Supervision of MA mémoires (selected)
Amrit Singh, Behind the Grey Curtain: a study of the inner mechanisms of the sub-created world in J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Dec 2012.
Tania Balderas, From Rulfo to Rushdie: Latin American and British Magic Realism. Sept 2013.
Victoria Baumgartner, The Genesis of Bloodshed: Violence on the Shakespearean Stage. June 2014.
Etienne Guilloud, Milton’s Paradise Regained and the New Testament. Co-supervised with Claire Clivaz. Feb 2014.
Nathalie Favre, The Regenerative Voice of Eve in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Jan 2014.
Amy Player, (Re)defining ‘nature’ in Alice Oswald’s Dart and Kathleen Jamie’s Findings and Sightlines, Jan 2013. Faculty Prize.
Yasmina Naim, The Revenge of Milton’s Fallen Angels in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. June 2015.
Valeriya Vershinina, Metamorphic Selves in London Underworld Fiction. June 2015.
Danielle Barnett, The Ecodramas of Caryl Churchill and Anne Galjour: an Ecopoetic Approach to Theatre. August 2015.
Philippine Jaton, Storytelling in Children’s Holocaust Fiction. Sept 2015.
Aline Kohler, Ovidian Myth in Amy Beth Kirsten’s Music. Co-supervised with Mathilda Reichler, Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne. Sept 2015.
Chloe Falcy, ‘When orient light / Exhaling first from darkness they beheld’: the Oriental Narrative of Milton’s Paradise Lost. June 2016.
Sandra Vuilleumier, ‘Man is to live; and all things live for Man’: Nature and Ecology in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Sept 2016.
Jonathan Antunes Afonso, ‘I Stand in My Own Pain and Sing My Own Song’: Rewriting Eurydice in Modern and Contemporary Women’s Poetry. Dec 2016.
Marie-Laure Cap, Chronotopic Ethics: Fleshing Out Time and Space in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. May 2017, Faculty Prize.
Laura Vogel, Creatureliness in J. K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and the Harry Potter series: Animal Studies and Posthuman Approaches. June 2020.
Katharina Schwarck, Snape, Snape, Severus Snegg – The Russian Translation of Proper Nouns in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Co-supervised with Ekatarina Velmozova. Sept 2022.
Alexandre Jordan, Writing the Ineffable: (De)constructed Identities in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Jan 2023, Faculty Prize.
Romain Bajulaz, A Future Anchored in the Present: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and its real-world resonances. June 2023.
Crystal Beard, Figurative Flowers: Explorations of Self in the Floral Imagery of Margaret Fuller and Emily Dickinson. Co-supervised with Matthew Scully. Sept 2024.
Elisa Durand, Visual Images as Key to Interpretation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. June 2025, Faculty Prize.
Martina Quadroni, Reviving the Dragon : The Potential of Fantasy Literature for Re-enchanting the Earth. June 2026.
MEMOIRE EXAMINATION (as expert), University of Lausanne
Delphine Hirschi, From Beowulf to Frodo: New Heroism in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Supervisor: Denis Renevey. June 2011.
Jessica Monnet, Meaning behind Metamorphoses in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Supervisor: Kirsten Stirling. June 2011.
Marie Emilie Walz, When The Faerie Queene enters The Bloody Chamber, 2012. Supervisor: Martine Hennard Dutheil du Rochère. June 2013, Faculty Prize.
Philip Lindholm, Blindness and Insight in Lyrical Ballads and Other Selected Romantic Texts. Supervisor: Roelof Overmeer. June 2012, Faculty Prize.
Harley Edwards, Gustav Hasford’s Vietnam War Novels. Supervisor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Jan 2014.
Estell Hegglin, The Harry Potter saga. Supervisor: Kirsten Stirling. Aug 2015.
Sophie Toscan, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Margaret Drabble’s The Mill Stone, and Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach. Supervisor: Valérie Cossy. Jan 2016.
Loris Rimaz, Descente aux enfers: La présence et l’influence des récits de catabase dans Doom. Supervisor: Isaac Pente (Science du Language et de l’Information). June 2022. Faculty Prize.
Mathilde Fragnière, Narratives of the Future(s): Rewriting the Ideology of Progress in Solarpunk Short Stories. Supervisor: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Jan 2023.
Hakim Léo Sahal, How to Write a Novel Accidentally : The Effects and Relevance of Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous Prose. Supervisor: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Sept 2023.
Sarah Heinzelmann, “Pan, Who and What Art Thou?” Reading Peter through His Complex Relationship with Death in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Peter and Wendy, and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Supervisor: Kirsten Stirling. June 2025.
Léa Komatanos, Queering the Posthuman Subject in the Feminist Speculative Fictions of Marge Piercy, Octavia Butler and Ann Leckie. Supervisor: Valérie Cossy. June 2026.
MA supervision at University of Sheffield, 1993-2010
Alasdair Gray; Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy; Postmodern war narratives; Gender in Katabatic literature; Flann O’Brien and Paul Auster; Milan Kundera; Mervyn Peake; War in Children’s and Crossover Fiction; Ursula LeGuin and Philip Pullman.