Current PhD students within English, Drama and Writing Studies
Current PhD students
| Name | PhD research | |
|---|---|---|
| John Gordon Adams | yellowskip@xtra.co.nz | Lexical Grammars for New Poetry: Joan Retallack's poethical alchemy |
| Joseph Christopher William Barnes | joe.barnes@auckland.ac.nz | Herman Melville's fiction in conversation with Hegel's master and slave dialectic |
| Sristi Bhattarai | sristi@gmail.com | Minor Travels: The Aesthetics of Travel in Postcolonial Fiction |
| Eleanor Margaret Bloomfield | e.bloomfield@auckland.ac.nz | York Evolving: Change and Permanence in the York Mystery Play Cycle |
| Mark Wayne Bond | markwaynebond@gmail.com | The transgressive imaginary and male homosexual desire in literature 1940-1970 |
| Michael Jon Cole | mcol042@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Written into the City: Reading Literary Scale in Two African Metropolises |
| Xiaojun Ding | zeromom@163.com | A Hongi of Sorts": a Literary "va" Connecting Taiwan to the Pacific through Metaphors |
| Katea Maria Duff | kduf011@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Heretical Ecstasy in Twentieth Century Literature |
| Anna Grant | agra111@aucklanduni.ac.nz | From Mr. Darcy to Mr. Big: An evolutionary-feminist account of love and choice in popular romantic fiction |
| Severi Luoto | s.luoto@auckland.ac.nz | Sensory and cognitive pleasures as catalysts for romantic love |
| Natasha Nina Maharaj | nmah037@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Diasporic Dramas: “Grandmother’s Watch” |
| Maria Mitenkova | mmit856@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Embattled Fictions: New Zealand Literary Intellectuals and their Publics |
| Bryonny Alyssia Muir | bryonny@gmail.com | Bringing Up The Bodies: Golden Age Detective Fiction and the Buried Past 1920-1970 |
| Robin Joyce Peters | rjjlpeters@hotmail.com | Papatuanuku's Progeny: First Wave Maori Women Poets |
| Pedro Ramos Ilgenfritz Da Silva | pdas008@aucklanduni.ac.nz | The Dramaturgy of the Actor: ‘Le Jeu’ as the dramaturgical element in acting training |
| Thomas James Romeo Jr | trom448@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Narrative flights: Searching for spiritual homes in the wilderness |
| Wei Yao | wyao196@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Traumas in Selected Works by Chinese American Women Writers, from 1909-2009 |
| Qian Zhang | qzha779@aucklanduni.ac.nz | The Cinematic Interpretation of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage |
| Jingjing Zhao | jzha418@aucklanduni.ac.nz | Emily Brontë and Four Romantic and Post-Romantic Writers—Intellectual Trends in 19th-Century Europe |
