PhDs

PhD supervision (University of Lausanne)

Amy Player, Doctoral Assistant in Modern English Literature (Assistant-diplômé) 2018-2023. New Nature Writing in the Anthropocene: Jay Griffiths, Kathleen Jamie and Robert Macfarlane, 2024. Faculty Prize 2024.

Philip Lindholm, Doctoral Assistant in Modern English Literature (Assistant-diplômé) 2012-2018. Synaesthesia in British Romanticism, 2018Faculty Prize 2019.

Rachel Nisbet, Doctoral Assistant in Interdisciplinary Studies (Assistant-diplômé) 2011-2018. Anthropocene River Narratives, 2018.

Présidente du jury de thèse (University of Lausanne)

Andrew Reilly, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Publication and Performance, 1709-1735, 2022.

John Bergstrom-Allen, Promoting and Policing Religious Speculation: The Vernacular Literature of the Carmelite Order in Medieval England, 2017.

PhD supervision (University of Sheffield)

Jennifer Adams, Magic Realism and Holocaust Fiction, 2010.

Mervat Al-Jomaa, Crossover Literature, Psychoanalytic and Reader Response Theory, 2010.

Yi Yin Lee, Space and Identity in Young Adult Literature, 2010.

Brendan Stone, Contemporary Autopathography and Narrative Theory, 2004.

Julie Scanlon, Contemporary Women’s Fiction and Feminist Theory, 2003.

Marcus Nevitt, Early Modern Women’s Writing, 2001.

Secondary PhD supervision (University of Sheffield)

Holocaust Literature, completed 2002
Theories of Agency in Bakhtin and Queer Studies, 2001.

Internal PhD examining (University of Sheffield)

Trauma, Utterance and Patterns in Holocaust Survivor Testimony, 2008
Poetry of John Berryman, 2008
European, Inter-War, Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2006
The novels of W.G. Sebald, 2005

External PhD examining

Lily Desau, Labouring Sounds: Labour and Ecology in the Poetry of John Clare, University of Geneva, 2024.

Megha Agarwal, ‘Anabasis and Katabasis in InfernoParadise LostFrankenstein and Heart of Darkness’, Goldsmith’s College, London University, June 2018.

Arnaud Barras, ‘Ecopoetic Metafiction: the Interaction of Organism and Environment in Postcolonial Literatures, University of Geneva, June 2016.

Susanna Gebhardt, ‘Early Modern English Wall-Writing: Memory and Textual Culture’, University of Geneva, Jan 2013.

Karian Schuitema, Children’s Theatre in the UK: Representing Cultural Diversity on Stage Through the Practices of Interculturalism, Multiculturalism and Internationalism, University of Westminster, London, April 2012.