Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
William Wordsworth

Postgraduate Study in The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies


Current Research students

Follow the links below for further information about the research students, their research topics, and further interests.

  Research Topic
Ola Abdalkafor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Reading of: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein and Foe

Fahmida Akhter War-based Films of Bangladesh: The Representation and Role of Women
Rizwan Akhtar Postcolonial Literature - female representations of Anita Desai
Wafaa Alfares A Comparative Study:  The Role of Gender in Social Change
Katya Alkhateeb  
Huda Al-Matrafi The Negative Image of the Fictional Arab Woman in Late Twentieth-Century Arab-American Novels
Saul Andreetti The Labyrinthine Quest of Fantastic Literature: a Study of Michael Ende and Jacques Attali
Abdul Atteh  
Amal Audeh

Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy: Anger Personified  

Elizabeth Bailey An American History Rewritten: African American Literature and the Reclamation of a Forgotten Past
Alaa Barhoom The Presentation of Women in Henry James
Vivienne Brough Legacies: The Affects of Ekstasis in International Surrealist Practice
Sophie Cansdale The Anti-hero in American Literature
Elisabeth Collier

Disability, Disfigurement, Deformity and the Grotesque in the novels of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison

Keith Currie Georges Bataille: Excremental Philosopher or Invaluable Literary Theorist
Maria Dalamitrou Modern Poetry and the Necessity of Distance: T.S. Eliot
Philippa Dandy Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Mahmoud Darraj  
Ben Dooley European Filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940s
Laurel Eberle  
Yara El-Masry 'Terrorism': A Rhetoric of Alienation in Contemporary Literature
Rouba Farah Child Abuse in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Drama
Andrew Flory British Travel Writing and Central Asia, 1930 to the Present
Ros Green Grand Masters and Memory Bearers
Iman Hami  
Paul Harper

The Story Less Told: Representation by Female Authors of the American Poor White Working-Class in the Literature of the Inter-War Years

Gael Harvey
Interfaces:  The Politics and Poetics of Feminist Montage
Boshra Hasan Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton: A Comparative and Contrastive Studiy of Confessionalism
Leanne Haynes St Lucia: The Fair Helen of the West Indies
Kishi Hiba  
Teri Hill A study of the creation and re-creation of a "new self" at the expense of the characters' "true self" in the works of Alexandre Dumas and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angela Holmes  
William Houston Angelo Lewis: The Invention of Professor Hoffmann and Modern Magic
James Jarrett Text as Fantasy: Pinter, Freud and the Primal Crime
Ben Jefferson The Voyage In: Derek Walcott as Travel Writer
Joanna Johnson Caribbean Writers and the English Landscape
William Kingsbury The Contested Textual Geography of Afghanistan
Dennis Lewis The Work of W. H. Auden and Derek Walcott
Catherine Luther  
Natasha Mansfield

Existence in Conflict: “Quiet Trauma” in Contemporary Fiction(s) of the Middle East

Richard McGuire Positioned Histories, Confluent Worlds: Seven Comparative Case Studies of Irish and Caribbean Novels in English, 1922 - 1970
Bright Molande Dialogic Narratives in Malawian Writing: Steve Chimombo and his World
Danielle Mortimer Bret Eastern Ellis's Lunar Park, postmodernism, and history
Irene Musumeci Responses to 9/11 in Contemporary American Film
Christopher Nawrat  
Ian Orton  
Ben Pestell Fear, justice and political expediency in the Oresteia of Aeschylus
Sawsan Qashgari Falkner and the representation of women
Sobia Quazi Absence and the Spectral Figure in Gothic Literature and Film
Chiara Reghellin

The daimonic in C. G. Jung and W. B. Yeats: search for meaning and wholeness

Vivien Sá An English Adventure in the New World: Anthony Knivet in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Mayowa Saja Wole Soyinka's Plays
Emma Saggers Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
Stephanie Savva "Enosis and only Enosis" A writer's reflections on the cultures of nationalism in Cyprus 1955-1959
Sean Seeger

Homer’s Heirs: Modernity, Myth, and the Contestation of History

Rosella Simonari

Relationship Between Dance and Culture in Martha Graham's Letter to the World

James Stannard  
Anthony Tackling Time, Place and Space: A Comparison of Pound's Cantos, Williams' Paterson and Olson's Maximus
Ian Tucker  
Muhramalnessa Turkistani From Fragmentation to Integration: Schizophrenia, Dreams, and Reintegrative Strategies in Selected Novels by Doris Lessing.
Mariya Ustymenko American Women Poets and the Quest for Self-Identity
Heidi Wilkins

A Feminist Analysis of Sound in American Cinema

Anthony Wood The psychological dynamics of power and loss in the mythic chronotope of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
Penny Woollard Derek Walcott's Americas
Grace Yang British Women's Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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