Doctoral researchers in English Literature

PhD title: Hay Festival and Reading in the Digital Age
Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Roach and Professor Alexandra Harris
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Staging Women: Masochean Masochism and Female Agency in Restoration Comedy 1670–1700
Supervisors: Professor Gillian Wright, Dr Jennie Challinor and Dr Sebastian Mitchell
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Assessing the Representation and Role of Racial Diversity in Children’s Picturebooks
Supervisors: Dr Emily Wingfield and Dr Nicola Smith
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Bodies, Consumption and Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Western Literature 
Supervisors: Dr Eleanor Dobson and Dr Jimmy Packham  
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Noisy Midcentury: Auditory Form and Literary Modernism after 1939
Supervisors: Professor David James and Dr Nathan Waddell
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Digital Humanities and Postphenomenology
Supervisors: Dr Matthew Hayler, Dr Rosie Graham and Professor Jack Grieve

PhD English Literature

PhD title: The publications of police detectives 1880 - 1930: Genre, identity and the consumption of crime
Supervisors: Dr Rex Ferguson, Dr Melissa Dickson and Dr Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)

PhD English Literature

PhD title: Queering the Soul: Sexuality and Self-Construction in Victorian Poetry
Supervisors: Professor John Holmes, Professor Rebecca Mitchell and Dr Ross Forman (University of Warwick)
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Queering the romance: an exploration of queerness in romance novels of the twenty-first century
Supervisors: Dr Amy Burge and Dr Deborah Longworth
PhD English Literature

PhD title: From music and dance to poetry and prose: an investigation of musicality in the life and work of Thomas Hardy.
Supervisors: Dr Melissa Dickson, Dr Nathan Waddell and Dr Rebecca Mitchell
PhD English Literature

PhD title: The Sexualisation of Jack the Ripper in Literature and Culture from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Supervisors: Dr Eleanor Dobson and Dr Deborah Longworth
PhD English Literature

PhD title: An Antiquity of Horror: H.P. Lovecraft's Classical Reception
Supervisors: Dr Eleanor Dobson (lead) and Dr Rona Cran
PhD English Literature

PhD title: ‘A speaking picture’: the Impact and Influence of Visual Culture on the Poetry and Prose of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)
Supervisors: Dr Sheldon Brammall, Dr Tara Hamling, Professor Sarah Knight
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Reading the Grain: The Forestry of Contemporary Literature

Supervisors: Professor Alexandra Harris and Dr Matthew Ward
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Demonic Transformations and Meaning in Nineteenth Century Male-Authored British Gothic Fiction: From the Wanderer to the Self
Supervisors: Dr Jimmy Packham, Dr Eleanor Charlotte Dobson
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality: An Intersectional Reading of Carson McCullers' Works
Supervisors: Dr John Fagg and Dr Rona Cran

PhD title: Remembering the First World War on the British Stage 1919-1939
Supervisors: Dr David Griffith and Professor Deborah Longworth
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Mutations,Manipulation, and Metamorphosis: Representations of Genetic Change and Species Identity in Feminist Long-form Contemporary Science-Fiction Literature, 1987-2018

Supervisors: Professor John Holmes, Dr Matt Hayler and Dr Emil Toescu

PhD Contemporary Transatlantic Science Fiction

PhD title: The Poetics of Self-Image in American Poetry
Supervisors: Dr Rona Cran and Dr John Fagg
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Arabic Astronomy and Christian-Muslim Contact: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetic Dragon and its Reception in Medieval Arthurian Literature
Supervisors: Dr Victoria Flood, Dr Megan Cavell and Dr Emily Wingfield
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Contemporary Literature and Evolving Conceptions of Memory’s Mediative Function
Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Roach and Dr Matt Hayler
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Dwarfs and Dwarfism: Disablism in Medievalist Fantasy
Supervisors: Dr Will Tattersdill and Dr Christina Lee
PhD English Literature

PhD title: No longer ‘unwritten’ forms: British traditional folk music and the archive
Supervisors: Dr Philippa Semper and Dr Simon Smith
PhD English Literature

PhD title: The Art of Medicina: Popular Medicine and Popular Literature in Late Medieval and Shakespearean England. 
Supervisors: Dr Vicky Flood and Dr Chris Laoutaris 
PhD English Literature

PhD title: "Virtual pastorals": vying ecological systems in post-millennial anglophone poetry
Supervisors: Dr Rona Cran, Dr Dorothy Butchard and Dr Luke Kennard
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Periods of Crisis and the Development of Mirrors-For-Princes
Supervisors: Dr Victoria Flood and Dr Emily Wingfield
PhD English Literature

PhD title: The Metaphysics and Psychology of Freedom of Paradise Lost

Supervisors: Dr Hugh Adlington, Dr Sheldon Brammall and Dr Peter Auger
PhD English Literature

PhD Title:  Influence of the poetics of G. M. Hopkins, Thomas Hardy and W. B. Yates on contemporary ecopoetics
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Hodgson and Dr Matthew Ward
PhD English Literature

PhD title: Breaking the Mask: Exploring Masculinity in the New York School Poets 
Supervisors: Dr Rona Cran, Dr John Fagg and Dr Luke Kennard
PhD English Literature