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:

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

'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.

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

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

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

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

I am currently supervising two research topics:

A PhD on Reader Response Theory, focussing on Stanley Fish and Wolfgang Iser.

'Fearful of History: Depictions of Decay in the Writing of Hawthorne and Melville'