Postgraduate supervision
Prof Thomas welcomes applications in the life and work of Thomas Hardy; modern and contemporary women's writing; literature and the visual arts; mid to late Victorian literature.
Completed PhDs
- Sue Kennedy, 'Sleeping Beauty'? Elizabeth Taylor and her Peers (2017)
- Ellie Cope, Mapping the Mind: Men, Madness and Masculinity in Victorian Fiction (2015)
- Sarah Berry, Cults, Sororities and Fraternities in Fin de Siècle Literature (2012)
- Claire Drewery, Women Modernists and the Short Story (2007)
- Julie Ellam, Love in the Novels of Jeannette Winterson (2003)
- Amanda Greenwood, Representations of Femininity in the Novels of Edna O'Brien 1960-1996 (1999)
Current PhD supervisions
- Jackie Goodman, Architectural Symbolism in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Andrew Hewitt, Thomas Hardy and the Emotions
- Rebecca Devine, Philip Larkin: Epistolary Performances
- Helen Alexander, Thomas Hardy and Music
- Rachel Allen, Financial Environments and Ecological Incentives in Poetry: A Creative-Critical Investigation