Postgraduate supervision
Bethan welcomes PhD proposals from students intending to write on modern and / or contemporary literature. She specialises in Disability (Blind) Studies, the works of D H Lawrence, modernism and modernity, contemporary fiction, childhood trauma and the relationship between literary text and music.
Completed PhDs
- Sahidul Islam, Immigration in the works of Hanif Kureishi (2023)
- Hassan Al-Kalo, Journeying, Self-Displacement and Conflict with the Other in Selected Works by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Graham Greene (2017)
- Shu Zeng, Love, Power and Resistance: Representations of Chinese-Caucasian Romance in Twentieth-Century English Literature (2016)
- Mamo Alo, 'I Hear Nothing, I Say Nothing': Contructions of Impotence and Ignorance in the Work of Samuel Beckett (2015)
Current PhD supervisions
- Kath Beal, The Arc of Disability in the Work of Wilkie Collins
- Annabelle Moorman, The Representation of Carers for Disabled Children in Contemporary Fiction
- Elizabeth Wright - 'The Kings of Navarre': Shakespearean Fan Fiction