Students Studying for a Research Degree
Please note that this is a list of all our PhD and MPhil students who wish to make their contact details publicly available. As such, it provides an illustrative sample of the interests and topics pursued by our research students, but it is not comprehensive.
In total, we currently have around 100 students studying for a research degree with us.
| Name | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| ALBADER, Yousuf | egp11yba@sheffield.ac.uk | Polysemy in Kuwaiti Arabic: A Lexical Semantic Approach |
| AYACHE, Solange | s.ayache@sheffield.ac.uk | Theatres of the Mental Space: towards a Psychopoetics of the Stage |
| BADHAM, Cath | egp09cmb@sheffield.ac.uk | The Plays of Philip Ridley, their Productions and Critical Responses |
| BALDOCK, Sophie | sophie.baldock@sheffield.ac.uk | The End of Letter Writing? Correspondence from 1900 to the Present Day |
| BATES, Michael | mrbates1@sheffield.ac.uk | Environmental Representation and Engagement in the works of Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald |
| BENNETT, Mark | mark.bennett@sheffield.ac.uk | From Libraries to Landscapes: Travel Writing and the Cultural Location of Gothic Fiction, 1700-1797 |
| BOWLER, Dr Rebecca | r.bowler@sheffield.ac.uk | Literary modernism and fin de siècle literary impressionism. Visual perception, visual culture and technologies (photography, cinema, fashion, painting, etc) in early 20th century fiction, particularly the fiction of Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and May Sinclair. |
| BRADBURY, Janine | janinebradbury@sheffield.ac.uk | Passing as Trope in African American Women's Fiction |
| BROWN, Lucy | egp10lvb@sheffield.ac.uk | Devotion as a theme in sensational works of Wilkie Collins and Edmund Yates |
| BROWSE, Sam |
s.browse@sheffield.ac.uk | Metaphor in op-ed articles about the 2008 economic crisis. I'm specifically interested in developing a 'text-driven' approach to metaphor in discourse |
| BURLAND, Kate |
kate.burland@sheffield.ac.uk | Where the Black Country meets ‘Black Barnsley’: Dialect variation and identity in an ex-mining community of Barnsley |
| BURNES, Sue | s.j.burnes@sheffield.ac.uk | The pragmatics of metaphor in British and French political newspaper reporting |
| BUT, Roxanne |
r.but@sheffield.ac.uk | Language with attitude: A historical sociolinguistic study on the uses and perceptions of slang in England, 1750-1850 |
| CHIB, Sonia |
ega03sc@sheffield.ac.uk | A sociolinguistic investigation into children's acquisition of dialect features |
| COLBECK, Matt |
m.colbeck@sheffield.ac.uk | The representation of coma and brain injury in literature and film |
| Escanes Sierra, Rosa | r.escanes.sierra@sheffield.ac.uk | The discursive strategies regarding '(in)equality' and 'fairness' in the public narrations of the economic crisis in Spain and in the UK, 2008-2012. |
| ESCOTT, Hugh |
h.f.escott@sheffield.ac.uk | Dialect representation in the work of twentieth century writers from South Yorkshire coal-mining communities |
| FINN, Richard | r.finn@sheffield.ac.uk | Embodiment, cognition and emotion in graphic narrative, with a focus on educational comic book adaptations of Frankenstein. |
| FIRTH. Liam |
lpfirth1@sheffield.ac.uk | 'Perfection of the life, or of the work': W. B. Yeats after Ethical Criticism |
| FROST, William | egp12wf@sheffield.ac.uk | Under Northern Skies: English-speaking tourists' encounter with Norway 1750-1930 |
| GADSBY-MACE, Catherine | c.gadsby-mace@shef.ac.uk | The geographical domestication of eighteenth & early nineteenth century Gothic literature. |
| HOPSON, Jackie | j.hopson@sheffield.ac.uk | Representations of the psychiatrist in modern English and American fiction |
| HUDSON, Kathleen | hudsonk1@sheffield.ac.uk | English Literature: 19th century and late 18th century studies |
| IBRAHIM, Anna |
egp10ai@sheffield.ac.uk | The goal of my thesis is to seek compatibility of linguistic understanding of bilingualism with the neural and neurolinguistic data |
| INOSTROZA, Maria Jesus | minostroza1@sheffield.ac.uk | Teaching EFL to Young Learners in Large Classes |
| KIRKHAM, Sam |
sam.kirkham@sheffield.ac.uk | Ethnicity, style and phonetic variation in Sheffield English |
| LOW, Suk May (Joyce) Low | sukmay.low@sheffield.ac.uk | Code-switching in multilingual classroom |
| LUND, Sarah Frances | sarah.lund@sheffield.ac.uk | Study of attitudes to 'ownership' of English as a second language |
| MAHFOUZ, Ahmed | egs11am@sheffield.ac.uk | The political theatre of Muhammed Al-Maghut |
| McCANN, Mat | mdfmccann1@sheffield.ac.uk | Imaginary deserts: Fiction and travel in the shadow of the Bomb 1945-2001 |
| MENMUIR, Alasdair |
a.menmuir@shef.ac.uk | Democracy and Dialectics: British Literature 1914-1939 |
| MOORE, Bridie | blmoore1@sheffield.ac.uk | The Performance of Age and Ageing in Contemporary British Theatre |
| MORT, Helen | Connection-making in neuroscience and contemporary poetry, with a focus on the work of Norman MacCaig, John Burnside and Paul Muldoon | |
| NGUYEN, Cang | egp10ctn@sheffield.ac.uk | English Language Materials Evaluation |
| NONOMIYA, Ayumi | egs11an@sheffield.ac.uk | Second-person pronouns in eighteenth-century British dramas |
| PALLARÉS GARCIA, Elena | e.pallares@sheffield.ac.uk | The narrative techniques used in Jane Austen’s works to represent the sensory perceptions of characters, and the connections between these techniques and point of view |
| PHAN, Trang | t.phan@sheffield.ac.uk | The syntax of Vietnamese verbal aspect |
| ROBINSON, Thom | thomasrobinson84@hotmail.com | ‘”Bound to the Past”: Nostalgia in the Work of William S. Burroughs’ |
| RYDER, Lykara | l.ryder@sheffield.ac.uk | Examples of author-created languages, or conlangs, in books across genres and time periods |
| SALMON, Laura | laura.salmon@sheffield.ac.uk | Madness and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction |
| SCHWARTZ-LEEPER, Gavin | g.schwartzleeper@sheffield.ac.uk | This Butcher's Cur: Sixteenth Century Literary Representations of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey |
| SHOJI, Moe | m.shoji@sheffield.ac.uk | 'Paratext' in Contemporary Theatre Practice |
| SMITH, Adam James | egp10ajs@sheffield.ac.uk | Periodical Print and the Preface: Constructions of Identity in the Early Periodicals of Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe and Richard Steele, 1679-1735 |
| SMITH, Edward | edward.smith@sheffield.ac.uk | BL, Additional MS 36529: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Literary and Manuscript Culture |
| TARANTELLI, Valentina | egp09vt@sheffield.ac.uk | History of Linguistic Transcription |
| THEW, Emily | e.thew@sheffield.ac.uk | Ill Bodies, Animal Bodies and Grieving Bodies in Contemporary Literature |
| VAN DER BOM, Isabelle | i.vanderbom@sheffield.ac.uk | A Text World Theory approach to oral narratives of identity |
| WALLIS, Christine | c.wallis@sheffield.ac.uk | Dialect and textual transmission in the Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica |
| WALTERS, Peter | egp10pjw@sheffield.ac.uk | ‘Narrative in Fiction and Film: A Practical Study of the Nature of Cross-Pollination in Narrative Structure’ |
| WILLIAMS, Claire Bryony | c.b.williams@sheffield.ac.uk | Semi-documentary edition of early modern poetry miscellany National Art Library (Great Britain) MS. Dyce 44 |
| WINDLE, Jack | j.windle@sheffield.ac.uk | Class, Culture and Colonialism: Twentieth Century Working-Class Writing |
| YOUSEFI. Yalda | egr11yy@sheffield.ac.uk | The Representation of Maternity, Surrogacy, and Adoption in Women’s Writing of the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century |
| ZARQANE, Samir | s.zarqane@sheffield.ac.uk | Non-native speakers' interpretations of aspect and mood contrasts in L2 French |
| ZHAO, Qianqian | qzhou2@sheffield.ac.uk | Chinese Complementary Schools in the UK |
| ZHAO. Shuai | s.zhao@sheffield.ac.uk | ESL postgraduate students' academic English writing development in the UK |