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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The Queer Gardens of Modernism: Violets and Violent Alliances
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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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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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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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Am I a Victim: Agency and Sex Trafficking Narratives in South Asian Literature
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Works of Art
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Secret Histories and Hallowed Halls: Dark Academia and the Contemporary Gothic
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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 Anglo-Saxon Church in the Nineteenth Century: Anglo-Saxon Religious Prose and Anglican and Anglo-Catholic Writings
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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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‘Her corpulent rotundity’: Female Fatness in Georgian Literary and Visual Culture (c.1750—1830)
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Literary Characterisation and Predictive Processing
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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: The Economics of Gossip in Jane Austen's Novels.
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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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Formal Forces: Mid-Seventeenth Century Women's Poetry and Natural Philosophy
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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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“The knowledge of good and evil”: Religion, War, and the Law in Dorothy Sayers' Detective Fiction
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Quiet Queerness in Contemporary Indian Writing (2000 to 2015)
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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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Art as Activism: Ava DuVernay, Black Narratives, and Netflix
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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