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2024

Jenkinson, Jade (2024) Educational Gothic: Interrogating Violent Educations in Australian, Canadian and United States Fictions 1960-present. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Sikand-Youngs, Nathaniel Rajinder (2024) Writing California, 1848-1915. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2023

Beestone, Kelly (2023) Exploring trends and tropes in young adult fantasy literature from the U.S. since 2005. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Eklund, Erik (2023) A Triptych of Bottomless Light: Repetition, Identity and Transcendence in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Harrison, Andrew (2023) Gender, education and family dynamics in Jewish-American fiction: 1915-1930. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2022

Dyer-Johnson, Omara Samirah (2022) Imagining a Better World: Black Futurity in Contemporary Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Eglen, Lauren (2022) “The Heart of the Collective”: Black Left Feminism, Black Women’s Intellectual History and Freedomways Magazine, 1930-1985. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2021

Davies, Caitlin (2021) "I want to define myself by what I am instead of what I am not": Examining Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary US Graphic Memoirs. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Micheli, Grazia (2021) Worlding Asian American Literature: Transnationalism, Hemispherism, Planetarity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2020

Sikand-Youngs, Nathaniel Rajinder (2020) Space, place, and literary representations of the landscapes of California, 1880-1917. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2019

Green, Michelle (2019) New Body, new me?: fat women characters in North American fiction, 1976-2013. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hughes, T. (2019) America's imagined revolution: narrative and politics in the historical novel of Reconstruction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2018

Beestone, Kelly (2018) Charting American Habitus: an analysis of ‘middlebrow’ fiction and its readership through the prism of Donna Tartt’s published novels. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hamilton, Katie (2018) Reproducing the South: William Faulkner, pregnancy and the contemporary US novel. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Johnson, Hollie (2018) The ecocidal imagination: dystopian fiction in an era of environmental crisis. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Tang, Fang (2018) Imagining home: literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women’s literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2017

Donner, Mathieu (2017) Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hasan, Arwa (2017) Readers and text worlds of dystopia. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Murray, Hannah Lauren (2017) Inexplicable voices: liminal whiteness in Antebellum American fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Stewart-Shaw, Lizzie (2017) The cognitive poetics of horror fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Thornhill, Christopher John (2017) Trying the stuff of creation: biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2016

Castiglione, Davide (2016) Difficulty in Anglo-American poetry: a linguistic and empirical perspective. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Eaton, Margaret Mary Catherine (2016) Frank confessions: performance in the life-writings of Frank McCourt. MPhil thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lennon, Gavan (2016) The segregated town in mid-century southern fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2015

Assella, Shashikala Muthumal (2015) Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction: the "difference". PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Monkman, James (2015) John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2014

Camastra, Małgorzata Maria (2014) "When does it stop? Does it ever stop?" - the business of being a guy: men and masculinities in Carol Shields's novels. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Janicker, Rebecca (2014) Halfway houses: liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Pickford, Benjamin (2014) Double writing: Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2013

King, Daniel Robert (2013) "Your side of the street": Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2012

Foster, Tim (2012) Escaping the split-level trap: postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2010

Phair, Charles A.J. (2010) Navigating the Transatlantic threshold: James Fenimore Cooper and the revolutionary Atlantic. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2009

Benlemlih, Bouchra (2009) Inhabiting the exotic: Paul Bowles and Morocco. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gorton, Ceri Martha (2009) "The things that attach people": a critical literary analysis of the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2008

Nash, Catherine (2008) Technology in the work of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2007

Moynihan, Sinéad (2007) Fictions of law and custom: passing narratives at the fins des siècles. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2006

Imms, Rhiannon (2006) Landscape as language: a comparative study of selected works by Susan Howe and Daphne Marlatt. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2005

Loman, Lilia (2005) Suicide-authors: a deconstructive study. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2004

Hutchison, Anthony (2004) Writing the Republic: liberalism and morality in American political fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2003

Gregoriou, Christiana (2003) The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2002

Bernier, Celeste-Marie (2002) "Dusky powder magazines": the Creole revolt (1841) in nineteenth century American literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bone, Martyn (2002) Postsouthern cartographies: capital, land and place from 'The Moviegoer' to 'A man in full'. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1998

Eadie, Jo (1998) Embodied politics and extreme disgust: an investigation into the meanings of bodily order and bodily disorder, with particular reference to the work of William Burroughs and David Cronenberg. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Holman, Rupert (1998) Memorializing, allegory and the rewriting of Nathaniel Hawthorne. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1997

Harrison, Colin (1997) Heretical necessity: Herman Melville and the fictions of charity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1994

Nesteruk, Peter (1994) Referentiality and transgression: representations of incest and child sexual abuse in American literature of the twentieth century. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1992

Skelley, Steven J. (1992) Yeats, Bloom and the dialectics of theory, criticism and poetry. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1988

Smith, Hazel (1988) The sense of neurotic coherence: structural reversals in the poetry of Frank O'Hara. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1985

Dorling, Alan (1985) Experimental forms in contemporary fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1980

Madocks, Rodney (1980) The incomplete text and the ardent core: the role of unfulfilment in the work of Vladimir Nabokov. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walenda, Marianne Kate (1980) Vladimir Nabokov's comic quest for reality. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1978

Mackenzie, Ursula A. (1978) The reaction against realism in contemporary American fiction: a study of the work of John Hawkes, John Barth and Thomas Pynchon. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.