School of Critical Studies

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Doctoral Supervision

We welcome proposals in any of the above specialisms (and more!) and have experience supervising doctoral work a wide range of theoretical and theoretically inflected projects.

Current and recently completed titles include

  • ‘Speculative Realism and the Sublime in Recent Theory-Fiction’
  • ‘Contemporary Depictions of Ottoman Women’
  • ‘Mapping the Self in Contemporary Middle-Eastern Migrant Fiction: A Geocritical Reading’
  • ‘A Philosophical Exploration of the Pursuit of Perfection’
  • ‘Feminist identity in 21st century women’s memoir’
  • ‘Gender, Class and Race in Muriel Spark’s Writings’
  • ‘Agency, National Identity and Travel Writing’
  • ‘Nigerian Cityscapes: an Ecocritical Reading of Narratives of Development and Modernity in Anglophone Novels since 1954’
  • ‘The Neuroplastic Aspects of the Literary Phenomena of Blending’
  • ‘Ruskin, Proust & Sebald: Romanticism, Composition & Autobiography’
  • ‘Affective Theory: A Genealogy of Autotheory as an Embedded and Embodied Philosophical Praxis’
  • ‘Narratives of the Arab Spring: A Critical Study of the selected Arab Fiction in English’
  • ‘The Worker and the Literature of Social Protest in Germany (1889 - 1933)’
  • ‘Faith, Fairies and Floozies: Deconstructing God, Sex and Gender in Fantasy’