University of Strathclyde

Department of
English Studies
Glasgow G1 1XH
0141-552 4400

I am interested in supervising research students in the following areas: literature, philosophy, science and political discourse in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods; the language of poetry; children's literature; literary theory.

I have supervised a number of successful PhD. topics:

Vassiliki Kolocotroni, 'Revolutions of the Modern: A Study of the Conceptual Problematic of Aesthetic Modernity from Kant to Kristeva' (1994), examined by Maud Ellmann.

Darrell Hinchcliffe, 'The Writing Masters: A Critical Account of the Relationship Between Speech and Writing in the Orthographic Reform Debate of the 16th Century with Special Reference to Richard Mulcaster's The Elementary (1582)' (1994), examined by John Drakakis.

Linda Crilly, 'A Comparative Study: Woolf and Nietzsche, Subjectivity and Power' (1995) examined by Christine Battersby.

Lena W. Gray, 'A Woman('s) Writer? Some Issues in Feminist Reading of the Work of Rosamond Lehmann' (1995), examined by Gill Frith.

Ronnie Buchanan Young, 'The Discourse of Human Nature: The Science of Man in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (2002), examined by Susan Manning.

Claire Elizabeth Burton, 'The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: An Analysis of the Characterisation and Interaction between Villainy and Virtue in the Gothic Genre, 1764-1818' (2005), examined by Emma Clery.

Abdolmohammad Movahhed, ‘Context and Constraints in Stanley Fish's Reader-Response Theory’ (2009), examined by Derek Attridge.

I am currently supervising two research topics:

Depictions of Decay in the Writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A Comparative Study of Malaysian and British Children's Literature