Doctoral researchers in English Literature

The Department of English Literature has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below:

Rebekah Cunningham

Rebekah Cunningham

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Game Changers: Videogames as reciprocal and dynamic entities in transatlantic digital culture
Supervisors: Dr Matt Hayler (University of Birmingham), Dr Rex Ferguson (University of Birmingham), Dr Alison Harvey (University of Leicester)

Elaine Goodey

Elaine Goodey

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: The publications of police detectives 1880 - 1930: Genre, identity and the consumption of crime
SupervisorsDr Rex Ferguson, Dr Melissa Dickson and Dr Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)

PhD English Literature

Min Li

Min Li

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality: An Intersectional Reading of Carson McCullers' Works
SupervisorsDr John Fagg and Dr Rona Cran

Jayde Martin

Jayde Martin

Doctoral researcher

PhD title: Mutations,Manipulation, and Metamorphosis: Representations of Genetic Change and Species Identity in Feminist Long-form Contemporary Science-Fiction Literature, 1987-2018

Supervisors: Professor John Holmes, Dr Matt Hayler and Dr Emil Toescu

PhD Contemporary Transatlantic Science Fiction

Recently completed doctoral research

The University of Birmingham etheses repository contains a wide selection of full text research theses from the Department of English.