Rachel Abramowitz (Christ Church)

Topic: Donald Barthelme in Context

Supervisor: Dr T Karshan, Professor R Bush

William Arndt (Keble)

Topic: Hemingway's use of violent physical conflict and its impact on gendered
identity, particularly in relation to the ordeal of childbirth.
Supervisor: Dr D Purkiss

Hannah Arnold (Jesus)

Topic: The relationship between W.H. Auden and Germany
Supervisor: Professor V Cunningham

Susan Barbour (Somerville)

Topic: Secret Affinities: Materiality and Metaphysics in the Poetry of Susan Howe
Supervisor: Dr R Beasley

Kevin Brazil (New)

Topic: Samuel Beckett and Visual Art
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Angus Brown (Jesus)

Topic: Quotation and Close Reading: Barthes, Sedgwick and American Fiction
Supervisor: Dr M Reynolds

Alexander Bubb (Exeter)

Topic: Kipling and Yeats: The Last Romantics
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Mark Byers (Balliol)

Topic: Black Mountain Poetry and Environmental Theory
Supervisor: Professor J Bate

Anna Cairns (Magdalen)

 Topic: Female Comedic Performance in Theatre: late 19th and early 20th
Supervisor: Dr K Shepherd-Barr

Anna Camilleri (Balliol)

Topic: The Heroism of Byron's Heroines
Supervisor: Dr S Perry

Camilla Cassidy (St Hilda's)

Topic: Iron Times and Golden Ages: Nostalgia and the mid-Victorian Historical
Novel
Supervisor: Dr J Sloan

Tim Chiou (Balliol)

Topic: Reception and Remembrance: Posthumous Community and Life Writing
Women Poets from 1790-1840
Supervisor: Dr L Newlyn

Christopher Compton (Oriel)

Topic: De Quinceyean inscapes and the textual ontics of his 'canonical' works
Supervisor: Professor K Sutherland

Mia Cuthbertson (Brasenose)

Topic: Linguistic History in the work of Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon': Etymology
and the origins of language in 20th century poetry
Supervisor: Dr M Reynolds

Dominic Davies (St Anne's)

Topic: Reading the Postcolonial into Modernist Interstices.' Focusing on Olive
Schreine
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Jonathan Day (St Johns)

Topic: Novel Sensations: Modernist Fictions and the Problem of Qualia
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth
Phoebe Downing (Balliol)
Topic: Socialism, Evolution and Literature, 1880-1914
Supervisor: Dr S Jones

David Evans (New)

Topic: Herman Melville and Philosophy: The Problem of Knowledge
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Jessica Fay (St Johns)

Topic: William Wordsworth's Language: Religion, Philosophy and the Possibility of
Poetic Truth
Supervisor: Professor F Stafford

Hannah Field (Somerville)

Topic: Toying with the Book: A Material History of Nineteenth-Century Movable
Books for Children
Supervisor: Dr D Purkiss

Edward Flett (Exeter)

Topic: Reflections from Virtual Frontiers: David Cronenberg and The Technological
State
Supervisor: Supervisors: Professor E Boehmer, Dr S Bayley

Oren Goldschmidt (Jesus)

Topic: Some sort of life in common': Individuality and Community in the Writing of
Virginia Woolf
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Michael Greenhalgh (Keble)

Topic: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary of the Libretto of Peter
Grimes.
Supervisor: Professor V Cunningham
Adam Guy (Lincoln)
Topic: The Nouveau Roman in Britain, 1957-73
Supervisor: Professor V Cunningham

Cleo Hanaway (New)

Topic: Modernism, Merleau-Ponty, and the Movies
Supervisor: Supervisors: Professor L Marcus, Ms J Johnson

Thomas Harmsworth (Exeter)

Topic: Ecological Poetry and Poetic Ecology: American Ecological Writing in the
Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Supervisor: Professor J Bate

Christopher Hartley (Magdalen)

Topic: Fear and Greed: Financial Catastrophe in English and American Literature and
the Paradox of Modernity
Supervisor: Dr L Pratt

Elizabeth Hodges (Merton)

Topic: An Exploration of Sight and its Relationship with Reality in World War One
and World War Two Literature
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth

Hsin-yu Hung (St Anne's)

Topic: Appropriating the Avant-Garde: Joyce and the Styles of Ulysses
Supervisor: Dr R Beasley

Francis Hutton-Williams (Exeter)

Topic: Modernism, Ireland and the international poetics of Thomas McGreevy, 1916-
1941
Supervisor: Ms J Johnson

Janina Jetter (St Cross)

Topic: The isolated self in American domestic drama since the 1940s
 Supervisor: Dr L Pratt

Anna Johnson (Brasenose)

Topic: Crisis and Continuity in the Arts of David Jones
Supervisor: Mr J O'Donoghue

Erin Johnson (Mansfield)

Topic: Heroes, Villains, and Rogues: Representations of Masculinity in the Bront
Canon
Supervisor: Professor S Shuttleworth

Lucy Kellett (Balliol)

Topic: Anxieties of Print Culture: Romantic literary forms and the crisis of
knowledge in the age of expansion
Supervisor: Dr S Perry

Matthew Kerr (Somerville)

Topic: Many Voices': The Sea in Victorian Literature
Supervisor: Dr R Douglas-Fairhurst

Grace Kim (Trinity)

Topic: Third Culture Kids and the Politics of Post-Spatial Identity
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Hannah Kirby (Keble)

Topic: Expressing the Inexpressible: Asyndetic Depictions of Romantic Desire in
Prose Romance
Supervisor: Dr H Moore

Lakshmi Krishnan (New)

Topic: Swinburne and the Novel
Supervisor: Dr N Shrimpton

Tomoe Kumojima (Oriel)

 Topic: Feminine Hospitality and Friendship: International Bonds in Victorian
Women's Travel Writing to Meiji Japan
Supervisor: Dr A Mukherjee

Rosamund Lavan (St Anne's)

Topic: Sense and Feeling in Seamus Heaney
Supervisor: Mr B O'Donoghue, Dr M Johnston

Charne Lavery (b)

Topic: "Sea of Words": Writing the Indian Ocean World in the Twentieth Century
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Katharine Leadbetter (Wadham)

Topic: The Screened Woman: The Role of Presence in Gender Film Theory
Supervisor: Dr A Klevan

Adam Lee (Jesus)

Topic: The Platonism of Walter Pater
Supervisor: Dr S Evangelista

Erica Lombard (Hertford)

Topic: Nostalgia in White South African Writing of the Past Fifty Years
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Jessica Lowry (Exeter)

Topic: Spaces and Places in the Works of William Trevor
Supervisor: Professor H Lee

Laura Ludtke (St Anne's)

Topic: Islands of Light and "Long Groves of Darkness": the Influence of Artificial
Light in British Literature: 1880-1945
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth

Alison Lutton (St Hugh's)

 Topic: The Paratext and Refiguring of Postmodern Authorship
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth

Alexandra Manglis (Linacre)

Topic: The American Literary Contexts of Henry David Thoreau
Supervisor: Professor R Bush

Nisha Manocha (Wolfson)

Topic: Generic Insistence: Empire, Modernism, and the Document
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Kimberly Marsh (St Cross)

Topic: The Indian Picturesque in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
Supervisor: Supervisors: Dr D Sergeant, Professor R Ballaster

Nancy Martin (Linacre)

Topic: A Threat to the Nation': Representations of Female Desire during World War
One
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Karim Mattar (Lady Margaret Hall)

Topic: Narratives of Dispossession: The State in Anglophone Middle Eastern
Literature
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Michael Mayo (Exeter)

Topic: The Spiritual Exercises of Loyola and the Sacraments of Modernist Style
Supervisor: Ms J Johnson

Marc McLaughlin (Oriel)

Topic: The Movement & The Movies: Extratextual realism and the post-war English
novel
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus
Henry Mead (Worcester)
Topic: Early Modernism and Radical Individualism: T.E Hulme and His
Contemporaries, 1900-1917
Supervisor: Professor R Bush

Calum Mechie (St Catherine's)

Topic: Writing from the fringes of modernism: the literary journalism of George
Orwell and Graham Greene
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Hazra Medica (St Anne's)

Topic: The Influence of Anxiety: Re-presentations of Antiguan identity in Antigua
literature from 1890 to the present
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Anne-Claire Michoux (Lincoln)

Topic: Rooms for Conversation: Language and Space in the Novels of Jane Austen
Supervisor: Professor F Stafford

Tamara Moellenberg (Brasenose)

Topic: Seen but Not Heard': Literature and Cultural Politics of Childhood and Youth
in West and Central Africa
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Michael Molan (Magdalen)

Topic: The Reception of Milton by Poets in England in the Second Half of the
Twentieth Century
Supervisor: Dr S Achinstein

Alys Moody (Jesus)

Topic: Starving for their Art: The Aesthetics of Hunger in Samuel Beckett, Paul
Auster, and J. M. Coetzee
Supervisor: Dr A Mukherjee
Terri Mullholland (Queen's)
Topic: The Literature of the Boarding House: Female Transient Space in the 1930s
Supervisor: Dr R Beasley

Jaron Murphy (Merton)

Topic: The Arnoldian Element in Yeats
Supervisor: Mr J O'Donoghue

Alexander Niven (St Johns)

Topic: Basil Bunting and the Modernist Idea of Music
Supervisor: Professor R Bush

Kevin O'Farrell (Exeter)

Topic: Joyce after Nietzche: Irony and the Will to Truth
Supervisor: Mr J O'Donoghue

Thomas Owens (St Johns)

Topic: Wordsworth and Astronomy
Supervisor: Professor S Gill

Ahona Panda (Wolfson)

Topic: Cultivation of nostalgia in 19th and 20th-century Bengali/Anglophone writing
Supervisor: Dr A Mukherjee

Eleni Philippou (St Antony's)

Topic: Connections between the writings of the South African author J.M. Coetzee
(1940 ) and the aesthetic theories of the Marxist intellectual, Theodor Adorno (1903
1969)
Supervisor: Dr A Mukherjee

April Pierce (St Anne's)

Topic: Metaphor According to Modernist Authors
Supervisor: Professor R Bush, Ms J Johnson
Stella Pratt-Smith (Balliol)
Topic: Creative Sparks: Literary Responses to Electricity, 1830-1880
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth

Alexandra Pryce (Wadham)

Topic: New and Selective Traditions: Feminism and the Poetry of Colette Bryce,
Leontia Flynn and Sinead Morrissey
Supervisor: Mr J O'Donoghue

Olivia Reilly (Magdalen)

Topic: The perfect epicure of sound' - Music and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Supervisor: Dr S Perry

Rebecca Roach (New)

Topic: The Art of Chatter: The Paris Review Author Interviews
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Asha Rogers (St Anne's)

Topic: Market metaphors: Representation and materiality in contemporary
postcolonial literature
Supervisor: Professor P McDonald

Stephen Ross (St Johns)

Topic: Landscape in John Ashbery's Poetry
Supervisor: Professor R Bush

Marina Sagorje (Linacre)

Topic: Influences of the novel of manners and the comedy of menace in Mary
McCarthy's fiction
Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Charlotta Salmi (Linacre)

Topic: Bloodlines, Borderlines and Shadowlines: Redrawing the Nation in Partition
Literature
 Supervisor: Dr A Mukherjee

Kalika Sands (Wolfson)

Topic: Medicine and Modernity: Nineteenth-Century English Literature and the
Making of the Medical Professional
Supervisor: Professor S Shuttleworth

Gabriel Schenk (Pembroke)

Topic: The Tension of an Imagined Past: Arthurian Literature from 1850-1950
Supervisor: Supervisors: Dr C Larrington, Dr R Douglas-Fairhurst

John Scholar (New)

Topic: The "impression" in the late fiction and essays of Henry James
Supervisor: Supervisors: Ms J Johnson, Professor R Bush

Ruth Schuldiner (St Catherine's)

Topic: Implicature in the Early-Victorian Novel
Supervisor: Supervisors: Dr H Small, Professor D Cameron

David Shackleton (St Catherine's)

Topic: Deep Time, The Subject and the Modernist Novel
Supervisor: Ms J Johnson

Yasmine Shamma (Linacre)

Topic: The New York Schools of Poetry
Supervisor: Mr J O'Donoghue

Ery Shin (Brasenose)

Topic: Queer Modernisms: Pain and Paradox
Supervisor: Ms J Johnson

Nicole Sierra (Jesus)

Topic: Literature, Architecture, and Postmodernity: Donald Barthelme and J. G.
Ballard
 Supervisor: Professor L Marcus

Hannah Sikstrom (Brasenose)

Topic: Nineteenth-Century British Female Travel Writers in Italy
Supervisor: Dr M Reynolds

Konstantin Sofianos (Wadham)

Topic: The Novel in the Imperial World-System: Reading Eliot, Schreiner, and
Conrad, 1876-1914
Supervisor: Supervisors: Dr S Evangelista, Professor E Boehmer

David Soud (St Catherine's)

Topic: Calm in the Catastrophe: the Absolute and Human Action in Yeats, Eliot and
Jones
Supervisor: Dr R Beasley

Gavin Sourgen (Balliol)

Topic: Bryon, History, and the Politics of Form
Supervisor: Dr N Halmi

Eloise Stonborough (Balliol)

Topic: The Metrical Fingerprint: Constructing Poetic Identity 20th/21st century
Supervisor: Dr M Bevis

Edward Sugden (Linacre)

Topic: An Invisible Substance: Herman Melville and Temporality
Supervisor: Dr L Pratt and Dr C Gerrard

Anne-Marie Tatham (Trinity)

Topic: The Evolution Of Ted Hughe's Poetical Language From The Hawk In The
Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998)
Supervisor: Mr J O'Donoghue

Mark Taylor (Linacre)

 Topic: The Role of Science in the Works of D.H. Lawrence
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth

Scott Teal (Wolfson)

Topic: Postcolonial States of Failure and Sources of Hope in the Novels of Rohinton
Mistry and Amitav Ghosh
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Simon Thomas (Magdalen)

Topic: Dark, Mysterious and Undocumented: The Middlebrow Fantasy and the
Fantastic Middlebrow
Supervisor: Dr S Bayley

Courtney Traub (Linacre)

Topic: Contemporary Experimental American Fiction and the Utopic/Dystopic
Imagination
Supervisor: Dr L Pratt

Venus Chiu Ying Tsang (Linacre)

Topic: Collecting and Recollecting Memoires in Contemporary Ethnic American
Literature: Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Silko
Supervisor: Dr R Sastri

Vincent van Bever Donker (Wadham)

Topic: The Ethics of Postcolonial Literature: Reading Amitav Ghosh, Caryl Phillips
and Chimamunda Adichie
Supervisor: Professor E Boehmer

Aikaterini Virvidaki (St Anne's)

Topic: Understanding Tone and its effect on the Interpretation of film
Supervisor: Dr A Klevan

Amy Waite (Pembroke)

 Topic: Geographies of Intimacy: The Spatial Imaginations of Elizabeth Bishop and
Mina Loy
Supervisor: Dr S Bayley

Anthony Williams (Merton)

Topic: "An edifice of form": Empson's Modernist Poetics
Supervisor: Dr M Whitworth

Michelle Witen (St Johns)

Topic: Perceiving in Registers: The Condition of Music in James Joyce's Works
Supervisor: Professor R Bush

Naomi Wolf (New)

Topic: Were I with Thee': Gender Politics and Literary Representations of Female
Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Women's Fiction
Supervisor: Dr S Evangelista

Kathryn Worlton-Pulham (Hertford)

Topic: Dorothy Richardson and the Cinematic Writing of Temporal Consciousness
Supervisor: Dr S Jones

Stephanie Yorke (Wolfson)

Topic: Disability and the Normative Paradigm in Postcolonial Literatures of the
Indian Subcontinent
Supervisor: Dr A Mukherjee