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Postgraduate Research

Welcome to our postgraduate research page. Here you can find and access information relating to a number of students in our postgraduate cohort whose research relates to regional culture and literature.

By clicking on each student’s name you will be taken to a page with a written description of their work or a profile page describing their research interests. 

You can also see a list of publications by the Centre's current and recent PhD students here.

There are many postgraduate research projects currently taking place in the school.

 

Current PhD students

• Andrea Bowd - Creative Writing PhD focusing on the theme of spirituality and hauntings in the English landscape, with a focus on South Nottinghamshire. 
• John Cammish - PhD on Romanticism and philanthropy, dealing with Henry Kirke White, amongst other regional figures. 
• Lauren Colley - PhD on Wordsworth, Dickens, and walking. Involvement with Critical Poetics in Nottingham: http://www.criticalpoetics.co.uk/revision-through-my-eyes-by-lauren-colley/ 
• Colette Davies - M3C-funded PhD on the Minerva Press. Colette Davies is also PGR rep on the British Association of Romantic Studies executive. Colette Davies co-organised a two-day, virtual ECR conference on 'Romantic Futurities' for the British Association of Romantic Studies.  
• Gemma Edwards -  Representing the Rural: New Rural Imaginaries on the Twenty-First Century Stage.
• Nicola Grace - Creative Writing PhD, writing experimental memoir on radical midwifery focusing on own experiences in East Midlands (informed by her ongoing editorship of Radical Midwives Journal: https://www.midwifery.org.uk/author/ngrace/) 
• Ruby Hawley-Sibbett - M4C funded PhD on regional novels in Romantic period. 
• Esther Kearney - PhD focuses on Nottinghamshire writer Lucy Hutchinson.  
• Jodie Marley - 'A Rare Instance of Mystical Genius': The Influence of William Blake on the Mysticism of Irish Modernist Writers. (Funded by CRLC.)
• Morakot Pan-Iam - Reading Spatial Loneliness and Subjectivity in the Apartheid Fiction of Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee.
• Amy Van Kesteren - Creative Writing PhD. Amy submitted her thesis, which had a strong regional basis, and consists of two parts: her novel, Hollow, and a critical commentary that examines the uncanny in relation to this creative work, the process of writing it, and the wider context of the Gothic genre. 
• Amy Wilcockson - M4C PhD on Thomas Campbell. Amy Wilcockson has taken up the role of Keats-Shelley Association of America Communication Fellow. 

Past PhD students

• Thomas Black - Celtic Britain: Writing National Identities from 1640-1725.
• Ed Downey - Print culture, democracy and reform in the Romantic period; 'Thomas Spence and Regional Political Culture'
• Margaret Eaton - Performativity in the life writings of Frank McCourt
• Annalise Grice - The Early Writings of D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace
• Pamela Grieg - Editing the Lay Folks’ Catechism , or  Sermon of John Gaytrydge, a manual of elementary religious instruction
• Hollie Johnson - Ecodystopia: Environmental Apocalypse and the Ecocidal Imagination.
• Katie Jones - Author, Reviewer and Translator: Katherine Mansfield's Place in Literary Culture.
• Hannah Manktelow - Provincial Shakespeare Performance, 1769-2016.
• Jemima Matthews - The Use and Abuse of the Thames, 1550-1650
• Sarah O'Malley - Gendered Lands: Literary Representations of Seventeenth-Century English Landscapes, Spaces and Places at Home and Abroad.
• Charlotte May - The Samuel Rogers Recovery Project
• Ivan Pregnolato - A Pilgrim in Historiography: Byron and the Discourse(s) of History in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.
• Emma Zimmerman - Architexture: Space, Form, and the Late Modernist Novel

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