Creative Writing Postgraduate Research Students

Alison Reid

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Alison’s thesis is entitled 'The Atlantic Ocean and the Law of the Sea: A Creative-Critical Consideration of Form in Place, Environmental and Ocean Writing since 1982'.

Amelia Loulli

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Amelia’s thesis is entitled ‘The Breath Score: On Poetry and the Performance of Form’.

Anita Pati

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Anita’s thesis is entitled 'Ryot: Famine as a Source of Diasporic Unrest: How the Great Odisha Famine 1866 Translates through Colonial Violences into the Diasporic Body'.

Aparna Sivasankar

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Aparna’s thesis is entitled 'Fantasies for the Anthropocene: The Human and Nonhuman in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction from the Global South'.

Ben Page

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Ben’s thesis comprises of a novel entitled ‘Wolf Eats Wolf’ and a critical essay ‘Temporarily Dissolved’.

Daisy Costello

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Daisy’s thesis is entitled 'Glaiky: Crafting an Autistic Voice from the Northumbrian Landscape'

Gillian Fielder

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Gillian’s thesis is entitled 'Saint Cuthbert and the Anthropocene: A New Opus Geminatum for the 21st Century'

Javeria Kausar

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Javeria’s thesis is entitled 'Hypervigilant Second Person; Rethinking Islamophobia in Contemporary Fiction in English'.

John Lish

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - John’s thesis is entitled ‘‘Upon this dreary coast’: Fiction, Romantic Biography, and Byron’s Residence at Seaham Hall’.

Manujya Ghosh

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Manujya’s thesis is entitled 'The End of the World and Other Mundane Things: The Affect of Climate and Apocalypse Warnings'.

Martin Heslop

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Martin’s thesis is entitled ‘Transcribing Environmental Sound: The Acoustics of Post-industrial Space’.

Mary-Jane Holmes

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Mary-Jane’s thesis is entitled 'The Poet’s Version: Strategies of Resistance in Translation and the Un-silencing of the Female Voice'.

Pyae War

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Pyae’s thesis is entitled 'Contemporary Asian Re-imaginings of Jane Austen’s Persuasion through Britain’s Myanmar Diaspora and Beyond'.

Stephanie Lyttle

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Stephanie’s thesis is entitled 'Strange and Marvellous Magic: A Creative and Critical Exploration of the Construction of Bisexuality in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction'.

Stephen Kendall

Doctoral Student in Creative Writing - Stephen’s thesis is based on 'Seventeen Towers and Seven Gates (a collection of poems) + Digging in Gallowgate (a critical study)'.