English at Leicester
PhD students
| Name | Research title |
|---|---|
| Dima Abduljabbar | Arab American Women's Poetry of Diaspora, War, and Intimacy |
| Lola Abs Osta | Byron and Music: An Intermedial Study of Lord Byron’s Childe Harold in Nineteenth-century Instrumental Programme Music |
| Maryam Al-Attar | A Linguistics Study and Analysis of the Language of Traditional and Modern Advertising |
| Noora Al-Kaabi | Socio-political Aspects in Framing Narratives of Conflict |
| Alsahira Alkhayer | Belonging in the Age of Global Crisis: Colum McCann |
| Ali Al-Saffar | The Transformation of the 18th Century Concept of Mysticism into the 19th Century Concept of Romanticism |
| Thulfiqar Al-Tahmazi | The Struggle for Power in Iraqi Political Discourse across Mainstream and Social media: Identities, interaction and impoliteness |
| Thamir Az-Zubaidy | Multiculturalism in Australian Contemporary Drama |
| Geraldine Bell | 'Can these bones live?' (Ezekiel 37:3): A literary examination of the dead body |
| Fatima Berot | Pragmatic Function and Frequency of the Discourse Markers Yeʕni, Êsta, Xoi, and Îtr in Spoken Contexts in Central Kurdish |
| Crystal Biggin | Reading and Reviewing the Mid 18th Century English Novel |
| Tyrone Bishop | An investigation into the effect of raising metalinguistic awareness among native English speaking aviation professionals on their perceptions of aviation safety |
| Freya Brooks | The Female Audience of the Manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales |
| Hallat Ebrahim | A Narrative Analysis of Kurdish Conversational Stories |
| Bronwen Edwards | 'What you have to do is remember': Examining the connections between memoirs, biographical and fictional representations of women's experiences in the intelligence services in the Second World War |
| Richard Fallon | Reshaping Dinosaurs: The Popularisation of Extinct Animals in Anglo-American Culture, 1877-1921 |
| Manal Fattah | The Representation of Offspring in the Plays of Bernard Shaw |
| Michelle Fossey | Creative PhD: The Impurity of Glass: A study of fundamentalist belief and memory |
| Peter Francev | Byron and Hermeneutics of Language |
| Nisrin Hairi | An Applied Linguistics Analysis of the Politeness Strategies Used in Email Correspondence between Saudi Arabian Students and Tutors |
| Gwynne Harries | Creative PhD |
| Dorota Horvathova | American Dream in Joyce Carol Oates' Novels |
| Nachanok Hutanan | Representation of Gay Male Adolescent Characters in American YA Fiction 2005-present |
| Michael Joliffe | Italian-American Modernism |
| Theresa Jones | The Sublime, the Numinous and the Mysterium Tremendum: How are these phenomena perceived and experiences in philosophy, literature and theology |
| Miyuki Kamezawa | A Symbolic Economy: a study of the later novels of Thomas Hardy |
| Tomoko Kanda | Intertextuality in Social Problem Narratives: From the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century (Victorian Studies) |
| Sossie Kechichian | The Freudian Hero in Late 19th Century American Short Fiction |
| Thomas Kew | A Literary History of Black British Writing in the Midlands: 1948-2012 |
| Azra Limbada | The Representation of Rape in War in Plays by Refugee Women |
| Kevan Manwaring | Creative PhD |
| Aween Mawlood | Body-Related Idioms in Standard English and Kurdish |
| Jennifer Miller | Dickensian domesticity in nineteenth-century theatrical adaptations of the novels |
| Rebecca Moore | Evelyn Waugh and the Visual Arts |
| André Naffis Sahely | 'Speaking the Unspeakable': A study of the work of Michael Hofmann |
| Dan Powell | Shaping Storyness: developing a preclosural approach to the process of writing short fiction |
| Emma Reddy | Modernism, Paris and the Aesthetics of Light |
| Leighan Renaud | Matrifocal Communities in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction |
| Margriet Schippers | Towards Democracy in England: Mrs Gaskell's lessons in citizenship (Victorian Studies) |
| Dashne Sedeeq | Diachronic Study of English Loan Words in the Central Kurdish Dialect in Media Political Discourse |
| Selcuk Senturk | The Representation of Family in Doris Lessing's Novels |
| Suzi Shimwell | Creative PhD |
| Rebecca Shuttleworth | Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick: women's writing in the Midlands, 1750-1850 |
| Kris Siefken | Negotiating the Labyrinth: The interplay of city and psychology in Dickens' fiction (Victorian Studies) |
| Natasha Stoyce | Theatres of War: An exploration of the experiences of the Scottish Women’s Hospital units in Serbia during the Great War (1914-1918) |
| Robin Styles | Gertrude Stein: The Making of an American |
| Angela Thurstance | The WWI Home Front in Contemporary British Fiction |
| Alice Turner | Dickens' Portrayal of Cockneys |
| Sanne Van Der Schee | Short Diphthongs in Old English |
| Harriet Veale | Words for the Hour: A Study of American Civil War Poetry |
| David Wharton | Creative PhD |
| Joanna Wilson | The Violent Protagonist as a Monstrous Liminal other in 20th Century American Literature |
| Ling Fong Cheryl Wong | The Significance of Suffering During the Years of War 1793-1815 in the Poetry of William Wordsworth |
| Pimalaporn Wongchinsri | A Buddhist Perspective of the Self in Charles Johnson's and Ruth Ozeki's Writings from 1974 to 2016 |
| Rebecca Wright | The Revision of Greek Myth in Contemporary Women’s Writing |
| Maiko Yamamoto | Martineau, Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell (Victorian Studies) |
| Nisreen Yousef | Historical Novels set in the Middle East: The third crusade |