Literature Postgraduate Research Students
View the profiles of our current literature postgraduate students and learn about their research projects.
Current students
Abigail Hockaday
Doctoral Student in Literature - Abigail’s thesis is entitled ‘A Woman’s Touch: Gender, Affect & The Computer in Twentieth-Century British Science Fiction (1939-1960)’.
Alex Collinson
Doctoral Student in Literature - Alex’s thesis is entitled ‘The Sex Workers' Revolution: Prostitution, Feminism and 'Authentic' Virtue in Women's Writing of the 1790s’
Alice Robinson
Doctoral Student in Literature - Alice’s thesis is entitled ‘'The Vigorous Awakening Spring in That Divinest Climate': Ancient Rome in Percy Shelley's Writing’.
Amelia Joicey
Doctoral Student in Theatre Studies - Amelia’s thesis is entitled ‘Glitter and Glue: Examining the Role of Young People’s Participation at Northern Stage, 1967-2017’.
Andrew Latimer
Doctoral Student in Theatre Studies - Andrew’s thesis is entitled ‘Beyond 'Geordie-rama': Theatre and Performance in North East England, 2017-18’.
Anvita Agrawal
Doctoral Student in Literature - Anvita’s thesis is entitled ‘Cosmopolitan Memory in the World War One Literature of India and Britain’.
Bethany McDonald Shepherd
Doctoral Student in Literature - Bethany’s thesis is entitled ‘Examining and Testing Impact Frameworks in Feminist Theatre for Social Change’.
Caroline Rae
Doctoral Student in Literature - Caroline’s thesis is entitled ‘Uncanny Water: Entangled Bodies of Water in Fictions of the Northern Atlantic Littoral’.
Chiara Pellegrini Giampietro
Doctoral Student in Literature - Chiara’s thesis is entitled ‘Trans Forms: Gender-variant Subjectivity and First-person Narration’.
Dafydd Sinden
Doctoral Student in Literature - Dafydd’s thesis is entitled ‘Forms of Attention during the British Poetry Revival, 1968-1995’.
David O’Hanlon-Alexandra
Doctoral Student in Literature - David’s thesis is entitled ‘Romantic Poet-Critics and the Uses of Genre, 1798-1821’
Eleni Zapra
Doctoral Student in Literature - Eleni’s thesis is entitled ‘Singlehood and the Female Gothic in the Fiction of Kate O’Brien, Barbara Pym, and Antonia White’.
Evie Jeffrey
Doctoral Student in Literature - Evie’s thesis is entitled ‘Accessories to Murder: Objects and Things in the Novels of Agatha Christie’.
Genevieve Johnson-Smith
Doctoral Student in Literature - Genevieve’s thesis is entitled ‘Native Ground. Moses Roper, Fugitive Abolitionist; Emancipatory Activism, Anti-slavery Radicalism and Print Culture in Wales’.
Grainne O’Hare
Doctoral Student in Literature - Grainne’s thesis is entitled ‘Methodist Women in Print 1730-1810’.
Helen King
Doctoral Student in Literature - Helen’s thesis is entitled ‘‘We are the gift of life’: The Political Potential of Childhood Reading in the Work of Beverley Naidoo’.
Juliana Beykirch
Doctoral Student in Literature - Juliana’s thesis is entitled ‘Performing ‘Monstrosity’ on the British Stage, 1630-1740’.
Katheryn Thompson
Doctoral Student in Literature - Katheryn’s thesis is entitled ‘Reciprocity in Marriage Negotiations on the Early Modern Stage’.
Lucy Stone
Doctoral Student in Literature - Lucy’s thesis is entitled ‘Childhood Exile Drawn and Redrawn: Judith Kerr's and Tomi Ungerer's Written and Pictorial Texts from and about the Nazi Era’.
Mabel Mundy
Doctoral Student in Literature - Mabel’s thesis is entitled ‘Queer Reading Processes: Women Readers and Female Homoeroticism in Renaissance Romance’.
Margaret Gray
Doctoral Student in Literature - Margaret’s thesis is entitled ‘The Political Economy of Material Objects: An Analysis of Commerce, Craftsmanship, and Nationhood in Victorian Women’s Travel Writing 1844-1899’.
Oskar Gordon
Doctoral Student in Literature - Oskar’s thesis is entitled ‘Irish Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Ethnography and Transatlantic Literary Culture’.
Phyllis Ramage
Doctoral Student in Literature - Phyllis’s thesis is entitled ‘Neocolonialist Ideologies in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Children's Fiction on Africa’.
Rebecca Jane Francis
Doctoral Student in Literature - Rebecca’s thesis is entitled ‘Reading Children: Popular Print for Children 1799-1890’.
Rebecca Latcham-Ford
Doctoral Student in Literature - Rebecca’s thesis is entitled ‘Travelling to Italy: Italy in the Anglophone Imagination’.
Sami Almutairi
Doctoral Student in Literature - Sami’s thesis is entitled ‘Invisible Protestors: Neo-Orientalist Depictions of the Arab Spring Revolutions in English Narrative’.
Sarah France
Doctoral Student in Literature - Sarah’s thesis is entitled ‘Before the End: Anticipating and Narrating Extinction in 21st-Century American Fiction’.