PhDs celebrate examination success

So far this year, 12 PhD candidates and 1 MPhil candidate have passed their vivas with flying colours, making for a welcome item of January good news. Topics ranged from wastepaper in early modern England to the novels of Frances Burney, and the language of sculpture in the poetry of W. B. Yeats. 

 

Several of our newly-minted Doctors of Literature have already gone on to great things, taking up posts including a Teaching Fellowships at UCL, a Library Research Fellowship at Durham, and and internship to market and promote a new film adaptation of Macbeth.

 

Here is the list in full of our recent PhD successes, testament to the vibrant research culture and excellent supervision here at York. Those interested in following their footsteps can find out more on our Postgraduate study page.

 

• Alexander Alonso, 'The American Muldoon'
• Douglas Battersby, 'Knowing and Feeling in Late Modernist Fiction: Nabokov, Beckett, Banville, Coetzee'
• Emily Bell, 'Changing Representations of Charles Dickens, 1857-1939'
• Melony Bethala, 'Women, Institutions and the Politics of Writing: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Anglophone Irish and Indian Women Poets'
• Jessica Clement, 'Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Dissent, Influence, and Writing Religion, 1690-1740'
• Nikolas Gunn, 'Christianisation and Contact: Reassessing English Loanwords in Old Norse'
• Daisy Johnson, 'The Landscape of Children's Literature: From Garden to World'
• Indrani Karmakar, 'Maternal Fictions: Representations of Motherhood in Indian Women's Writing'
• Christopher Laws, 'James Joyce and His Early Church: The Art of Schism and Heresy'
• Jack Quin, 'W. B. Yeats, Modern Poetry and the Language of Sculpture'
• Anna Reynolds, 'Privy Tokens: Wastepaper in Early Modern England, 1536-1680'
• Duncan Robertson,'Encountering Oceania: Bodies, Health and Disease, 1768-1846'
• Octavia Tam, 'Rebelling against the Tragic Plot: the Novels of Frances Burney'