English at Leicester
PhD students
| Name | Project Title |
| Lulu Al Sijari |
Antagonist to Protagonist: Psychopaths in American Film, 1945–2020 |
| Rawan Alnefaee | Composing Illness in Charlotte Brontë Gothic Novels |
| Hind Alotaibi |
Hope, Despair, and Environmental Discourses in Contemporary North American Speculative Fiction |
| Mamdouh Al-Otaibi | The Poetry of Lucille Clifton as ‘a matter of life, not just a matter of language’ |
| Sanem Alti |
Contemporary Turkish Women’s Writing Through the Motif of the Hymen |
| Elliot Andrews |
Mapping the Punch Brotherhood: Methodological Approaches to Networking and Collaboration (1841-1900) |
| David Andrino |
The Utilitarian Illusion of Progress: A Study of Individual Action in Aldous Huxley’s Satirical Dystopias and his Anti-Utopian Vision for the Twenty-First Century |
| Rachael Bailey-Gibson |
Victorian Lives/Victorian Deaths |
| Joe Bedford |
Green, Pleasant and Ours: Challenging 'Far-Right Ecologism' through Contemporary Environmental Fiction |
| Carly Bennett |
Representations of the Queer Folk Devil in Satanic Panic Literature |
| Laura Besley |
Exploring Memory and Migration through the Fragmentary Form of Novella-in-Flash |
| Hannah Burden |
Reading with the Queen: The Literary Consumption and Contribution of Queen Victoria |
| Lara Camilleri |
The Fictional, Artistic, and Biographical Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal |
| Nichola Cassé |
The Public School in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Gay Literature |
| Mellissa Flowerdew-Clarke |
The 27 Cult: Boddah’s Law - Terror Management Theory, Cultism, and Mass Suicide |
| Beth Gaylard |
Going, Going: Solastalgia in Rural England 1921-2024 |
| Laura Gilmore |
Medievalism in the Supernatural Fiction of M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen |
| Peter Green |
Form in the Late Poetry of J. H. Prynne |
| Kathy Hoyle |
The Lost Voices of County Durham: Capturing the Working-Class Voices of the North-East using Oral History as a Primary Resource for Short Story Cycles |
| Sonya Hundal |
Documenting through Creative Fiction, the Intergenerational Trauma in a South Asian Family |
| Tina Jay |
Desires, Dreams and Perceptions: The Erotic Paradox of Male Sex Workers |
| Jasleen Kandhari |
The Female Sikh Superhero: Representing Sikh Socio-Religious Identity, Gender and Culture in Sikh Graphic Narratives |
| Kye Kennedy |
The Distant King and Those Who Made Him: A Novel and Commentary that Interrogates the Value of Character in Creating Authenticity in Historical Fiction |
| Esther Kentish |
The Story of COVID-19: A Critical Investigation into Novels, Memoirs, Fiction, and Illness Narratives |
| Mathew Lopez-Bland |
Anime and Who I Am: A Creative Non-Fiction Collection |
| Viola Nassi |
Decolonisation and Depatriarchal Narratives: Violence, Power and Language in Contemporary Chicana Writing on La Malinche |
| Patricia Maia Noronha |
Mourning the Living, a Creative Approach on Emigration, Family and the True-self |
| Claire Nott |
Contemporary Revisions of Frankenstein |
| Chelsey Pinney |
‘A Theatre of Calamity’: Tracing the Carnivalization of Sentiment in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Literature |
| Katie Reed |
Children, Trauma and Coming of Age in Cold Case Crime Fiction and Television |
| Rob Reeves |
Minor Voices: Poems About a Fragmented Society |
| Catherine Robinson | Speaking With a Lost Tongue |
| Jyoti Saimbi | Pedagogical Chaucer: Chaucer's Works, Didacticism, Astrology and the Supernatural |
| Carinya Sharples | How do contemporary Guyanese writers of mixed heritage represent, articulate and shape mixedness through their writing? |
| Jane Simmons |
Poetry as a medium for autobiographical life-writing in contemporary British women’s poetry, with a collection of original poems |
| Annie Taylor |
Country House Literature and the Colonial Gothic |
| Amber Vella |
'She looks well, but is in her Constitutional Uncertainty': Representing and Responding to Pregnancy in Late Georgian Britain, c.1760 c.1820 |
| Nina Walker |
The Grounding and Absurdism of Computer Technology in Contemporary American Literature |
| Donna-Marie Wilkinson |
Peripheral Parenting: Redefining the Literary Orphan in the Works of Charles Dickens |
| Lee Wright |
The Hum |