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Literature Film and Theatre Studies
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Research students
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
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Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)
Rebecca Buckle
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Nahida Choudhury
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Ellyn Coe
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
James Everett
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Harry Hughes
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Francesca Medici
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Noah Alfred Pantano
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Ask me about:
Theatre, Queer Studies, Sociology
Toni-Marie Pinder
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Magdalena Wolska
Assistant Lecturer,
Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research students
Afra Alqahtani
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Nooryiah Alroomi
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ahlam Alshammari
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Samantha Andrews
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Taylor Beidler
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Emma Bishop
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Maximilian Bowden
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Rebecca Buckle
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Turki Buyabes
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Nahida Choudhury
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ellyn Coe
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Natasha Comer
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
James Everett
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Rouba Farah
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Elelia Ferro
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Nathan Ford
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Anne Hadley
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Flavia Homburg
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Research interests:
Theatre Underground; 70s and 80s British theatre; Feminism
Harry Hughes
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Xu Jiangfeng
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ben Kavanagh
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Madeleine Last
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Edward Lee
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ask me about:
OuLiPo. OuTraPo. Gipsy.
Anran Liu
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Paul Macklin
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ask me about:
Ergodic Literature; Labyrinths in Literature; Experimental Literature; 4:48 Psychosis; Post-Structuralism
Research interests:
Ergodic Literature; Experimental Theatre; New Weird Fiction
Emma Marns
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Clare McVicar
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Francesca Medici
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Yuhui Meng
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Jim Morris
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
John Nero
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Lilly-Ann Newman
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Natasha O'Brien
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Aminat Oladipupo
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Marouan Omara
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Noah Alfred Pantano
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ask me about:
Theatre, Queer Studies, Sociology
Craig Papworth
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Raegan Payne
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Toni-Marie Pinder
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Becs Prichard
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Shaghayegh Rashidi
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Jordan Reddington
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ask me about:
Practice-based research; Transgender fiction; Queer fiction; Women's fiction; Contemporary fiction; Sylvia Plath
Jane Renton
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ask me about:
IFS (Internal family systems)
Sean Smith
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Courtney Spencer
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Abigail Steadman
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Alice Stephens
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Ask me about:
Queer Literature
Jenny Stokes
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Sarah Sutton
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Kim Thomson
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Charlie Vickers
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Magdalena Wolska
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Danielle Wrayton
Postgraduate Research Student,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
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