PhD Successes - January 2025

9 January 2025

A huge congratulations to our brilliant scholars who have successfully earned their PhDs in English Literature between July and December 2024! Your dedication, perseverance, and passion for literary studies have led to ground-breaking research that will inspire generations to come.

We are proud to showcase their incredible work:

Rawan Althunyan, Gendered Silence in Contemporary Saudi Arabian and Nigerian Novels. Supervised by Dr Maryam Mirza and Dr Jenny Terry.
Kashish Madan, Secularity and Religiosity in Selected Fiction by Githa Hariharan. Supervised by Dr Daniel Hartley.
Gailann Riven Peake, The Viking Sexual World: A Literary Ethno-Vikingology of Norse Sex and Sexual Behaviours as a ‘Prolonged Cultural Stimulus’. Supervised by Professor Corinne Saunders and Dr Philip Shaw.
Caitlín Rankin-Mccabe, A Body of Angels: The Angel in Early Modern English Literature. Supervised by Professor Mandy Green and Dr Vladimir Brljak.
Lydia Isabelle Shaw, ‘Unapprehended Relations of Things’: Remapping Mind and World in the Poetics of Nature in Byron and Shelley, 1816-1820. Supervised by Professor Mark Sandy.
Deborah Siddoway, ‘No Escape to be Had’: Divorce and Divorce Law Reform in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. Supervised by Dr Simon Grimble and Dr Andy Hayward.
Trishla Singh, Torture, Terror, and Affect in Post 9/11 Literature and Culture. Supervised by Dr Sam Thomas and Dr Jenny Terry.
Keerthi Sudhakar Vasishta, Conceiving Liberty: William Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose, 1789-1845. Supervised by Professor Mark Sandy and Dr Susan Valladares.