Current PhD researchers

The School of English has a vibrant, active and multi-disciplinary portfolio of PhD and research projects. The research topic of each project, the student and their supervisor(s) is shown in the table below, in alphabetical order of the researcher's surname.

Name	Supervisor	Research topic
A-C
Atekah Abaalkhail AAbaalkhail1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Valerie Hobbs, Dr Nigel Harwood	A genre and move analysis of the statements of teaching Philosophy
Khaled Albalawi KAAlbalawi1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr Veronica Barnsley	Post Millennial British fiction
Rawa Alblowi RRAlblowi1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Veronica Barnsley, Professor Sue Vice	Fictional immigrant children in contemporary novels
Nouf Alotaibi namalotaibi1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jane Mulderrig, Dr Emma Moore	A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Saudi Women's Campaign against the Male-Guardianship System on Social Media
Shahla Adi Sadi1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Nigel Harwood, Dr Rola Naeb (Northumbria University)	Simultaneous Manipulation of Task Complexity along Planning Conditions: Impact on L2 Performance in Two Different Online Venues (Text & Voice Chat)
Samar AlGhamdi SAlGhamdi4@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Nigel Harwood, Dr Valerie Hobbs
Hesham Alruwaili HAMAlruwaili1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr V Barnsley, Dr S Whiteley	A comparative analysis of Atwood and El Saadawi from a feminist perspective
Anood Al Shibli asal-shibli1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Gabriel Ozon, Dr Nigel Harwood	Corpus linguistics, Curriculum Design, Second Language Acquisition, Writing Assessment
Sarah Alwin satalwin1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Veronica Barnsley, Dr Richard Steadman-Jones	Colonial and Post-colonial spatiality, domestic spaces, South East Asian writing
Angelina Ayers nrb04aa@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Dr Agnes Lehoczky	Academic and creative project researching how contemporary women of colour explore exile, belonging and citizenship in their writing
Cath Badham c.badham@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Stephen Nicholson, Dr Rachel Zerihan	The Plays of Philip Ridley: Space, Identity, Language
Gemma Ballard gballard1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jonathan Raynor, Dr Kate Taylor-Jones (SEAS)	Millennial South Korean cinema and its exploration of the postmodern cityscape and the 'self'
Emily-Rose Baker ERBaker1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr Carmen Levick	‘Perchance to dream’: reconceptualising sleep, dreams and the radical intersection of women, madness and capitalism
Nicolas Bax NBax1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Brendan Stone, Dr David Forrest	Mixed reality and nonlinear narratives
Noha Bayoumy NBayoumy@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Rachel Zerihan, Professor Frances Babbage	The performance of trauma in selected contemporary British plays
Chadwick Bentley CJBentley1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr David Forrest
Johanna Blakey Johanna.blakey@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Chris Montgomery, Dr Emma Moore	Dialect continuity and change in Sheffield
Dorothy Bowles DHBowles1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Tom Rutter, Dr Emma Rhatigan	A scholarly edition of Samuel Daniel's 'The Tragedie of Cleopatra'
Daniel Bowman DJBowman1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr John Miller, Dr Robert McKay	Horsepower: Animals in Automotive Culture 1895-1935
Richard Brown RMWBrown1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr Meredith Warrem	Resident elsewhere: coding and representation of Jewish diasporic narratives in the pre- and post-Holocaust matrix.
Heather Buchanan HLBuchanan1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Nigel Harwood, Dr Beatriz González-Fernández
Ellen Bulford Welch EMVBulfordWelch1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Andrew Smith, Dr Duco van Oostrum	Gothic Alter Egos: Anonymity and the Anxiety of Gothic Authorship in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Ashley Bullen-Cutting AJBullen-Cutting1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Agnes Lehoczky, Dr John Miller	Creative writing; ecocriticism
Lauren Butler Lmbutler1@sheffield.ac.uk	Prof Jane Hodson, Dr Julia Moses (History)	Household and estate community at Chatsworth in the nineteenth century, between 1811 and 1908
Emi Caley-Komine ECaley-Komine1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Robyn Orfitelli, Dr Kook-Hee Gil
Natalia Campos Martinez NMCamposMartinez1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Sara Whiteley, Professor Joanna Gavins
Fiona Clapperton Fcclapperton1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Jane Hodson, Dr Esme Cleall (Department of History)	Between Expectation and Experience: The Changing Social Realities of Life and Work upon the Chatsworth Estate 1908-1950 as Reflected within the Language used by the Community
Daniel Clarke dclarke1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jonathan Rayner, Prof. Duncan Petrie (University of York)	Wearing Historicity: genre, identity, and production values in the Hollywood Medieval
Tamsin Crowther tecrowther1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Andrew Smith, Dr Amber Regis	Ghosts in the Glass: Women at the Window in the Gothic Literature of the Brontës
Gemma Curto g.curto@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Katherine Ebury, Professor Joe Bray	Time, chaos and the implications for narrative
D-F
Holly Dann Hrdann1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Emma Moore, Dr Chris Montgomery	A Future for Cornish English?: An investigation into the effects of indexicality, contact, and identity on the Cornish dialect
Amanda Blake Davis Abdavis1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Madeleine Callaghan, Dr Anna Barton	Empathetic Androgyny in the Works of Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley
Matthew Dennison Matthew.Dennison@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Duco Van Oostrum, Professor Sue Vice	Morality and risk in mountaineering literature
Marta Donati MDonati1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Beryl Pong	Sound on the home front, 1914-1915
Jennifer Donnison JEDonnison1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Dr Robert McKay	Creative writing - extinctions through poetry
Benjamin Dorey ega05bcd@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Professor Brendan Stone	"The danger to be Sane": subjectification and 'mad' cartography in Post-Romantic poetry
Peter Dorey p.dorey@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Professor Joe Bray	Creative writing - the ergodic novels of Mark Z. Danielewski and the complexities of digital adaptation
Nathaniel Dziura nathaniel.dziura@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Emma Moore, Dr Robyn Orfitelli
Sally Eales saeales1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Jane Hodson, Dr Amber Regis	Communities of Practice: A linguistic study of intimacy and representation in British domestic service
Rosa Escanes Sierra r.escanes.sierra@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jane Mulderrig, Professor Colin Hay (Department of Politics)	Morality in times of crisis: the linguistic framing of inequality in elite political discourse in the UK
Catherine Evans crevans1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Emma Rhatigan, Dr Marcus Nevitt	Sensing time in early modern religious literature
Reem Fattani Rfattani1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Valerie Hobbs, Dr Richard Steadman-Jones	Investigating lexical bundles in academic writing materials on an eap pre-sessional course
Veronica Fibisan vfibisan1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Dr Agnes Lehoczky	A Practice-based Approach in Ecocritical Poetic Explorations in the Landscape of the British Shoreline
Richard Finn r.finn@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Joanna Gavins, Dr Sara Whiteley	Experience of mental illness in comics
Celine Frohn cajfrohn1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Andrew Smith, Dr John Miller	Penny bloods of the 1830s and 1840s and way of thinking about gender and sexual difference
G-I
Mary Going mlrgoing1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Angela Wright, Professor Andrew Smith	An Exploration of Judaism within Romantic and Gothic fiction between 1790 and 1820
Vicky Grant v.grant@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Brendan Stone, Dr Bernard M Corfe (Department of Oncology & Metabolism)	Knowing as Healing: narratives of irritable bowel syndrome. An appreciative inquiry
Joy Gravestock JFGravestock1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Brendan Stone, Dr Anthony Williams (Department of Psychology)	Exploration of the contribution that music therapy can make to the contemporary process and lived experiences of adoption
Owen Gurrey oagurrey1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Katherine Ebury, Dr Jonathan Ellis	John Burnside and the Question of Ecology
Lucy Hamilton Lphamilton@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Frances Babbage, Dr Bill McDonnell	Dual creative/critical project maps identity in and of post-colonial Hong Kong
Emily Hammerton-Barry EKHammerton-Barry1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Duco Van Oostrum, Professor Sue Vice	Marilynne Robinson
Jessica Hannington jhannington1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jonathan Ellis, Dr Jonathan Rayner	After Annie Hall: Woody Allen’s Influence on Contemporary American Cinema
Bina Hartwell BKHartwell1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Brendan Stone, Dr Anthony Williams (Department of Psychology), Dr Chris Wood, Dr David Forrest	Can art therapy contribute to rehabilitation by helping offenders understand their histories and interrupt patterns of self-harm?
Peter Harvey pjharvey1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Joanna Gavins, Dr Sara Whiteley	How cognitive sciences can help us understand how we comprehend life narratives
Jo Henderson-Merrygold j.henderson-merrygold@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Katie Edwards, Dr Hugh Pyper	Sarah and the Hermeneutics of Cis-picion: Genderqueering a biblical matriarch
Alice Higgs ahiggs1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Bob McKay, Dr John Miller	Animals in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
Alison Horgan ALHorgan1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Hamish Mathison, Dr Madeleine Callaghan	'An infinite farrago of ancient songs': Fragments and form in Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Rachel Hughes RLHughes1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr David Forrest	'An infinite farrago of ancient songs': Fragments and form in Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Maria Hussain MHussain3@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Valerie Hobbs, Dr Nigel Harwood
Jacqueline Ingham jingham2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Kook-Hee Gil, Dr Ranjan Sen	L1 transfer of prosodic representations in the spoken production of L2 inflectional morphology
J-L
Amy Jackson AJackson8@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Tom Rutter, Professor Angela Wright	On whether this is a pre-history of the Gothic in Renaissance Literature
Maryam Jameela MJameela1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice	Intersectional representations of desi women in post-9/11 film and literature
Sarah Jackson Sarah.L.Jackson@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Joanna Gavins, Dr Sara Whiteley
Cora James CJames5@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Marcus Nevitt, Dr Tom Rutter	Aphra Behn
Elna Johnson EJohnson5@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Marcus Nevitt, Professor Cathy Shrank	Visions of themselves: women writing women, 1649-1689
Loma Jones LSHJones1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Agnes Lehoczky, Professor Adam Piette	Fractured identities: British nationalism to transnational decoloniality
Gaurika Kapoor GKapoor1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Carmen Levick, Dr Jonathan Raynor	An Examination of the film and television adaptations of the fiction writings of Margaret Atwood
Elli Karampela EKarampela1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Angela Wright, Dr Madeleine Callaghan	Trembling bodies: English Romanticism and the politics of fear
Shahzad Karim SKarim2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Nigel Harwood, Dr Kook-Hee Gil
Gregory Keenan GNKeenan1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jonathan Ellis, Dr Fabienne Collignon	Conceptions of home in twentieth century American cinema
Chang Liu CLiu56@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Nigel Harwood, Dr Valerie Hobbs
Yi Liu YLiu183@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Kook-Hee Gil, Dr Beatriz González-Fernández	The acquisition of mass/count distinction in English by Chinese EFL learners
M-O
Laila M. Alhazmi lalhazmi1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Chris Montgomery, Prof Susan Fitzmaurice	Perceptions of Western Saudi dialects from an attitudinal approach
Ahmad Mahfouz egs11am@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Steve Nicholson, Dr Bill McDonnell	The Political Theatre of Muhhamed Al-Maghut
Raman Malik RMalik1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Anna Barton, Professor Angela Wright	Subdued and misrepresented child voices in British fantasy literature in the 18th and 19th centuries
Mariyah Mandu MMandu1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Madeleine Callaghan, Dr Anna Barton	Dark pastoral in Romantic poetry
Joe Mansfield Ega08jtm@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Robert McKay, Dr John Miller	Literature, Science and Great Apes: Relationships between primate fiction and cognitive ethology since 1945
Emily R. Marlow e.marlow@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Katie Edwards, Dr Meredith Warren	Religion, Gender & Sexuality in Video Game Narratives
Alexander Marsh AJMarsh2@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Dr Agnes Lehoczky	Creative writing
Alex Mason amason2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Rachel Van Duyvenbode, Dr Duco van Oostrum	Race and Space in America’s Educational Institutions
Sophie Maxwell SMaxwell1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Fabienne Collignon, Professor Adam Piette	Paranoia, photography, and the human form in Cold War narratives
Katrina Mayson kemayson1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jonathan Ellis, Professor Joe Bray	Elizabeth Bishop: The Lives of Objects
Pauline McCaffrey PMcCaffrey1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr David Forrest	Television drama
Deirdre McConnell dmcconnell@sheffield.ac.uk	Prof. Brendan Stone, Prof. Tom Billington, Dr Chris Wood, Dr David Forrest	School-based Art Therapy; Narratives; Creativity; Social, Emotional well-being and Mental Health; Trauma; Critical Psychology; Art-based Research
Nigel McLoughlin NFMcLoughlin1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Joanna Gavins, Dr Sara Whiteley
Amber McNamara acmcnamara1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Sam Ladkin, Prof. Adam Piette	Contemporary Canadian poetry from 1960s onwards
Timothy Moffatt tmoffatt1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Adam Piette, Dr Jonathan Rayner, Dr Carmen Levick	Andrei Tarkovsky’s films from a hauntological perspective and investigating ideas around abjection signified on screen in relation to the Stalinist period of Socialist Realism
Hannah Moss egp07hmm@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Joe Bray, Prof. Angela Wright	The Aesthetics of Terror: Art and Architecture in the Female-Authored Gothic Novel, 1783-1818
Arta Musollaj AMusollaj1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Chris Montgomery	Attitudes towards regional and minority languages in Kosovo
Molly Murray MMurrary2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Rachel Zerihan, Dr Michael Kindellan	Stasis and motion in the New York School: Frank O'Hara, Morton Feldman, and Merce Cunningham
Aysha Winstanley Musa Amusa1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Katie Edwards, Dr Meredith Warren	Challenging Jael's Gender. Jael is not a Woman, Jael is Gender Ambiguous
Abigail Mynett AOMynett1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Amber Regis, Professor Sue Vice	Holocaust testimonies of the 1950's/1960's and the influence of life writing
Soraya Nabipour sjnabipour1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Frances Babbage, Dr Rachel Zerihan	A laboratory of the self: Complicating notions of selfhood in post-postmodern theatre and performance
Emma Nagouse e.nagouse@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Jane Hodson, Dr Casey Strine (Department of History)	Rape Culture, Feminist Literary Criticism, Rape Culture and the Bible
Helen Newsome h.newsome@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Graham Williams	A Pragmatic Analysis of the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)
Ellen Nicholls Ernicholls1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Madeleine Callaghan, Dr Katherine Ebury	The ‘Aching Pleasure’ of Keats’s Poetry
Lauren Nixon l.nixon@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Angela Wright, Professor Andrew Smith	Conflicting Masculinities: The figure of the soldier in Gothic literature, 1764-1826
Nick Nuttgens NJNuttgens1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Bill McDonnell, Dr Frances Babbage	Exploring Applied Theatre as a tool for facilitating dialogue about, and stimulating action on, climate change
Funmilayo Obukadeta Fmolonipile1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Susan Fitzmaurice, Dr Jane Mulderrig	Language Policy and Planning in the broadcast media of a multilingual context
Christie Oliver-Hobley cjoliver-hobley1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Robert McKay, Dr Madeleine Callaghan	Representations of animals in contemporary culture
Charlotte O'Niell CONeill2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr John Miller, Dr Robert McKay	Edward Carpenter: beyond the human
P-S
Maria Pace Aquilina MPaceAquilina1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Cathy Shrank, Dr Marcus Nevitt	The education and representation of women in early Tudor England
Ming Panha mpanha1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr John Miller, Dr Amber Regis	The relationship between the human and the nonhuman in Sherlock Holmes' fictions by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hannah Pinnock hannah.pinnock@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Brendan Stone, Professor Andrew Smith	Lost Stories of the “Insane”: Narrating Mental Illness in the Nineteenth-Century
Felicity Powell FPowell2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Katherine Ebury, Dr Jonathan Ellis	Oral tradition, technology and primal mentality in the works of Ted Hughes and other 20th Century Poets
Emily Reed ereed2@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Graham Williams, Dr Charlotte Steenbrugge, Professor Susan Fitzmaurice	The Performance of Social Ideals in the Manières de Langage
Lucy Rees LJRees1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Jane Mulderrig, Professor Brendan Stone
Amini Sa-idi asa-idi1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Susan Fitzmaurice, Dr Oksana Afitska	The Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Malay Muslims in Southernmost Provinces of Thailand
Peter Sands pwsands1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Fabienne Collignonn, Dr Bob McKay	Androgyny as a vehicle of mental revolution in the poetry and prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Christopher Scott CMScott1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Andrew Smith, Dr John Miller	Anthropocentrism and the ecoGothic monster in fin-de-siècle and Edwardian "weird" fiction
Arazoo Shakur AIShakur1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Richard Steadman-Jones, Professor Sue Vice	Homelessness and the quest for identity in the novels of V.S. Naipaul
Moe Shoji m.shoji@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Frances Babbage, Dr Rachel Zerihan	‘Paratext’ in Contemporary Theatre Practice
Rebecca Simon rwosimon1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Robert McKay, Dr John Miller	Creatural Philo-Fiction: Thinking the Animal-Without- Animality
Carly Stevenson cstevenson2@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Angela Wright, Professor Andrew Smith	John Keats and the Gothic Aesthetic
Kirsty Surgey kmsurgey1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Carmen Levick, Dr Bill McDonnell	Sharing Stories: Using performance to articulate relationships between public, private, personal and professional histories.
T-V
Bryn Tales BJTales1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr David Forrest, Dr Michael Kindellan	Creative writing: fragments from a crisis: the mythemes of poetic imagery
Cecilia Tricker-Walsh CTricker-Walsh1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Robert KcKay, Dr John Miller	Theories of loss in cultural representations of extinction
Tamás Varga tvarga1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Sara Whiteley, Dr Renee Timmers (Department of Music)	Music and Emotional Experience in Literary Discourse
Hielke Vriesendorp hadvriesendorp1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Emma Moore, Dr Chris Montgomery	The cognitive side to sociolinguistic speech perception
W-Z
Rachel Walker r.c.walker@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Bill McDonnell, Professor Steve Nicholson	Peter Cheeseman and the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on- Trent: to what extent can theatre-in-the-round be instrumental in enabling the regeneration of a region?
Hannah Wallace HWallace1@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Jane Hodson
Ayano Watanabe AWatanabe1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Chris Montgomery, Dr Gabriel Ozon	What song lyrics tell us about people?: sociolinguistic style in popular music songs from the UK and Sheffield
Diane Webber DNWebber1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Robert KcKay, Dr John Miller	Meat consumption and the idea of animal resources
Alexander White AWhite6@sheffield.ac.uk	Professor Sue Vice, Dr Jonathan Ellis	Postmemory and inherited trauma
Richard Woodall rwoodall1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Fabienne Collignon, Professor Adam Piette	The ways in which our ideas about and experiences of the human face are shaped by the visual technologies (photography, film, digital tech) which mediate it
Abdullah Yildiz AYildiz1@sheffield.ac.uk	Dr Nigel Harwood, Dr Richard Steadman-Jones	A comparative analysis of language teaching textbooks from the perspective of publishers and consumers