PhD graduates

Name	Year of award	Thesis title	Supervisor(s)
Doug Battersby	2017	Knowing and Feeling in Late Modernist Fiction	Professor Derek Attridge Professor John Bowen
Melony Bethala	2018	Women, institutions and the politics of writing: A comparative study of contemporary Anglophone Irish and Indian women poets	Dr Claire Chambers Professor Matt Campbell
Hannah Boast	2016	Representations of water in Israeli & Palestinian Literature	Ziad Elmarsafy
Marissa Bolin	2019	Married Women, Law, and the Novel, 1838-1882: Representations of Bigamy, Property Law, Ceremonial Law, Divorce and Separation in the Victorian Novel	Dr Emma Major
Lola Boorman	2020	“Make grammar do”: the institutional and pedagogical impact of grammar on modern and contemporary American literature.	Dr Adam Kelly
Mildrid Bjerke	2015	Interested Disinterest: The Development of the Literature Study Guide	Richard Walsh
Emily Bowles	2018	Changing Representations of Charles Dickens, 1857-1939	Professor John Bowen
Adam Bristow-Smith	2018	The Bildungsroman under Neoliberalism	Dr Adam Kelly
Sarah Cawthorne	2019	The Architectures of Knowledge: Spatial Metaphors in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophical Literature	Dr Helen Smith
Ashim Dutta	2018	Mystic Modernity: Yeats and Tagore	Dr Claire Chambers Professor Matt Campbell
Tom Fletcher	2020	The Representation of Disability in English-language Poetry: British and American Perspectives	Dr Alice Hall Professor Matt Campbell
Fiona Hobbs-Milne	2019	A question of character: censorship and the political courtroom in British writing, 1792-1824	Professor Jon Mee
Antony Huen	2020	Contemporary Poets, the Visual Arts, and Ekphrasis	Professor Hugh Haughton
Daisy Johnson	2018	Representations of space and place in British children's literature	Dr Richard Walsh
Indrani Karmakar	2018	Motherhood, Literature and Society in Indian Women's Writing	Dr Claire Chambers
Ahmed Khaleel	2015	The Poetics of Human Rights: Auden and al-Jawahiri in the 1930s	Ziad Elmarsafy
Jessica Lamothe	2018	Remedies Against Temptations: A Critical Edition of the Four Middle English Versions of William Flete's De Remediis Contra Temptaciones	Professor Linne Mooney
Richard Lukey	2020	Global Novel Time: Liberal Subjectivities, the Chronotope and Globalisation in McEwan, DeLillo and Coetzee	Professor David Attwell
Elly McCausland	2016	Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur in Children's Literature, 1862-1960	Trev Broughton Dr Matthew Townend
Jonathan McGovern	2019	Anti-Sedition Literature in England, 1536-1570	Professor Brian Cummings
Anna Mercer	2017	The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Dr Jim Watt Professor Harriet Guest
Kyra Piperides	2020	‘A place cannot produce poems: it can only not prevent them’: Philip Larkin and northern English poetry	Professor Matthew Campbell
Madeline Potter	2020	Anglican Forms and Difficulties in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill	Dr James Williams Professor Hugh Haughton
Jack Quin	2018	W.B. Yeats, Modernist Poetics and the Language of Sculpture	Professor Matthew Campbell
Joe Rollins	2019	From Apathy to Autonomy: Neoliberalism and American Fiction in the Long Nineties	Dr Adam Kelly
Timothy Rowbotham	2019	Historicity and Fictionality in the Icelandic 'fornaldarsögur'	Professor Elizabeth Tyler Dr Matthew Townend
Daniel South	2019	The Novel and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age	Dr Adam Kelly
Yu-Hua Yen	2018	Narrating Selves: The Narrative Integrity of Fictional Autobiographies	Professor Derek Attridge Dr Richard Walsh
Xin Zhao		Rereading Exoticism: Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in Angela Carter	Dr Bryan Radley