PhD students

Current students

Name	Research Project Title
Rawan Alnefaee	The Brontë Family's Writings About Illness and Recovery
Hannah Burden	Reading with the Queen: The Literary Consumption and Contribution of Queen Victoria
Michelle Dean	The Life and Works of the Jourdain Sisters
Jacqueline Favaloro	Charlotte Brontë and the Power of Faerie
Hayley Flynn	The Dream Debate and the Periodical in the 1860s
Florence Heath	Self and Sisterhood: Female Identity and Relationships in the Lives and Writing of the Potter Sisters
Azza Hussen	What it Means to Dream: Dickens’s Use of Dreams in the Context of Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century Dream Theories
Miyuki Kamezawa	Thomas Hardy and Masculinity
Chelsey Pinney	'A Theatre of Calamity': Tracing the Carnivalization of Sentiment in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Literature
Emma Probett	Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell
Kris Siefken	Negotiating the Labyrinth: The Interplay of City and Psychology in Dickens's Fiction
Lisu Wang	Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Society
Wen-Wei Wu	Empire, Pathology and the Oriental Imagery: On Victorian Narratives of Addiction
Amber Vella	The Pregnant Body in Late Georgian Britain

When I was considering postgraduate study the interdisciplinary nature of Leicester's Victorian Studies Centre greatly appealed to me, including the opportunity to mix modules like 'The Brontës', 'Victorian Society', and 'Evolution and Entropy'. I was also impressed by the Library's extensive collection of Victorian periodicals, representing the Centre's historic interest in nineteenth-century print culture. Throughout my MA and PhD in the Centre, friendly discussions with tutors (and guest speakers on the always fascinating Spring Seminar Series) fleshed out my view both of Victorian culture and of academic careers. Without doubt both the expansive scholarly and career-focused training I received at Leicester were instrumental in making my subsequent application for a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship successful. I am currently completing this Fellowship at the University of Birmingham.

Richard Fallon, past PhD student

Past students

Name	Research title
Mona Albassam	The Politics of the Female Plain Body
Sophie Almond	The Medical Women's Federation, 1879-1948
Ruth Ashton	Disabled Domesticity: Representations of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Derek Ball	Mathematics in George Eliot's Novels
Kathleen L. Bell	The Diaspora of Dickens: Charles Dickens and the Writers of the American South
Rachel Bates (nee Anchor)	Curating the Crimea: The Cultural Afterlife of a Conflict
Danielle Benyon-Payne	The Suicide Question in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction: Representations of Suicide in their Historical, Cultural and Social Contexts
Jenny Bloodworth	Clotilde Graves: Journalist and Playwright
Susan Boettcher	An Edition of the Journals of Adlard Welby, 1843-56
Lisa Coar	'Abandon far all ye who enter here': (Dis)ordering the Male Body, 1800-1910
Anjna Chouhan	Shakespearean Drama in the Victorian Period
Richard Fallon	Reshaping Dinosaurs: The Popularisation of Palaeontology in Anglo-American Culture, 1877-1921. Now published.
Katie Heathman	The Debased Street Music of the Vulgar: Folk Song, the Novel and the City in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain
Tomoko Kanda	The Early Journalism of Eliza Meteyard
Catherine Malcolmson	Constructing Charles Dickens, 1900-1940
Clare Mendes	Representations of the New Woman in the 1890s Woman's Press
Jennifer Miller	Dickensian Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of the Novels
Pamela Ormrod	'An Entirely Different Order of Writer': A Reevaluation of the Novels of Dinah Mulock Craik
Nazia Parveen	Aestheticism in Pre-Raphaelitism and Science
Jonathan Potter	Visuality and Representation in British Fiction 1840-1870
Margriet Schippers	Elizabeth Gaskell, Citizen of the World: Civic Lessons. Now published.
Rebecca Shuttleworth (MPhil)	Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick: Women's Writing in the Midlands 1750-1850
Natasha Stoyce	'Theatres of War': The Experiences of the Serbian Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals During the Great War
Mai Tsumura (MPhil)	Love and Justice: John Ruskin's Theory and Practice of Charity
Tadakazu Suzuki	British Biography and the Science of Selfhood, 1895-1939
Matthew Wale	'The Sympathy of a Crowd': Periodicals and the Practices of Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Now published.