor: Charles Ferrall
PhD in English Literature
Sarah Brooks
"Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly": Toni Morrison's Healer Women
Supervisors: Anna Jackson and Adam Grener
Pania Ellison
Reading Indigenous Literatures: Māori writers' experiences, interests and priorities
Supervisors: Tina Makereti and Donna Cormack (University of Otago)
Jay Forlong
Climate Change is Weird: Weird Fiction & the Representational Challenges of Climate Change in Literature
Supervisors: Dougal McNeill and Tim Corballis
Sara Hasanat
Pseudo-utopia; Reading Science Fiction as Resistance Literature
Supervisors: Anna Jackson and Dougal McNeill
Austin Haynes
Te Reo Translations of English Literature 1870-1930
Supervisors: Nikki Hessell and Sarah Ross
Mala Hernawati
Oceanic Imaginations in Contemporary Indonesian and New Zealand Fiction: Decolonisation, Maritime Crisis, and Politics of Genre
Supervisors: Adam Grener and Bonnie Etherington
Polly Hoskins
The Female Matrix: Studies in the New Zealand short story from Blanche Baughan to Robin Hyde
Supervisors: Nikki Hessell and Jane Stafford
Lane Lewis
Thesis title to be confirmed
Supervisors: Anna Jackson and Tru Paraha
Ben Nielsen
Thesis title to be confirmed
Supervisor: Anna Jackson
Younes Poorghorbanali
The Adaptations of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Supervisors: Charles Ferrall and Geoff Miles
Henusha Suthesan
Feminine Ferocity and Ecological Psyche: Folklore Reimagined in Asia-Pacific Fiction
Supervisors: Tru Paraha and Bonnie Etherington
Yinqi Zhao
A Rhetoric of Yin & Yang—Into the Mystery of (Un)reliability Interaction
Supervisors: Dougal McNeill and Adam Grener