Supervision can be offered on a wide range of subjects, including:
- Literature from the Renaissance to the present day
- Irish, South African, or American Literature
- Literary theory
- Modern textual editing
- Historical fiction
- Popular fiction
- Crime fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Flash fiction
- Postcolonialism
- Gender studies
- English language and linguistics, particularly discourse analysis/stylistics, language and the media, corpus linguistics
- Creative writing
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Current PhD students are researching, for example:
- Scopophilia in the fiction of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood
- Femininity in British Crime Fiction
- Spatial theory in Crime Fiction
- Heroic Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle Adventure Narratives
- Headwear in the Works of British Authors of the Early 20th Century
- My Friend, The Queen: Writing a Historical Novel
- Shropshire’s Feminist Novelists, Mary Cholmondeley and Mary Webb
- Intertextual Relations between the Works of Coleridge and Eliot
- The novels of Patricia Highsmith
Recently graduated PhD students have written theses on, for example:
- The Fiction and Fictionalising of William Carleton
- Anthony Trollope in Ireland
- The Ideology of Separate Spheres in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Literature
- The Resonant Fictions of Sarah Waters
- Gender Disruption, Rivalry, and Same-Sex Desire in the Work of Victorian Women Writers
- Shakespeare’s Unruly Female Characters
- The Woman Author-Editor and the Negotiation of Professional Identity, 1850-1880
- Chimera: Writing a Historical Novel
- The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- The Radical Voices of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant