Project
Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics and Culture PhD Students
Current PhD Students
| Name | Title | Supervisors |
Roxanne Ablett | Collector, Curator, Creator: Nigerian Folktales and their Colonial Appropriation, Feminist Intervention, and Contemporary Reappropriation | |
Paul Adey | ‘I Gave You Power’: The Weaponization of Literary Intertextuality in HipHop Lyricism | Dr Sophy Smith |
Oliver Arnold | The Romantic Supernatural: Environmental, Theological, Personal and Socio-political Destabilization | |
Emre Busse | Role, Class, and ‘Race’ Play in Gay Ethnic Pornography | Prof. firdWendy Shaw |
Ece Bulut | Queering the Child in Indie Film | Dr Francesca Hardy Prof. Martin O’Shaughnessy |
Rebecca (Lauren) Bruce | Travels of the Ancient Egyptian Body: From the Tomb to the Museum | Prof. Tim Youngs |
Neeraj Bunkar | Caste and Rajasthan-based Cinema: Depiction of Dalit Realities in the Cinematic World | |
Victoria Callus | Paper Cuts: Investigating Paper Affect in Contemporary Experimental Literature | Dr Emma Cocker (Fine Art, NTU) |
Drew Collison | Basil Bunting's The Spoils and its legacy | |
Zack Ditch | Locating Regional Cultures of Drag in Medium-Sized English Cities: An Ethnographic Case Study of Nottingham’s Drag Scene | Dr Ellen Wright Prof. Martin O’Shaughnessy |
Annelise Edwards-Daem | A Feminist Figurine: Reclaiming the Doll in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing | Dr Emma Parker |
Laura Ewart | Nottingham Playhouse: A Cultural History and Analysis of its Community Engagement | Barbara Matthews Martin Berry (Head of Participation, Nottingham Playhouse) |
Olivia Foster | Cohabiting with the Environment: An ecocritical examination of environment and place in the works of Emily Dickinson, Sarah Piatt, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorde | |
Patricia Francis | Close Up: A creative-critical intervention in women activists and activist documentary filmmaking | Fiona Maclaren |
Julie Gardner | The Intersection of Fear and Hope in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry and Fiction: A Critical and Creative Study | |
Lucy Grace | Stories in Stones: Mines, Memory and the Geological Imagination in the Anthropocene | |
Helena Hunter | Algae ecologies: scale, temporality and modes of address in contemporary Anthropocene poetry. | Dr Sally Little (ARES, NTU) Dr Jonathan Skinner |
Alexander Jovcic-Sas | Locating Grunow and Oram in the Bauhaus Centenary: parallel canonisation as curatorial practice | Danica Maier (Art & Design, NTU) Sam Thorne |
Tom Lockwood-Moran | Queer Resistance(s): Contemporary Caribbean Communality | Dr Lucy Evans |
Marwa Mustafa | The Language Of Realised Threats In Online Terrorist Manifestos: Exploring A Linguistic Solution To A Global Challenge | Dr Katerina Krulisova |
Purna Chandra Naik | Reading the Rejected: Dirt, Spatiality and Subjectivity in Dalit Literature | |
Allan Njanji | Redocumenting refugee perspectives: Developing visual alternatives to the UK media's representation of refugees and asylum-seekers through creative documentary practices | Lyn Champion Prof. Martin O'Shaughnessy |
Dani-Louise Olver | Contemporary U.S. and Canadian Indigenous School Stories | |
Max Piesley | Rebel Rebel: Politics and Culture in Radical Scottish Publication Networks | |
(Ummay) Ramisha Rafique | The ontology of the British Pakistani Muslim Flâneuse: Decolonisation in British Pakistani Muslim women's writing | |
Margaret Ravenscroft | Creative cultural productions by and of displaced women | |
Lewis Ridgway | Rethinking Secularism: British Muslim Writing in the post-9/11 Era | |
Negar Tahsili | Veiled Bodies, Naked Minds, Resistant Souls: Utilising Interdisciplinary Arts to Decolonise the Image of Iranian Women in Post-revolutionary Cinema | Dr Alissa Clarke Harrier Curtis |
Zeynep Serinaya Winter | Digital Intimate Publics, Yeşilçam Fandom, and Nostalgia for Old Turkey | Dr Marco Bohr (Design & Digital Arts, NTU) |
Robyn Whalley | Richard III’s Afterlife: Adaptation and Heritage | Prof. Deborah Cartmell |
Recent PhD completions
Name | Title | Supervisors |
Sofia Aatkar | ‘Strangers to these shores; strangers to themselves': An Exploration of Anglophone Caribbean-British Travel Writing | Prof. Tim Youngs (DoS) |
Panya Banjoko | The Politics of Poetry in Nottingham and the Role of Activist African Caribbean Writers and Networks from the 1950s to the 1990s | Dr Rory Waterman |
Luke Allerton-Hilton | The Relationship Between Happiness and Capitalism in the Work of Don DeLillo | |
Arwa Almefawaz | Intersecting Factors Shaping Contemporary Black British Female Bodies on Stage | |
Daniel Bilton | Dalit Writing in the 21st Century: Activism and Literary Experimentation in Modern India | |
Richard Bromhall | Realism, Neoliberalism, and Class in Writing in Britain since the 2008 Economic and Financial Crises | Prof. Dominic Head |
Tara Coltman-Patel | Weight Stigma in Britain: The Linguistic Representation of Obesity in Newspapers | |
Hannah Cooper-Smithson | Patterns in Nature: The use of poetic form in contemporary ecopoetry | Prof. Haida Liang (Physics, NTU) Dr Matthew Welton |
Trang Dang | Climate Change and Contemporary Weird Fiction: The Fight for Survival between Humanity and the Natural World in Jeff VanderMeer’s Novels | |
Valentina de Riso | Indigenous Literatures as Pathways Towards Decolonisation, Resurgence and Reconciliation | |
Karen Eckersley | Out of this World: Surrealist Practice and Post-Humanist Ethics in the Writing and Visual Arts of Elizabeth Bishop and Leonora Carrington | |
Lauren Eglen | Women’s Black internationalism in the activist periodical Freedomways | Prof. Peter Ling |
Beth Evans | Publishing Black British Short Stories: The Potential and Place of a Marginalised Form | Dr Corinne Fowler |
Daisy Ferris | Humour and the Feminist Avant-Garde in Modernist Magazines | Dr Sarah Davison |
Ben Haworth | Rogues Gallery: Liminality and the Politics of Power in Early Modern Texts | Dr Peter Kirwan |
Tomos Hughes | Southern Literature, Labour, Capital and the post-Civil War and Reconstruction periods | Dr Anthony Hutchison |
Charlotte Kennedy | The representation of Brexit protest: a corpus assisted discourse analysis of mainstream media | |
Peter Lee | Dialect of a lesser-known variety of English in the East Midlands: Dialect and sociolinguistic variation of Traveller English in the East Midlands | |
Sabrina Moro | Ripped from the Headlines: Sexual Violence and Celebrity Culture in Contemporary US Media | Dr David Woods |
Jean Morris | Promised Lands – A Psycho-social account of statelessness | Prof. Tim Youngs (DoS) |
Martin Parsons | Con-fusing Bodies: Navigating Beyond the New French Extremity with Jean-Luc Nancy | Prof. Martin O'Shaughnessy Dr Francesca Hardy |
Rocio Palomeque Recio | Who’s your Daddy? Intimacy in a Neoliberal Era, and the Sugar Babe Phenomenon | Dr Stephanie Petschick |
Tuesday Shannon Goacher | Poetics of the Spatial Turn: Place Attachment, Economic Instability and Contemporary Poetry | Dr Nick Everett |
Bradley Phipps | Gender and Massive Resistance in the White Citizens Councils | Prof. George Lewis |
Catherine Smith | The Gothic and Shakespeare | |
Iain Spillman | 'The Flashing and Fading of Consciousness in Perception': The Fictional Freud in Literature and Theory | |
Alyson Stoneman | Contemporary Poetry, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding | Dr Henry Chapman |
Lauren Terry | Becoming Plastic: Modernist Poetics, (Neuro)Psychoanalysis, and the Material Object' | |
Scott Weightman | Segregationists’ use of film and media in the US South, 1940s to 1960s | Prof. George Lewis |
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