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