Students and Alumni
This area of the blog is to display our past and current Postgraduate associates and projects, along with interns who have collaborated with us
Postgraduates
Current PhD theses:
Rebecca Alaise, third year PhD student in English working on a project on: ‘Ethereal Instruments: The Singing Voice in Literary Representations of ‘Gothic’ Music in the Long Nineteenth Century‘
Steph Boydell, second year PhD student in History, working on a project on: ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement in late nineteenth century Manchester: production, consumption and idealism in Britain’s “shock city”.
Alice Durocher, second year PhD student in English working on: ‘Gothic Cities: Manchester, Edinburgh and Paris in Contemporary Literature and the Cultural Imagination’
Catherine Elkin, final year PhD student in English and History working on a project on: ‘Representations of Baby Farming, 1838-1908’
Camilla Prince, third year PhD student in English working on: ‘Women Writers and Editors 1890-1930: feminism, modernism, and the evolution of the short story in British Periodicals’
James McCrae, third year PhD student in English working on: ‘A Cultural History of the Animated Skeleton, 1700-1900’
Michelle Ravenscroft, third year PhD student in English working on a project on: ‘The Portico Library and Collection: History, Culture, Identity, and Reading the North 1806-1930’
Hannah Williamson, second year PhD student in English and Art working on: ‘Bertha Hindshaw (1881-1955) and the Horsfall Museum Collection’
Previously completed PhD theses:
Dr Teresa Fitzpatrick, ‘EcoGothic Monsters: Killer Plants and Gothic Gardeners of the long 20th Century‘ (2022)
Dr Alicia Edwards, “There are Things going bump in the Night all over this Town”: Gothic Tourism, Haunted London and Geographies of Haunted Spaces” (2022). The resource name would go here
Neil Cliff ‘Lions, Landscapes and Legacy: ‘Exploring’ Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa‘ (2022)
Dr Nicole Dittmer, ‘Wilderness and Female “Monstrosity”: A Material Ecofeminist Reading of Victorian Gothic Fiction’ (2021)
Dr Ian Murphy, ‘Art, Androgyny and the Femme Fatale in Decadent Fictions of the Nineteenth Century’ (2020)
Dominika Wielgopolan ”Beautiful, Peaceful, and Fruitful’? (Re)Creating Ruskin’s Utopia in the Wye Forest’ (2020)
Dr Holly Hirst, ‘The Theology of the Early British Gothic, 1760-1830’ (2019)
Dr Caroline Ikin, ‘Reading Ruskin in the garden: the designed landscape at Brantwood (1871-1900)’ (2019)
Dr Jonathan Greenaway, ‘Language of the Sacred: The Nineteenth-Century Gothic Novel and Imaginative Apologetics’ (2018)
Dr Jennifer Bailey ‘For Rochdale: Reading, Mapping and Writing Place in the Era of the Northern Powerhouse‘ (2018)
Dr Richard Gough Thomas, ‘Scepticism and Experience in the Educational Writing of William Godwin’ (2015)
Dr Caroline Bayliss-Green, ‘Queer Subjectivities, Transgressive Femininity and the Development of Proto-Lesbian Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing’ (2014)
Dr Lorna Shelley, ‘The Yellow Book and Fin-de-Siecle Magazines: Gender, Journalism and Urbanity’ (2008)
Alumni
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Interns
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