English Literature research students

Get to know our English Literature students and gain an insight into their research.

Students are listed alphabetically under their respective degrees.

MA in English Literature

Frankie Goodenough

Literary Outliers: Science, Environment, and Radical Difference in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Supervisors: Adam Grener

Kiran Patel

The Past as the Present: Fictional Representations of the 1947 Partition of India

Supervisors: Anna Jackson and Bonnie Etherington

PhD in English Literature

Pania Ellison

'Māori Readers and Indigenous Literatures: A Kaupapa Māori Story'

Supervisors: Tina Makereti & Donna Cormack (University of Otago)

Jay Forlong

Climate Change is Weird

Supervisors: Dougal McNeill and Tim Corballis

Mala Hernawati

Gothic Oceanic Voices in Contemporary Nautical Fiction

Supervisors: Adam Grener and Bonnie Etherington

Younes Poorghorbanali

Oscar Wilde's Female Characters and Class

Supervisors: Charles Ferrall and Geoff Miles

Sarah Hasanat

Pseudo-utopia; Reading Science Fiction as Resistance Literature.

Supervisors: Anna Jackson and Dougal McNeill

Austin Haynes

Literary Translation between Te Reo Maori and English, 1870 - 1940

Supervisors: Nikki Hessell and Sarah Ross

Polly Hoskins

Female Matrix: Twentieth Century Short Stories by New Zealand Women

Supervisors: Nikki Hessell and Jane Stafford

Eleanor Toland

Katabasis for Little Readers: Journeys through the Underworld in Victorian and Edwardian Children’s Fiction

Supervisors: Charles Ferrall and Jane Stafford

Sraddha Venkataraman

Expressive Silence in the Poetry of Keats and Clare

Supervisors: Heidi Thomson and Nikki Hessell

Yinqi Zhao

Reconstruct the Unreliability: An Approach to Duomining

Supervisors: Dougal McNeill and Adam Grener