Current PhD Projects
- Classical and Medieval
- Renaissance Studies
- Eighteenth Century Studies and Romanticism
- Nineteenth Century Studies
- Modern and Contemporary
- Postcolonial Studies
Classical and Medieval
Ellis, Robert, The Plurality of Voices in Ricardian London, supervised by Julia Boffey
Williams, Jane, The Forster Family of Bristol and London, supervised by Julia Boffey
Renaissance Studies
Atty, Judith, The changing status of Latin in Renaissance at the time of Spenser's Translation of the Culex, supervised by Warren Boutcher
Awais-Dean, Natasha, Bejewelled: The Male body and Adornment in Early Modern Europe, supervised by Evelyn Welch
Claxton, Juliet, Early 17th Oriental Century Porcelain in England, supervised by Evelyn Welch
Cowser, Stephen, 'how to live secure': The Politics of Sacred Historiography in Milton's Eikonoklastes and Restoration-era Poetry, supervised by David Colclough
Dandridge, Ross, 'Anti-empiric literature under the early Stuarts', supervised by Warren Boutcher
Diamond, Katherine, Reaping ‘the tenth parte of his charge’: The Queen’s Printer, the Principal Secretary & the Production of The Principall Nauigations (1589), supervised by Jerry Brotton.
Everest, James, Fiat lux: metaphors of light in the seventeenth-century English understanding of science, supervised by Lisa Jardine
Hardman, Karen, A Biographical Account of John Egerton, First Earl of Bridgwater 1630-42, supervised by Lisa Jardine
Hildyard, Daisy, The work of Robert Hooke, supervised by Lisa Jardine
Meshkat, Kurosh, Sir Anthony Sherley's Journey to Persia, 1598 - 1599, supervised by Jerry Brotton.
Mitchell, Peter, Epistolary practice, exchanges and networks in the East India Company, supervised by Jerry Brotton
North, Susan, Reconstructing Underwear in Early Modern England, supervised by Evelyn Welch
Rolfe, Kirsty, Letters of Elizabeth Stuart, supervised by Jerry Brotton
Rotondo, Natalia, Domestic Art, Architecture and Material Culture in Early Modern and Baroque Rome, supervised by Evelyn Welch
Williamson, Elizabeth, Science and its evil twin: the Royal Society, the East India Company and the birth of Empire, supervised by Lisa Jardine
Eighteenth Century Studies and Romanticism
Ashraf, Ammara, Romantic Poetologies: collaboration and synthesis in Anglo-German literature and philosophy 1794 - 1850, supervised by Paul Hamilton
Burden, Mark, Tutors, Students and Courses of Study at the English Dissenting Academies, 1660 - 1720, supervised by Isabel Rivers and David L Wykes.
Chenkin, Jenn, 'Writing for the Bookseller': The Mechanisation of Print in the 18th Century, supervised by Markman Ellis.
Davies, Sam, Daniel Defoe and the languages of report in the early eighteenth century, supervised by Chris Reid
Gildea, Niall, A study of the legacy of Jacques Derrida, supervised by Paul Hamilton
Hunnekuhi, Phillipp, The Life and Life-Writing of Henry Crabb Robinson, supervised by Paul Hamilton
Jones, Peter, The Aesthetic of the London Street: Writing the Urban 1860 - 1930, supervised by Markman Ellis.
Kitching, Megan, Natural order in eighteenth-century philosophical poems, supervised by Anne Janowitz
Sheridan, Claire, Last men and women: Romantic survival narratives, supervised by Andrew Lincoln
Stern, Richard, Protean Madness and the poetry of Smart, Cowper, and Blake: Form, Rhetoric, and Diction, supervised by Chris Reid
Nineteenth Century Studies
Angell, Katherine, The concept of Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Popular Culture, Sam Halliday.
Atkin, Lara, The Imperial Spectacle: Empire, Metropolis and Popular Culture 1880-1914, supervised by Nadia Valman
Bland Botham, Peter, Representations of Masculinity in Yeats Poetry, supervised by Catherine Maxwell
Eyre, Angharad, The rhetoric, narratives and influences of early nineteenth century female missionaries, supervised by Nadia Valman
Lyons, Sara, Women Poets and the Victorian Crisis of Faith, supervised by Catherine Maxwell
O'Neill, Sinead, 'A History of Opera in Performance': Verdi's "Macbeth" from the Glyndebourne Archives, supervised by Margaret Reynolds
Rubin, Mindy, Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, supervised by Nadia Valman
Modern and Contemporary
Bell, Timothy, British Working Class Fiction and Visual Culture, 1955 - 1970, supervised by Suzanne Hobson and Clair Wills
Burley, Alice, 'In Search of One Beginning': The Literary Echoes of Diffusionism in the Inter-War Years, supervised by Michèle Barrett
Brunton, Elizabeth, The Representation of Miscarriage, Still-birth and Neo-Natal Death in Modernist literature, supervised by Michèle Barrett
Levine, Ben, Psychoanalysis and Arthur Miller, supervised by Jacqueline Rose
Poller, Jake, The Place of Mysticism in the Life and Work of Aldous Huxley, supervised by Michèle Barrett.
Quincey-Jones, Steven, 'You are here to kneel/Where prayer has been valid': poetic responses to religious pluralism 1890-1950, supervised by Suzanne Hobson
Solnick, Samuel, Natural Thinking in the Works of Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hil and Derek Mahon, supervised by Peter Howarth
Tokarz, Lukaz, Postmodern Technologies of Obscenity, supervised by Mark Currie
Tyson, Helen, Reading Modernism, supervised by Jacqueline Rose
Walker, Victoria, A Writer's Writer: Anna Kavan (1901 - 1968), supervised by Michèle Barrett.
Willey, Stephen, British Poetry and Performance 1960 - 2008, supervised by Andrea Brady
Postcolonial Studies
Goodwyn, Helena, The Americanisation of W.T. Stead, supervised by Bill Schwarz
Winks, David, Domestic Travel and the Emergence of English Postcolonial Subjectivity in the Wake of Decolonisation, supervised by Suzanne Hobson
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