Literature Postgraduate Research Students

Abigail Hockaday

Doctoral Student in Literature - Abigail’s thesis is entitled ‘Affected Fans, Affecting Communities, Affective Spaces: Genre and Feeling in British Science Fiction Magazines (1930-1960)'

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’.

Anna Marie Hill

Doctoral Student in Literature - Anna's thesis is entitled ‘reproductive politics in the writing of British socialist women in the long fin de siècle’

Anna McCully Stewart

Doctoral Student in Literature - Anna's thesis is entitled ‘Reading Viz magazine: Class, masculinity and protest in North East print culture since Thatcher'.

Anvita Agrawal

Doctoral Student in Literature - Anvita’s thesis is entitled ‘Cosmopolitan Memory in the World War One Literature of India and Britain’.

Bethany McShepherd

Doctoral Student in Literature - Bethany’s thesis is entitled ‘Identifying Creative Social Enterprise models for sustainability of Feminist Theatres for Social Change'

Caroline Gardner

Doctoral Student in Literature - Caroline’s thesis is entitled ‘Anger in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell'.

Charlie Toogood

Doctoral Student in Literature - Charlie’s thesis is entitled 'Wild Landscapes and Wild Subjects: Humankind and the Biosphere in four fin de siècle Utopias’.

Dafydd Sinden

Doctoral Student in Literature - Dafydd’s thesis is entitled ‘Forms of Attention during the British Poetry Revival, 1968-1995’.

Grainne O’Hare

Doctoral Student in Literature - Grainne’s thesis is entitled ‘Methodist Women in Print 1730-1810’.

Iris Kleiman

Doctoral Student in Literature - Iris’s thesis is entitled 'The concept of God in the context of the 12th century’ discovery of “self” in Old English and Middle English language and literature'

Isabel Rolfe

Doctoral Student in Literature - Isabel’s thesis is entitled ‘Modernism and the Psychoanalytic Occult: Exacting the Feminist Revenge Narrative’.

James Inkster

Doctoral Student in Literature - James’s thesis is entitled ‘Self-Preservation: Aging, Extinction and The Fictional Autobiography’.

Jenny Tattersall

Doctoral Student in Literature - Jenny's thesis is entitled ‘Daughters of Dissent, Citizens of the World: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Transatlantic Pedagogy, 1778 – 1861’.

Juliana Beykirch

Doctoral Student in Literature - Juliana’s thesis is entitled ‘Performing ‘Monstrosity’ on the British Stage, 1637-1737’.

Katheryn Thompson

Doctoral Student in Literature - Katheryn’s thesis is entitled ‘Reciprocity in Marriage Negotiations on the Early Modern Stage’.

Liz Sands

Doctoral Student in Literature - Liz's thesis is entitled 'Spectres of Thatcherism: Melancholia and Spaces of Isolation in Contemporary Women’s Writing of the North'.

Lucy Doig

Doctoral Student in Literature - Lucy’s thesis is entitled ‘Open Clasp, Open Archive: Preserving Open Clasp theatre company’s legacy, demonstrating its impact and value, and opening access to its unique archive of feminist theatre for social change’.

Mabel Mundy

Doctoral Student in Literature - Mabel’s thesis is entitled ‘Queer Reading Processes: Women Readers and Female Homoeroticism in Renaissance Romance’.

Maisie Drummond

Doctoral Student in Literature - Maisie’s thesis is entitled ‘Newcastle to New York: Tom Pickard and the Transnational Networks of Late-Modernist Poetry’.

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’.

Matt Ryan

Doctoral Student in Literature - Matt’s thesis is entitled ‘My purse is turnd downeward’: Print and precarity in late-Elizabethan England'.

Murray Gove

Doctoral Student in Literature - Murray’s thesis is entitled ‘Women Prophets, Religion, and Travel in Early Modern England and wider Europe, c. 1600 – 1700’

Oskar Gordon

Doctoral Student in Literature - Oskar’s thesis is entitled ‘Irish Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Ethnography and Transatlantic Literary Culture’.

Rebecca Latcham-Ford

Doctoral Student in Literature - Rebecca’s thesis is entitled ‘Travelling to Italy: Italy in the Anglophone Imagination’.

Sam Bailey

Doctoral Student in Literature - Sam’s thesis is entitled ‘The Erotic Book Trade in England, 1660-1750'

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’.

Shiqing Zhang

Doctoral Student in Literature - Shiqing's thesis is entitled 'Radical YA Fantasy of the Twenty-First Century: The Reshaping of Race and Racial Oppression

Tamzin Mackie

Doctoral Student in Literature - Tamzin’s thesis is entitled ‘Julia Darling's New Vocabularies of Pain: Mapping Body, Gender and Place'.

Vaibhav Parel

Doctoral Student in Literature - Vaibhav’s thesis is entitled ‘The Scene of the Crime: Nationhood and the Postcolonial Contemporary in South Asian Diasporic Crime Fiction’.

Xinyue Hu

Doctoral Student in Literature - Xinyue’s thesis is entitled ‘Re-constructing Mulan: contemporary retellings of the Mulan story in cross-media and cross-cultural contexts.'