Recent PhD research in Comparative Literature

Date	Name	PhD Research
In progress	Linetto Basilone	Allegories, Utopias and Chinoiseries. China and Italian Travel Literature in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.
In progress	Yuan Gao	Reception of Lin Yutang's English works in Mainland China, the USA, and Taiwan: Case studies of My Country and My People and Moment in Peking
In progress	Nisha Ghatak	Voice of Feminism and Social Rebellion in Women's Writing through Three Centuries from Three Countries – A Critical Appreciation of Works by Emily Bronte, Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das
In progress	Yue Zhang	Adaptation of traditional Chinese culture to the English world - A case study of Casual Expressions of Idle Feeling
In progress	Quan Zhou	A Study of Spatial Narrative in Chinese Diasporic Literature
2017	Yu-Wen Chih	The cultural representation of Taiwaneseness and Taiwanese nationalism in Li Qiao’s Wintry Night Trilogy
2017	Xiaowen Yang	Anatomy of murder and rape: A comparative study of crime writing by Chi Zijian, Alice Sebold, A Yi and Ian McEwan
2015	Yan Guo	A comparative study of physician-writers' representations of what makes a good doctor
2014	Marcelo Mendes De Souza	Toward a Latin American Irony: English Intertextuality and the Transnational Reception of Machado de Assis and Borges
2012	Manuela Cazan	Exorcising Communism: Three Case Studies: Czeslaw Milosz, Milan Kundera, Norman Manea
2012	Valentina Napoli	The Post-Colonial Noble Savage: A study of Witi Ihimaera’s Fiction
2012	David Williams	"Someone will have to clear away the ruins": Dubravka Ugrešić and Trümmerliteratur Redux
2011	Jung-hsuan Chen	Crafting lives: The evolution of identity in the works of Zhu Tianxin and Kapka Kassabova
2011	Zhang Haifeng	A Comparative Study of Shen Congwen and Witi Ihimaera as Indigenous Writers
2011	Ashwinee Pendharkar	Reading / Writing India Across Cultures: Comparative Study of Receptions of Three Indian English Texts Across Three Audiences and Two Languages
2010	Ruth Diver	Enfance et déracinment: Nathalie Sarraute, Romain Gary (Childhood Cultural Displacement and Creativity: Nathalie Sarraute, Romain Gary)
2010	Angela Kolling	Writing on the loose: Reading Florian Illies's Generation golf, Maurice G. Dantec's Périphériques, Joschka Fischer's Mein langer Lauf zu mir selbst, and Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the world as examples of creative nonfiction
2010	Clara Palleja-Lopes	Houses and horror: A sociocultural study of Spanish and American women writers
2009	Tanya Allport	Women Writing Trauma: An analysis of psychological trauma in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza, Christa Wolf’s Kassandra, Patricia Grace’s Cousins, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku’s Ruahine – Mythic Women
2008	Mei-Hui Sun	Patriarchal family systems in the stories of Katherine Mansfield and Zhang Ailing
2005	Mario Vrbancic	The Thing: The Unrepresentable in Postmodernism, Popular Culture and the Cinema
2004	Jacob Edmond	Writing on the Margins: The Experimental Poetry of Lyn Hejinian, Yang Lian, and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
2000	Susanna Scarparo	(Hi)stories of Women's Lives: Imagining the Past in Anna Banti's Artemisia, Maria Bellonci's Rinascimento privato, Susan Daitch's L.C., and Drusilla Modjeska's Poppy

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