English at Leicester
PhD students
| Name | Research title |
|---|---|
| Rawan Alnefaee | Composing Illness in Charlotte Brontë Gothic Novels |
| Hind Alotaibi | Ecocriticism and Climate Fiction |
| Fatimah Alsaiari | A Corpus-Based Study of Evaluative Adjectives in Institutional Editorials in British Broadsheet and Tabloid Newspapers |
| Sanem Alti | Contemporary Turkish Women’s Writing Through the Motif of the Hymen |
| Elliot Andrews | Mapping the Punch Brotherhood: Methodological Approaches to Networking and Collaboration (1841-1900) |
| David Andrino | The Utilitarian Illusion of Progress: A Study of Individual Action in Aldous Huxley’s Satirical Dystopias and his Anti-Utopian Vision for the 21st Century |
| Kirsten Arcadio | Thrown: On Virtual Reality, Surveillance and Dystopia - A Novel and Critical Commentary |
| Rachael Bailey-Gibson | Victorian Lives/Victorian Deaths |
| Joe Bedford | Green, Pleasant and Ours: Challenging 'far-right ecologism' through contemporary environmental fiction |
| Hannah Burden | Reading with the Queen- The Literary Consumption and Contribution of Queen Victoria |
| Nichola Cassé | The Public School in C20th and Contemporary Gay Literature |
| Michelle Dean | A Biographical and Critical Study of the Life and Writings of Clare Melicent Jourdain (1882-1926) |
| Mellissa Flowerdew-Clarke | The 27 Cult: Boddah’s Law - Terror Management Theory, Cultism, and Mass Suicide |
| Beth Gaylard | None |
| Laura Gilmore | Medievalism in the Supernatural Fiction of M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen |
| Peter Green | Form In The Late Poetry Of J. H. Prynne |
| Florence Heath | Self and Sisterhood: Female Identity and Relationships in the Lives and Writing of the Potter Sisters |
| Kathy Hoyle | The Lost Voices of County Durham: Capturing the working-class voices of the North-East using Oral History as a primary resource for Short Story cycles |
| Sonya Hundal | Documenting through creative fiction, the intergenerational trauma in a South Asian family |
| Jasleen Kandhari | The Female Sikh Superhero: Representing Sikh Socio-Religious Identity, Gender And Culture In Sikh Graphic Narratives |
| Kye Kennedy | The Distant King and Those Who Made Him: A novel and commentary that interrogates the value of character in creating authenticity in historical fiction |
| Esther Kentish | The Story of COVID-19: A Critical Investigation into Novels, Memoirs, Fiction, and Illness Narratives |
| Mathew Lopez-Bland | Anime and Who I Am: A Creative Non-Fiction Collection |
| Amirah Mohiddin | None |
| Chloe Myers | The Mythology of Eos, Dawn-Goddess, and Greek Mythography as Contemporised Literature |
| Viola Nassi | Decolonisation and Depatriarchal Narratives: Violence, Power and Language in Contemporary Chicana Writing on La Malinche |
| Chelsey Pinney | ‘A Theatre of Calamity’: Tracing the carnivalization of sentiment in nineteenth-century sensation literature |
| Catherine Rae | Inside Outsider Poets (a collection of poems plus accompanying commentary) |
| Rob Reeves | Minor Voices - poems about a fragmented society |
| Jessie Reid | Can’t Repeat the Past? Why, of Course You Can!’: Manifestations of the Death Drive in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf |
| Jyoti Saimbi | Pedagogical Chaucer: Chaucer' s works, Didacticism, Astrology and the Supernatural. |
| Carinya Sharples | How do contemporary Guyanese writers of mixed heritage represent, articulate and shape mixedness through their writing? |
| Jane Simmons | Poetry as a medium for autobiographical life-writing in contemporary British women’s poetry, with a collection of original poems |
| Liam Sims | Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755 |
| Annie Taylor | Country House literature and the Colonial Gothic |
| Caro Tomlinson | 'A Life in Borrowed Parents’: A Memoir of a Life in Care and an examination of potential therapeutic benefits of memoir writing and ‘Creative Writing Through Trauma’ workshops in care-experienced people |
| Allison Treese | “And that hawke is for a lady”: Women and Birds in Medieval English Literature |
| Jake Turbill | “The Heeding of George Orwell” – A study into the success of Orwell as a writer of protestation literature |
| Amber Vella | Experiencing Pregnancy in Georgian Britain: Representations and Realities |
| Lisu Wang | Domestic Mobilityand Elizabeth Gaskell as a Victorian Woman Writer |
| Yifan Wang | Investigating the impact of the washback effect of the National College Entrance Examination on English teaching and learning in Chinese secondary schools |
| Lee Wright | The Hum |