Project
Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics and Culture PhD Students
School: School of Social Sciences
Current PhD Students
Name | Title | Supervisors |
| Yulia Baturova | Human-Interpretable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Online Language Crimes | Dr Jordan Bird |
| Seda Ergül | Communication Riders: Reimagining Access and Connection in Artistic Collaboration and Curatorial Practice | Lucian Milasan Emma Cocker |
| Eleanor Moselle | Unearthly Ecologies: Exploring Environmentalism and Sustainability Beyond Earth Through Literature and Culture | Doug Millard (Science Museum) Dr Elizabeth Stanway (U of Warwick) |
| Syed Peeran | Postcolonial Biopolitics: Birth, Creation, and the Posthuman in Indian English Science Fiction | |
| Alex Rainford-Roberts | ‘Dirty movies’: Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of cinema, soil, and sustainability | Dr Marcello Di Bonito |
| Pascal Verheul | The Role of Literature and Creative Practice in Acclimating Urban Dwellers to Nearby Nature | |
Oliver Arnold | The Romantic Supernatural: Environmental, Theological, Personal and Socio-political Destabilization | |
Ash Balu | Hip Hop in Nottingham | |
Rupal Bansal | The Heterochrony of the Night in Partition and Post-Partition Literature of India and Pakistan | |
Shohini Barman | Politics of Caste in Bengal: Dalit Literature in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Bengal | |
Sara Bavakhani | Ressentiment, Violence, and Evil in American South Fiction | |
Jack Benjamin | Language in Nottingham: Celebrating language as intangible cultural heritage | Prof. Nicola McLelland (University of Nottingham) |
Matt Biggs | Opening the Puzzle Box: Exploring Narrative Techniques in Puzzle-Box Storytelling | |
Sarah Curtis | Language impairment in Adults with Down’s Syndrome, and overlap with early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease | |
Mrigakshi Das | Adivasi Literature and Cinema: Exploring Adivasi Alterity and Assertion | |
Olivia Foster | Cohabiting with the Environment: An ecocritical examination of environment and place in the works of Emily Dickinson, Sarah Piatt, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorde | |
Julie Gardner | The Intersection of Fear and Hope in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry and Fiction: A Critical and Creative Study | |
Lucy Grace | Stories in Stones: Mines, Memory and the Geological Imagination in the Anthropocene | |
Helena Hunter | Algae ecologies: scale, temporality and modes of address in contemporary Anthropocene poetry. | |
Natasha Jefferson | Language and Power in the Courtroom: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Depp v. Heard Defamation Trial | |
Steve Katon | Representations of Disabled Characters in Contemporary Upper Middle-Grade Children’s Literature | |
Kat King | Communication Challenges in Police Interactions Involving Non-Native English Speakers in the East Midlands | |
Marwa Mustafa | The Language of Realised Threats in Online Terrorist Manifestos: Exploring A Linguistic Solution to a Global Challenge | |
Kai Northcott | The Teleology of Dissociation in Contemporary Narrative | |
Dani-Louise Olver | TribalCrit: Subverting Multicultural Ideology in Contemporary U.S. and Canadian Indigenous School Stories | |
Max Piesley | Rebel Rebel: Politics and Culture in Radical Scottish Publication Networks | |
Rahiela Seef | ‘Like Surah, Like Song’: The Poetics of Faith, Femininity and Orality across the East African Diaspora | |
Zeynep Serinkaya Winter | Digital Intimate Publics, Yeşilçam Fandom, and Nostalgia for Old Turkey | |
Courtney Smith | Representations of Drag, versus Modes of their LGBTQ+ Reception | |
Graeme Williams | Æthelbald of Mercia: Examining gender roles in male historical genre fiction and its potential impact on contemporary hegemonic masculinity |
Recent PhD completions
Name | Title | Supervisors |
Purna Chandra Naik | Reading the Rejected: Dirt, Spatiality and Subjectivity in Dalit Literature | |
Rebecca (Lauren) Bruce | Travels of the Ancient Egyptian Body: From the Tomb to the Museum | |
Roxanne Ablett | Collector, Curator, Creator: Nigerian Folktales and their Colonial Appropriation, Feminist Intervention, and Contemporary Reappropriation | |
Paul Adey | ‘I Gave You Power’: The Weaponization of Literary Intertextuality in Hip Hop Lyricism | |
Arwa Almefawaz | Intersecting Factors Shaping Contemporary Black British Female Bodies on Stage | Prof. Nahem Yousaf |
Ece Bulut | Queering the Child in Indie Film | |
Neeraj Bunkar | Caste and Rajasthan-based Cinema: Depiction of Dalit Realities in the Cinematic World | |
Emre Busse | Role, Class, and ‘Race’ Play in Gay Ethnic Pornography | Prof. Wendy Shaw |
Victoria Callus | Paper Cuts: Investigating Paper Affect in Contemporary Experimental Literature | |
Drew Collison | Basil Bunting's The Spoils and its legacy | |
Trang Dang | Climate Change and Contemporary Weird Fiction: The Fight for Survival between Humanity and the Natural World in Jeff VanderMeer’s Novels | |
Zack Ditch | Locating Regional Cultures of Drag in Medium-Sized English Cities: An Ethnographic Case Study of Nottingham’s Drag Scene | |
Annelise Edwards-Daem | A Feminist Figurine: Reclaiming the Doll in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing | Dr Emma Parker |
Beth Evans | Publishing Black British Short Stories: The Potential and Place of a Marginalised Form | |
Laura Ewart | Nottingham Playhouse: A Cultural History and Analysis of its Community Engagement | Prof. Sharon Monteith Barbara Matthews Martin Berry (Head of Participation, Nottingham Playhouse) |
Patricia Francis | Close Up: A creative-critical intervention in women activists and activist documentary filmmaking | Prof. Sharon Monteith Fiona Maclaren |
Tuesday Goacher (Tuesday Shannon) | Striking Legacies: Place Attachment and the Post-Industrial Landscape in the Poetry of Helen Mort, Ian Parks and Tony Harrison | Dr Rory Waterman Dr Andrew Taylor Nicholas Everett (U of Leicester) |
Alexander Jovcic-Sas | Locating Grunow and Oram in the Bauhaus Centenary: Parallel canonisation as curatorial practice | |
Tom Lockwood-Moran | Queer Resistance(s): Contemporary Caribbean Communality | Dr Amy Rushton Dr Anna Ball Dr Lucy Evans |
Allan Njanji | Redocumenting refugee perspectives: Developing visual alternatives to the UK media's representation of refugees and asylum-seekers through creative documentary practices | Dr Anna Ball Lyn Champion Prof. Martin O'Shaughnessy |
Ramisha Rafique | The ontology of the British Pakistani Muslim Flâneuse: Decolonisation in British Pakistani Muslim women's writing | |
Margaret Ravenscroft | Creative cultural productions by and of displaced women | Dr Anna Ball Dr Olga Bailey |
Lewis Ridgway | Rethinking Secularism: British Muslim Writing in the post-9/11 Era | Prof. Sharon Monteith |
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