Current research students
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Excavating the City: The Gothic Impulses of George W. M. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London/The Mysteries of the Court of London
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At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist
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She Who Laughs...The Intersection of Agency and Humour in British Women Writers, 1920-1950
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“My sparkling mutations”: The Limits of Identity in the Kaleidoscopic Fiction of Clarice Lispector
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Fear, threat and dread in Old Norse mythological literature
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Weird Infrastructure: The Weird in the World Literary System
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Work, Shoot; Shoot, Work: Confessional Storytelling and Performer Wellbeing in WWE’s Monopoly Era 2001–2019
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Works of Art
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Secret Histories and Hallowed Halls: Dark Academia, the University, and Contemporary Readership
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Reproducing Myths of Rebellion: Reanimating Frankenstein and Deconstructing the “Human” in Early 21 st Century Literature
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The Ecclesiastical Historiography of the English People: The Anglo-Saxon Church in English History, 1799-1849
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Performing Across Frontiers: The Living Archive of Theatre-Making and the Search for a 'Universal' Language of Theatre in Europe from the late 1970s to the 2000s
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Literary Characterisation and Predictive Processing
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Archbishop Wulfstan (d. 1023) Latin Sermons
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Restrained and Graceful Movements, Grotesque and Futile Efforts: Late-Stage Decadence in the Literary Works of Aubrey Beardsley
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Language politics and linguistic intimacy in the works and lives of multilingual modernist couples
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Taking Non-White Children and Their Minds: American Education 1860-1920
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Credit and Credibility: The Economics of Gossip in Jane Austen's Novels.
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"A Continuous Present"": The Long Sentence as a Novel Response to Contemporary Socio-political Disorder
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Adapting Agatha: Gender, Sexuality and Nation in the Television Adaptions of Agatha Christie, 1976-2022
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Contemporary Black British Speculative Fiction, the Afterlives of Empire and Black Futures
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In “Pursuit of Shadows”: affective clouds in Romantic poetry and landscape painting.
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Troubling Englishness: Spinning “Cottonopolis” in the Mid-Nineteenth Century English Periodical
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Healing the Body and Healing the Land - Environmental Activism and Well-being Practices in Alaska Native Poetry
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Extricating the Work of Flann O;Brien, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan and Pádraic Ó Conaire from Narrative Theory's Normative Realist Assumptions.
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Christiana Swan Sargent: A Window into the Lives and Work of Women Artists in the Wake of the American and French Revolutions
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‘Making Mincemeat’: Abjection and the Queer Politics of Contamination in 21st Century Spectacle Horror Cinema
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“The knowledge of good and evil”: Religion, War, and the Law in Dorothy Sayers' Detective Fiction
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Misrule: A Creative-Critical Study of History, Place and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Eating Bodies, Assembling Selves: Mystic Women, Transformation, and The Uncanny Gastronomic in Contemporary Literature
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To Know, Hope, or Accept: Sublime Bodies in Second Wave Romantic Poetry
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Pre-Raphaelite Keats: Visuality, Gender and Reputation
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Empathic Engagement with the Unreliable: A Case Study of Kazuo Ishiguro
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Reimagined, rejected, removed: Children and Childhood in Contemporary British Dystopian Fiction, 1992-2021
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From Madness to Ghosts: Haunting in Victorian Women's Fiction