Literature Postgraduate Research Students

Abigail Hockaday

Doctoral Student in Literature - Abigail’s thesis is entitled 'Affected Fan(dom)s, Affecting Communities: Women Fans and the Golden Age of British Science Fiction (1950-1960)'.

Anna Marie Hill

Doctoral Student in Literature - Anna's thesis is entitled 'Reproductive Politics in British Socialist Women’s Writing of 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'.

Bethany McShepherd

Doctoral Student in Literature - Bethany’s thesis is entitled 'Value, Economies of Practice, and Business Innovation of Micro-Feminist Applied Theatre Companies in England'

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 'Looking Back into the Future: Environmentalism in the Victorian Utopian Imaginary'.

Dafydd Sinden

Doctoral Student in Literature - Dafydd’s thesis is entitled ‘Forms of Attention during the British Poetry Revival, 1968-2022’.

Florencia Frete

Doctoral Student in Literature - Florencia’s thesis is entitled 'Above and BeyONd: developing and evaluating new approaches to access for Opera North'

Grainne O’Hare

Doctoral Student in Literature - Grainne’s thesis is entitled 'Methodist Women's Writing in Private and Public 1740-1820'.

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 'Reading Interiority and Narrative Spatiality in Modernist Women’s Writings'.

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, 1630-1740’

Katheryn Thompson

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

Liz Sands

Doctoral Student in Literature - Liz's thesis is entitled 'Melancholia, Regression, and Place in British Women’s Writing since 1970'.

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’.

Lucy Lawrence

Doctoral Student in Literature - Lucy’s thesis is entitled 'Art for Earth’s Sake: Green Aestheticism and the Celtic Revival in Late-Victorian Periodicals'

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’.

Matt Ryan

Doctoral Student in Literature - Matt’s thesis is entitled ‘Community Values: Staging Connections in the Late Sixteenth Century Print Trade'

Murray Gove

Doctoral Student in Literature - Murray’s thesis is entitled 'Your daughters shall prophesy': Women Prophets, Religion, and Travel in Early Modern England, Wider Europe and North America, c.1600-1700'.

Niamh Twomey

Doctoral Student in Literature - Niamh’s thesis is entitled ‘“Ease them into sight”: The Women of the New York School'.

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 Social Life of Erotic Books in Eighteenth-century England'

Shiqing Zhang

Doctoral Student in Literature - Shiqing's thesis is entitled 'Radical YA fantasy: Ursula Le Guin and Her Legacy'.

Susie Cochrane

Doctoral Student in Literature - Susie’s thesis is entitled ‘The Power of Music on the Literary Output of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd’.

Tamzin Mackie

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

Tianqi Yang

Doctoral Student in Literature - Tianqi’s thesis is entitled 'Food in Modern Indian Literature from 1947 to the Present Day: Gender, Diaspora, and Caste'.

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 'Activism in Asian American Women’s Girlhood Writings, 1970s to Present'.