Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I welcome enquiries from students interested in developing research projects on any aspect of English literary culture 1600s-1700s, or on projects that explore gender or interdisciplinary connections between literature and the visual arts.

I have supervised the following PhD projects to completion:

* Montana Davies-Shuck, ‘Follower of Fashion: Mapping the Social and Political Genealogy of the Literary Fop, 1660-1790' (second supervisor, 2016-present, viva August 2020).

* Nicole Cochrane, ‘Appropriating Antiquity: Greco-Roman Sculpture and the British Public 1770-1900’ (second supervisor, Heritage Consortium studentship, completed 2019).

* John Hemy, ‘Samuel Johnson and British Drama' (first supervisor, completed 2018).

* Danielle McDonnell, ‘Rape in Law and Literature, 1700-1765’ (second supervisor, completed 2017).

I am currently supervising the following student(s):

* Malcolm Clements.

* Daisy Winter (first supervisor, start date October 2019).

* Ella Nixon (first supervisor, start date October 2020).