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MPhil / PhD English Literature

The English Literature programme team can supervise a wide range of projects.

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The team include

Dr Lucy Andrew

Lucy can supervise projects on:
  • Children's literature
  • Young Adult fiction
  • Crime fiction
  • Fandom and fan fiction
  • LGBTQ fiction

A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

Dr Graham Atkin

Graham can supervise projects on:
  • Contemporary drama
  • American literature

A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Peter Blair

    Peter can supervise projects on:
    • Flash fiction
    • South African literature
    • Postcolonial literature and theory
    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Ashley Chantler

    Ashley can supervise projects on:
    • Flash fiction
    • Modernist literature
    • Joseph Conrad
    • Ford Madox Ford
    • Harold Pinter
    • Contemporary British travel writing

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Melissa Fegan

    Melissa can supervise projects on:
    • Nineteenth-century literature
    • Irish literature
    • Literature and history
    • Neo-Victorian fiction
    • Travel literature

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Sarah Heaton

    Sarah can supervise projects on:
    • Fashion in literature
    • Architecture, interiors and gardens in literature

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Richard Leahy

    Richard can supervise projects on:

    • Nineteenth-century literature and culture
    • Critical theory
    • Literature and technology
    • Gothic literature

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Eileen Pollard

    Eileen can supervise projects on:
    • Hilary Mantel
    • Critical and cultural theory
    • Twentieth and twenty-first-century literature

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Professor Emma Rees

    Emma can supervise projects on:
    • Gender and feminism
    • Renaissance literature
    • Film studies
    • Representations of mental illness
    • Embodiment

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr William Stephenson

    William can supervise projects on:
    • The literature of addiction
    • Science fiction and dystopian literature
    • Contemporary fiction
    • Hunter S. Thompson, Timothy Leary, the US counterculture
    • John Fowles
    • David Mitchell

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Alex Tankard

    Alex can supervise projects on:
    • Critical disability studies
    • Nineteenth-century literature
    • Nineteenth-century medical humanities
    • Masculinity/Queer representation

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Dr Sally West

    Sally can supervise projects on:
    • Romantic literature (especially the work of P. B. Shelley and S. T. Coleridge)
    • British detective/crime fiction
    • The work of Patricia Highsmith

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online.

    Professor Deborah Wynne

    Deborah can supervise projects on:
    • Victorian women’s writing
    • Literature and material culture
    • Literature and gender

    A detailed profile and contact details are available online. 

    How to Apply

    For information about how to apply, or if you have any questions, contact details are available on the Research Degrees page.