This is not an exhaustive list of all PhDs awarded by French Studies but is an indication of the types of research individuals have carried out. We have gained permission of the individual before displaying the title of their thesis.
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Bruno Levasseur, PhD 2010 - ‘Representations of the cité des 4000 (La Courneuve)’
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Edward Boothroyd, PhD 2010 – ‘The Parisian Stage during the Occupation 1940-44: A Theatre of Resistance?’
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Kanshi Hiroko Sato, PhD 2009 - Masochism and Decadent Literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan.
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Rachel Luckman, PhD 2009 - Patterns of return and mimesis in Flaubert and Proust.
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Eric Place, PhD 2008 - Wehrmacht soldiers in Paris 1940-44
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Julie Summers, PhD 2004 - Writing on the Frontier': European Identification and the Drama of Bernard-Marie Koltès.
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Elizabeth Jones, PhD 2003 - Home space and cultural belonging in the twentieth century French and francophone life writings of Serge Doubrovsky, Hervé Guibert and Régine Robin.
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Jelka Samsom, PhD 2003 - Individuation and attachment in the works of Isabelle de Charrière.
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Rachel Luckman, MPhil 2003 - Deification and deflation: myth and religion in the work of Gustave Flaubert.
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Jillia Climo, MPhil 2003 - Gender representation in 1990s French cinema: Les Nuits fauves and Gazon maudit.
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Sara James, PhD 2001 - Capital tales: the urban mysteries of Eugene Sue and G.W.M Reynolds.
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Samantha Milton, PhD 2001 - The interaction of fiction and autobiography in modern and contemporary French self-life writing.
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Toby Lasserson, MPhil 2001 - Protest and prophecy: Esprit and the international role of France 1945-1963.
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Alison Fell, PhD 2000 - Representations of motherhood in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux.
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Sarah Fishwick, PhD 2000 - The body in the work of Simone de Beauvoir.
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Gerard Paul Sharpling, PhD 1999 - The role of the image in the prose writing of the French Renaissance.
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Chris Tinker, PhD 1999 - The songs of Leo Ferre, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: a study of personal and social narratives.
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Emma Tyler, PhD 1999 - The female subject in vernacular women's writing in the French Renaissance to 1560: rewriting the models in poetry and prose.
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Rachel Ashton, PhD 1998 - ‘The dwarf with the satchel': themes and archetypes in the work of Marie Redonnet.
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Paul Rowe, PhD 1997 - The “nouvelle revue Germanique” (Strasbourg 1829-1937): a mirror on the Rhine.
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Christine Everley, PhD 1997 - Intersubjectivity in early works of Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus.
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Ursula Tidd, PhD 1996 - Simone de Beauvoir: writing the self, writing the life.
Research theses
Our current postgraduate students are working on research theses in the following topics:
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New negotiations of the couple in contemporary French cinema.
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A narratological approach to middle English and old French hagiographical literature.
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The fact and fiction of West Indians and their children in mainland France since 1945.
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Girls in Vichy France.
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Surrealist Women.
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French, Italian and Anglophone feminist theory 1972-2004.
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Cultural memory/ies of Paris in Modiano, Haneke, Sebbar, Daeninckx and Maspéro.