Muthana Makki Mohammedali Department of English LiteratureDoctoral researcher Contact details Emailmmm019@student.bham.ac.uk PhD title: The Poetics of Self-Image in American Poetry Supervisors: Dr Rona Cran and Dr John Fagg PhD English Literature Qualifications Masters in English Literature, University of Baghdad Research The project will investigate the representation of self-image in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roethke, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) and Allen Ginsberg. It will focus on works that deal with perception of the self in different states of mind.