Current research students
At York, we have have one of the largest and most diverse PhD communities in the UK, with over 80 registered research students.
Our students undertake wide-ranging research and many of our PhD graduates have transformed their research into monographs.
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How to Become a Refugee: A Collection of Short Stories and Critical Commentary
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Sheaves from Sagaland': Ecomedievalism and the Norse North Atlantic in British Writing (1860-Present)
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Optimam partem elegit': Mary Magdalene in Early Modern Literature and Art
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Mind over Matter: The Body Machine in Fiction of the long Nineteenth Century
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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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Georgian Paper Traces: Women's Stories, Ephemeral Texts and Hidden Objects
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Am I a Victim: Agency and Sex Trafficking Narratives in South Asian Literature
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The sea in Middle English romance and Old Norse-Icelandic fornaldarsögur
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Literary Covers: Secret writing in Cold War spy fiction and film
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The Anglo-Saxon Church in the Nineteenth Century: Anglo-Saxon Religious Prose and Anglican and Anglo-Catholic Writings
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Marvell and the Book of Nature. The reading and misreading of nature in seventeenth-century pastoral
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Can Words Save the World? The Contemporary Pakistani Novel, Human Rights and the Global Literary Marketplace
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Whores, Harlots, and Harlequins: Locating Female Sympathies in 1790s Prostitute Narratives
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Rethinking the Literary Concept of Authorship Through Vladimir Nabokov and W. G. Sebald
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From Racisim to Reelism: Shifting to 'postindian' depictions of Indigeneity in contemporary mainstream film and television.
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Taking Non-White Children and Their Minds: American Education 1860-1920
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I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans': System in the work of William Blake
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Credit and Credibility: Trust-based structures and the transmission of gossip in Jane Austen's adult work.
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Adapting Agatha: Gender, Sexuality and Nation in the Television Adaptions of Agatha Christie, 1976-2022
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Echolalias; or Retrieving Lost Languages in J. M. Coetzee's Post-apartheid Writing
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Contemporary Black British Speculative Fiction, the Afterlives of Empire and Black Futures
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Formal Forces: Mid-Seventeenth Century Women's Poetry and Natural Philosophy
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Autistic Womanhood, Interoception & Connection: Representations of Autistic Women in British and Irish Literature between 2020 and 2023
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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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“Mechanic Art and Elocutionary Science”: Speech Production in British Literature, 1770s-1820s
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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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Writing the South Asian Muslim Terrorist: Politics, Religion and “Terror” Through a Postcolonial Lens
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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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Community of Emotions: Brexit, Contemporary Literature, and Affect
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Empathic Engagement with the Unreliable: A Case Study of Kazuo Ishiguro
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Children and Childhood in Contemporary British Dystopian Fiction, 1992-2021
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Rereading Exoticism: Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in Angela Carter