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Dissertation Titles (and link)

Student
ENGL3002 - English Dissertation: Full Year
Beyond hearing: Focalising through the Senses in Joyce’s ‘Sirens’ Katrin Taneva
BA (Hons) English
‘Aching, toxic and underpaid’: The labouring body, toxic workplaces, and waste in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Lily Constanti
BA (Jt Hons) History and English
‘I suggest black’: The Written Play Text as a Historical Document Exploring Race, Identity and Legacy in Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play Tabitha Smith
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3029 - English Dissertation: Spring Semester Only
Exploring Epic Theatre’s Portrayal of Queer Identities and Relations within Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine  Eva Hughes-Sutton
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3045 - Project Based Dissertation
Theatre in Teaching: How Nottingham’s Roundabout Theatre Company Presented Social Justice Issues to Children‘ Georgia Thornton
BA (Hons) English Language and Literature
ENGL3058 - Creative Writing Dissertation
The Watchful Eye  Grace Morrison
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing
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Module and Essay Titles (and link)

Student
ENGL3012 - Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Lesson Plan and Rationale

Sirinporn Sattasakul
2+2 BA (Hons) English Language and Applied Linguistics
ENGL3013 - English Place-Names

Examining the Value of Place-Names as Evidence for History, Landscape and Language in Westmorland

Andrina Bettschen 
BA in English Literature and Linguistics with Archaeology at the University of Zurich
ENGL3034 - Oscar Wilde and Henry James: British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture
According to Regenia Gagnier, despite its slogan (‘Art for Art’s Sake’), Aestheticism was a vehicle for social reform (Idylls of the Marketplace, 1986). Do you agree?

Hannah Fielder
BA (Jt Hons) English and German
ENGL3046 - Songs and Sonnets: Lyric Poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne

Discuss the ways in which gender roles and expectations have influenced attitudes towards love and desire in lyric poetry you have studied on this module.

Felicity Cook
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3059 - The Self and the World: Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

“Venturing higher than their lot”: The Guilt of Man in Paradise Lost (IX and X) and Frankenstein

 Hetty Khine
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3067 - Single Author Study

“I must have opposition”: The Significance of Conflict in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘New Eve and Old Adam’ and Women in Love

Ben Doyle
BA (Hons) English

‘Did all friendships – all relations – involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? Did it extend to peoples and nations or was it a thing that happened only between individuals?’ (Zadie Smith, Swing Time [Hamish Hamilton, 2016], pp. 121-22). Write an essay on friendship in at least two of Smith’s novels.

Mia Gazza
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3068 - The Gothic Tradition

An Examination of William Blake’s Use of Gothic Themes in an Excerpt from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Amy Child
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing
ENGL3069 - Advanced Stylistics

Mindstyle and Mind-Modelling in A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

Jamey Heron-Waterhouse
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3070 - The Viking Mind

The Role of Emotion and Curses in the Revenants of Eyrbyggja Saga and Eiríks Saga Rauða

Olivia King
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3073 - Contemporary British Fiction

Formal Experimentation in Neil Gaiman’s Troll Bridge and Helen Oyeyemi’s Dornicka and the St Martin’s Day Goose

Elizabeth Osborn
BA (Hons) Liberal Arts
ENGL3094 - Language and Feminism
‘A Caricature of a Woman’

Mutiat Akamo
BA (Jt Hons) English and History of Art
ENGL3095 - Discourses of Health and Work

Examining the Influence of Politeness in Power Through Medical Relationship Videos

Yingya Li
2+2 BA (Hons) English Language and Applied Linguistics
ENGL3097 - Island and Empire

Hybridity, Mimicry, and The Third Space in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ and H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau

James Kaye
BA (Hons) English
ENGL3100 - Changing Stages: Theatre Industry and Theatre Art

An Analysis of Simon Godwin’s 2016 Production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Gerald Du Maurier’s Performance as Captain Hook in the Initial 1904 Staging of Peter Pan, and Emma Rice’s 2016 Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Globe Theatre.

Jessica Webber
BA (Hons) English
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