Postgraduate Students

Masters Students

 

Rachel Connor

B.A. (Waikato), PGDip Arts English (Otago)

M.A. Topic: Memorials and the reputation of Criseyde in the works of Chaucer, Henryson, and Shakespeare.

Research Interests: Medieval literature, with a particular interest in how English and Scottish texts relate to French and High German. Medieval antifeminist literature. Early modern literature in English and French.

Rachel can be contacted at conra395@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Alexander Davis

B.A. English (Tampa, USA)

M.A. Topic: A Very Mobile Meal: Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast in 1964 and 2009

Research Interests: Modernism and postmodernism; modern American literature, especially Melville and Nabokov; Christian evangelical literature; Old English

Alexander can be contacted at agbdavis@gmail.com

 

Lynley Edmeades

B.A. Design (Otago), Dip. Photography (Massey), P.G. Dip. English Lit. (Victoria), M.A. Creative Writing, Dist. (Queens, Belfast).

M.A. Topic: "Exploring the relationship between text and music in the early works of John Cage".

Research Interests: Poetry and poetics; semiotics; musicology; philosophy of language; experimental music.

Lynley can be contacted at edmly021@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Joan Fleming

B.A. English (Victoria), M.A. Creative Writing (Victoria)

M.A. Topic: The iterative poetics of Anne Carson

Research Interests: Contemporary poetry

Joan can be contacted at hellojoanfleming@gmail.com

 

Rajdeep Guha

M.A. Topic: Family and diaspora in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai

 

 

Siwan Gwynne

M.A. Topic: The Relationship between Costume and the Interpretation of English Renaissance Dramas

 

Genevieve Scanlan

B.A.(Hons) English (Otago)

M.A. Topic: Modernism and Politics in the novels of Robin Hyde

Research Interests: Modernism; literary nationalism

Genevieve can be contacted at scage660@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Orchid Tierney

BA Hons (Otago), MCW (Auckland).

M.A. Topic: Rewiring the Avant-Gardes: Brian Stefans's Digital Poetics.

Research Interests: 20th/21st century poetry and poetics; new media theory; digital networks.

Orchid can be contacted at orchid@orchidtierney.com

 

Bradley Watson

M.A. Topic: Producing Culture through Repetition and Reiteration in T. Avia and S.T. Marsh's Poetry

 

Coda Wei

M.A. Toic: Feminist Poetics in Works by Bernadette Mayer & Alice Notley, and Connections with Contemporary Women Bloggers.

 

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PhD Students

 

Ashley Cook

Ph.D. Topic: Temporality in writing for children, 1840-1914

 

 

Catherine Dale

M.A. (First Class Honours) (Auckland)

Ph.D. Topic: The Problem of Antonin Artaud: Thought, Metaphysics, Body and Theatre.

Research Interests: The dynamic encounter between literature and philosophy; philosophical problems that appear, directly or indirectly, in literary texts and on the poetic and literary tendencies in philosophical and critical texts.

Catherine can be contacted at catherine.dale@otago.ac.nz

 

Damien Gibson

Ph.D. Topic: The Perennial Philosophy and Modern Utopian Fiction

 

 

Sharon Matthews

B.A.(Canterbury, New Zealand), P.G. Dip. English (Otago), M.A. English (Otago)

Ph.D. Topic: Archetypal structures in the plays of James K. Baxter

Research Interest: Twentieth century New Zealand plays and playwrights - with an emphasis on Baxter; New Zealand theatre; adult literacy

Sharon can be contacted at matsh661@student.otago.ac.nz

 

 

Bumbekile Ncube

Ph.D. Topic: Sources of Dysfunction in the Shaping of Postcolonial Masculine Identity: A Comparative Study of Selected Maori and Zimbabwean Fiction

 

Holly Phillips

M.St. English Literature (1900-Present), (Oxford, UK)
B.A.(First Class) English and Related Literature (York, UK)

Ph.D. Topic: Samuel Beckett and Scholasticism.

Research Interests: Twentieth-Century European Modernism(s); the influence of Medieval thought on the Modernist Aesthetic; Samuel Beckett; Virginia Woolf; Federico Garcia Lorca; Modernism and Philosophy; Synaethesia.

Holly can be contacted at phiho361@student.otago.ac.nz

Find out more about Holly at http://otago.academia.edu/HollyPhillips

 

Alison Stone

M.A. English (Otago)

Ph.D. Topic: Film Adaptations of Shakespeare

Research Interests: Film adaptations of Shakespeare; livecasting

Alison can be contacted at stoal952@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Yanwei Tan

Ph.D. Topic: The Aotearoa/NZ intellectual: through its fiction

 

 

Abid Vali

Ph.D. Topic: Transnational Poets

 

 

Neil Vallelly

B.A.(Hons) English and Modern History, M.A. English (Queen's, Belfast)

Ph.D. Topic: A study of how light was experienced by the early modern subject and the effect these embodied experiences had on theatre in the period (co-supervised by Shakespeare's Globe, London)

Research Interests: Early modern theatre; phenomenology; affect; cultural history.

Neil can be contacted at valne390@student.otago.ac.nz

Find out more about Neil at http://otago.academia.edu/NeilVallelly

 

Loveday Why

B.A.(Warwick)

Ph.D. Topic: A Poetics of Water: a comparative ecocritical study of water in contemporary poetry.

Research Interests: Cross-cultural contemporary poetry and poetics; comparative ecocriticism; cross-media poetry and performance.

Loveday can be contacted at lovedayrose@hotmail.com