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
Bradley Aldridge
Thesis title: 'Social Reproduction in the Fiction of Alice Munro'
Supervisors: Dougal McNeil
Alannah Bradbury
Thesis title: 'Desire in Contemporary Women's Literature'
Supervisor:Sarah Ross
Gabrielle de Reus
Thesis title: 'King and Lover: The Figure of Christ in Medieval Religious Poetry'
Supervisor: Peter Whiteford
Rosemary Lowe
Thesis title: 'Beyond Poor Cows and Angry Young Women: Extraordinary Female Voices in the Narratives of Nell Dunn and Shelagh Delaney'
Supervisor: Dougal McNeil
Theressa Malone
Thesis title: 'Digging Into Jetztzeit: Rescuing History with Paul Celan, Seamus Heaney, and Theodor W. Adorno'
Supervisors: Dougal McNeil & Richard Millington (School of Languages and Culture)
Rose Peoples
Thesis title: 'A Law and Literature Analysis of Queen Lili’uokalani's Mele'
Supervisors: Nikki Hessell & Richard Boast (Faculty of Law)
Eden Smith
Thesis title: 'Second Star To The Right: Mapping Witi Ihimaera’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain within the New Zealand queer literary canon'
Supervisor: Dougal McNeil
Brigid Quirke
Thesis title: 'From the river to the sea: Imagining and reimagining in Palestinian resistance poetry'
Supervisor: Dougal McNeil
Johny Wills
Thesis title: 'Gothic Negotiations of the Boundaries of the New Zealand Farm in Settler Literature'
Supervisor: Jane Stafford
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: 'Ethical Representations of Trauma in Young Adult Literature'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Geoff Miles
Pania Ellison
Thesis title: 'Māori Readers and Indigenous Literatures: A Kaupapa Māori Story'
Supervisors: Tina Makereti & Donna Cormack (University of Otago)
Debasree Ghosh
Thesis title: 'Colonial Influence on Indian literary genres for Children'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Charles Ferrall
Fran Kewene
Thesis title: 'How can a kauapapa Māori theatre-based research methodology evaluate what a good life is for non-verbal autistic Māori'
Supervisor: David O'Donnell
Yuanyuan Liang
Thesis title: 'Tribulations and Trials: Trauma in Margaret Mahy's Youth Adult Novels'
Supervisors: Anna Jackson & Geoff Miles
Michael Moore-Jones
Thesis title: 'Looking Distance's Way: A study of cultural internationalism in New Zealand'
Supervisors: Peter Whiteford & Tina Barton (Art History Programme)
Eleanor Toland
Thesis title: 'Kindertotenlieder/Katabasis'
Supervisors: Charles Ferrall & Jane Stafford
Sraddha Venkataraman
Thesis title: 'Expressive Silence in the Poetry of Keats and Clare'
Supervisors: Heidi Thomson & Nikki Hessell