Our community of more than 250 PhD students brings together doctoral researchers from multiple disciplines in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and beyond. We've collated our student profiles into a single directory to showcase the range of topics studied.The directory illustrates the often interdisciplinary nature of study at LLC. Supervisors and students are not always from the same subject area, and in some cases, supervisors are based at other schools or universities. To make it easy to navigate, the page is organised alphabetically by name of PhD programme.Expand allCollapse allCeltic and Scottish StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Dhanya BairdIn developmentAbigail Burnyeat (University of the Highlands and Islands)Elizabeth CampbellThe Life and Work of John Morison, Iain Gobha na Hearadh, The Blacksmith of HarrisRob Dunbar (Celtic and Scottish Studies) /Anja Gunderloch (Celtic and Scottish Studies)Meg HylandThe Musical Cultures of Itinerant Gutters in the British and Irish Fishing Industries, c. 1850 - c. 1975Will Lamb (Celtic and Scottish Studies) / Lori Watson (Celtic and Scottish Studies)Ruth SalterThe Scottish Folk Revival and Marxist Cultural TheoryGary West (Celtic and Scottish Studies)ChineseNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Beth PriceColonialism undressed: Negotiating nudity and the female body in media, arts, and popular medical science in Republican China (1910s – 1949)Natascha Gentz (Chinese) / Xuelei Huang (Chinese)Diandian Li Rural-urban migrant strategies for coping with povertyDaniel Hammond (Chinese) / Jay Wiggan (Social and Political Science)Feng GUONarrating Western China during the War of Resistance (1931-1945)Xuelei Huang (Chinese)Kehan DingBuddhist Monastic Tea in Song-Yuan China: A Deconstruction of Chan-tea CultureJoachim Gentz (Chinese)Li ZhangA Digital Chinese Nation: Military-Themed Internet Novels, Cultural Populism and Cyber Nationalism in the Xi Jinping EraChristopher Rosenmeier (Chinese) / Natascha Gentz (Chinese)Menglu LiuPluralism of Cultural Persona: Ouyang Yuqian’s Drama Entrepreneurship and Border-Crossing PracticesXuelei Huang (Chinese) / Christopher Rosenmeier (Chinese)Mingxiao LiuThe Experience of Cultural Re-adaptation of Chinese Returnee PhD Students from the UKDaniel Hammond (Chinese) / Mark McLeister (Chinese)Stephanie Cheuk Wong Sanguo yanyi’s canonising process over centuriesNatascha Gentz (Chinese)Ryan ChoiOn the Writings of the Traitor Literati: Newspapers, Diaries, and Literary Periodicals in Hong Kong during Japanese Occupation, 1941-1945Christopher Rosenmeier (Chinese) / Aaron Moore (East Asian Relations)Can't find what you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in Chinese can also be found under:Film StudiesTranslation StudiesComparative LiteratureNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Anna ChiariSilent Trauma: The Case of Virginia Woolf and Marguerite DurasPaul Crosthwaite (English Literature) / Susan Bainbrigge (French)Matthis Hervieux Franco-Japanese Intermedial Encounters in Roland Barthes, Michel Butor and Dany LaferrièreFabien Arribert-Narce (French) / Marion Schmid (French)Maxime GeervlietThe Self on Trial: Shame and Confession in the Autobiographical Writing of Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove KnausgaardSimon Cooke (English Literature) / Claire Boyle (French)Xingtong ZhouIn developmentFabien Arribert-Narce (French) / Marion Schmid (French)Creative WritingNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Alex PenlandAntikythera / "Protagonist Lenses in the Songs of Achilles and Illium"Jane Alexander (English Literature)Art AllenFragments and poetic objects in the art of mourningMiriam Gamble (English Literature)Elmira ElvazovaThe Illusion of Presence in Articulation: Poetry's Reach Towards the IneffableJane McKie (English Literature)Lexie AngeloCriminal spaces: Examining postcolonial places and their effect on criminality in contemporary Canadian and Scottish detective novelsJane Alexander (English Literature) / Jane McKie (English Literature)Maria SchizaEkphrasis as Encounter, Practice, and FrameworkMiriam Gamble (English Literature) / Miriam Gamble (English Literature)East Asian StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Tsz Ho WongThe Capital and Power Elites’ Networks of the Wartime Japanese Empire Dual-Use Items Industries and its Aftermath (1944-1955) (Provisional)Aaron Moore (East Asian Relations) / Felix Boecking (History) Shihui YinAmerican Strategic Narratives of China's Belt and Road Initiative: Making Sense of the US Hegemony and its China PolicyAaron Moore (East Asian Relations) / Frauke Matthes (German)Yue YangHow Does China Respond to Foreign Criticisms During the COVID-19 PandemicYoungmi Kim (Korean)English LiteratureNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Ash JayamohanFretwork in Modernist WritingBenjamin Bateman (English Literature) / Carole Jones (English Literature)Alice Florence OrrThe Function of Parenthesis in Spatial Production in Mid-century American PoetryLee Spinks (English Literature)Alisha PalmerAbortion and Women's Writing 1900-1940Anouk Lang (English Literature)Anupama ShuklaMetaphors, Euphemisms, Stigma: Epilepsy in LiteratureKatherine Inglis (English Literature) / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Russian)Carolina Palacious GuerraLittle Revolutions: Home, Identity, and Labour in Chicanx LiteratureKeith Hughes (English Literature) / Celeste-Marie Bernier (English Literature)Charley MatthewsThe Queer Woman Reader in the Nineteenth CenturyKatherine Inglis (English Literature)Claudia SterbiniAsexual Epidemics, Detectives and Spinsters: the construction of pathological asexuality in Victorian fictionKatherine Inglis (English Literature) / Anna Vaninskaya (English Literature)Eftihia SaxoniNarrating (In) Transition: A Narratological Approach to Gender and TransformationBenjamin Bateman (English Literature)Erin Symons Alexandra Lawrie (English Literature) / Paul Crosthwaite (English Literature)Emily VauseMaking a Monster: Exploring the Relationship Between Parenting and the Nineteenth Century Literary ChildJonathan Wild (English Literature)Frances RowbottomWilliam Faulkner's Uses of MythAndrew Taylor (English Literature)Heather MilliganCreatures, Colonies, and the Collective: Unsettling Agency in Contemporary EcoGothic FictionBenjamin Bateman (English Literature) / David Farrier (English Literature) / Timothy Baker (Scottish and contemporary literature, University of Aberdeen)Isabel SchuelerRoland Leighton: (Re-)Turning to Poetry after the Trauma of WarJonathan Wild (English Literature)Isabella ShieldsThe Brutality of Fact: Ethical Representation and the Praxis of Identification in Contemporary Women's AutotheoryPaul Crosthwaite (English Literature) / Carole Jones (English Literature)June LaurensonSpace and Place in Anthony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' seriesJonathan Wild (English Literature) / Francis O'Gorman (English Literature)Kai Tjoon LimPost-queer Catalysts: Athwart Dynamisms of the In/OrganicBenjamin Bateman (English Literature)Kunyu TanEconomics and Ethics: Reconciling Self and Other in George Eliot’s WritingsPaul Crosthwaite (English Literature) / Anna Vaninskaya (English Literature)Laura Brook‘That drop of blood is my death-warrant’: John Keats and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century PatienthoodKatherine Inglis (English Literature) / Tim Milnes (English Literature)Lewis WoodPrecarious queers and queer precarity: cross-cultural literary responses to AIDS from David Wojnarowicz to CAConradBenjamin Bateman (English Literature) / Glyn Davis (Film Studies, University of St Andrews)Mariane Gallet'Art for People's Sake': A Genealogy of Poetics of Resistance to Logics and Architectures of Institutional RacismKeith Hughes (English Literature) / Alexandra Lawrie (English Literature)Matthew LearGathering the Mess: Repurposed Poetics and Anthropocene TimeDavid Farrier (English Literature) / Michelle Keown (English Literature)Nadine BarakatThe Black Woman in the American ‘Space’: Narrating Movement and Resistance from Enslavement to Climate InjusticeKeith Hughes (English Literature)Rachel ChungRe-Dressing Rape: Sexual Violence in All-Femme ShakespeareSuzanne Trill (English Literature) / Nicola McCartney (English Literature)Sara Yahya Hamed Robert Irvine (English Literature) / Timothy Milnes (English Literature)Sheelalipi SahanaGendered Spaces in Modern IndiaMichelle Keown (English Literature)Stephen M. PettAnglican Christianity and British Women Writers of the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyRobert Irvine (English Literature) / Alison Jack (Divinity)Yu-Hung TienAmerican Keats: A Re-examination of the Literary Afterlives of John Keats through the Writing of Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and F. Scott FitzgeraldAndrew Taylor (English Literature) / Lee Spinks (English Literature)European TheatreNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Emma YoumansCommunity- Based Shakespeare for the 21st Century Stage: Actors and IntermedialityJames Loxley (English Literature) / Nicola McCartney (Playwriting)Judith DrakeThe Case of Disability Theatre in Contemporary ScotlandSimon Malpas (English Literature) /Eleoma Bodammer (German)Rebecca MaharIrregular and Wild: Celtic Identity, Influence, and Interpretation in 1 Henry IVJames Loxley (English Literature) / Dermot Cavanagh (English Literature)Film StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Emma Dussouchaud-EsclamadonFor an understanding of the representational dynamics of Indigenous languages in feature fiction films, in a globalised cinematographic landscapeCharlotte Gleghorn (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) / Guy Puzey (Scandinavian Studies) / Charlotte Bosseaux (Translation Studies)Gustavo Herrera Taboada"El Perú no es Lima". Between Hispanic Neocolonialism and Ibero-American Transnationalism in Peruvian-Spanish Film Co-ProductionsCharlotte Gleghorn (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) /Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesKatarina ZabeckaIdentity and Belonging in Contemporary Film EncountersDavid Sorfa (Film Studies) / Ana Salzberg (Film Studies)Yi SongVulnerability in the Works of Contemporary Women ArtistsMarion Schmid (Intermediality; French and Francophone Studies) / Francois Giraud (Intermediality; French and Francophone Studies)Sam WarnockDeconstructing Cinema: The Films of Yoshida KijuChris Perkins (Japanese) / Helen Parker (Japanese)FrenchNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Benoît LoiretThe Dynamics of Music, Language, and Poetry in Yves Bonnefoy's Critical WorksPeter Dayan (French) / Marion Schmid (French)Madeleine BanatvalaBeyond the Margins: the Off-modern in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Violette LeducSusan Bainbrigge (French) / Claire Boyle (French)Can't find who you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in French and Francophone Studies can also be found under:Comparative LiteratureFilm StudiesIntermedialityMedieval StudiesTranslation StudiesStaff in French and Francophone Studies are also supervising PhD projects in the following subjects at the University of Edinburgh:PhilosophyDesignHistoryGermanCan't find who you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in German can also be found under:East Asian RelationsEuropean TheatreMedieval StudiesSpanish, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesTranslation StudiesIntermedialityNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Julia LarsenThe Monster, the Body, and the Medium: Reimagining the Monster for Post-Millennial AmericaMarion Schmid (French) / Inma Sánchez García (Intermediality)Lucy McMillanThe Femme Fatale in Contemporary Literature and the Moving Image: Adaptation, Intersectionality, and IntermedialityMarion Schmid (French) / Inma Sánchez García (Intermediality)Can't find who you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in Intermediality can also be found under:Comparative LiteratureEuropean TheatreIslamic and Middle Eastern StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Adam FerronNetworked Public: Islamic Twitter in Salman’s Saudi ArabiaFrédéric Volpi (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) / Ebtihal Mahadeen (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) / Walid Magdy (Informatics)Bahar FayeghiEveryday resistance of Afghan women in IranNacim Pak-Shiraz (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies /Elvire Corboz (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)Felícia CamposPalestinian futurities: rap, hip-hop and future-making of PalestineEbtihal Mahadeen (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) / Nicola Perugini (Social and Political Science) / Hana Sleiman (History, Classics and Archaeology)Julien MittreGender discourse in Tunisian legislationFrédéric Volpi (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) / Ebtihal Mahadeen (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)Mohammed Sinan SiyechSalafist Political Identity in IndiaFrédéric Volpi (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) / Elvire Corboz (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)Moh Zaimil AlivinMuslims in the Periphery: Intersectionality of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Middle Eastern Diaspora NovelsEbtihal Mahadeen (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) / Ines Aščerić-Todd (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)ItalianNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Daniele Falcioni Elisa Vivaldi Federica Pedriali (Italian)Irene RosPerforming Stragismo and Counter-spectacularisation: Italian Terrorism and Its LegaciesFederica Pedriali (Italian) / Philip Cooke (Italian, University of Strathclyde) / Deirdre Heddon (Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow)Marco RuggieriThe Young Eco's Library: Mass Culture and Interpretive Freedom in the Fascist PeriodDavide Messina (Italian) / Federica Pedriali (Italian)JapaneseNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Arden TaylorLoveliness of the Lost: Alternative Masculinities in Noh as seen through AtsumoriHelen Parker (Japanese) /Abigail MacBain (Japanese)Frank FanTo understand the development of Kaidan in Tokugawa Japan as a vehicle for the transmission of Buddhist, Confucian and National learning ideologies. Ian Astley (Japanese)Giuseppe StrippoliThe rise of a literary genre: Encounters between science fiction and the techno-scientific discourse in modern Japanese literature (late Meiji-beginning Shōwa)Aaron Moore (East Asian Relations) / Alexandra Smith (Russian)Jorinde WelsThe Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization – ‘Deadly Germs’ in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958Aaron Moore (East Asian Relations) / Jan Schmidt (KU Leuven) / Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)Olivia PutyerRepresentations of Intimacy in Japanese Contemporary Visual ArtChris Perkins (Japanese)Staff in Japanese are also supervising PhD projects in the following subjects at the University of Edinburgh: Film StudiesTranslation StudiesKorean StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Daniel LeeA Study on 518 Narrative Identity and Its Effect on Social ChangeYoungmi Kim (Korean Studies) / Holly Stephens (Korean Studies)Estibaliz SaenzA Look at Life Success and Suicide: Critical Reflections from South Korean Young AdultsYoungmi Kim (Korean) / Amy Chandler (Health in Social Science)Sarah Vickery Youngmi Kim (Korean Studies) / Holly Stephens (Korean Studies)Medieval StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Ana Inés AldazabalMagic and Witchcraft in the Burgundian Literary ImaginationFionnuala Sinclair (Medieval Literatures and Cultures) /Julian Goodare (History)Benni CampoleoniBecoming heroes: construction(s) of masculine identity in medieval French and Northern Italian epic Cameron CrossCorpora Arcana: Investigating the Supernatural-Body Paradigm in Selected Old French and Middle High German LiteratureFionnuala Sinclair (Medieval Literatures and Cultures) / Sabine Rolle (German) / Eleoma Bodammer (German)Moss PepeTransgender life in medieval French romanceFionnuala Sinclair (Medieval Literatures and Cultures) /Cordelia Beattie (History)RussianCan't find who you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in Russian Studies can also be found under:English LiteratureJapaneseScandinavian StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Alex PayneBoundaries of Distance Through Time: Climate Change as a Driver of Historic Othering in the Nordic CircumpolarAlan Macniven (Scandinavian Studies) /Andrew Dugmore (Geosciences)Joe WadeMaking Old Norse New: Nynorsk saga translations as a tool for corpus planning and Norwegian nation buildingGuy Puzey (Scandinavian Studies) / Arne Kruse (Scandinavian Studies) / Hephzibah Israel (Translation Studies)Can't find who you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in Scandinavian Studies can also be found under:Film StudiesSpanish, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)Beth BlakemoreThe changing representation of Spanish moros and moriscos in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spanish literatureJeremy Robbins (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) / Frauke Matthes (German; Comparative Literature)Elisabeth GoemansGlobal memory imperative translated: cultural memory and trauma related to dictatorial and gender-based violence in contemporary feminist Argentinian literatureIona Macintyre (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) / Fiona Mackintosh (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)Inés ArtetaGender Constructs and Intersectional Relations: A Study of Liliana Heker's Fictional CharactersFiona Mackintosh (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)Mario Saborido BeltránLinguistic Beliefs and Attitudes towards Dialectal Varieties of European Spanish: The Case of Ceceo, Seseo and DistinciónCarlos Soler Montes (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) / Iona Macintyre (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)Rolando BompadreIn developmentFiona Macintosh (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)Can't find who you're looking for? Students undertaking PhD research with one or more supervisors based in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies can also be found under:Film StudiesStaff in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies are also supervising PhD projects in the following subjects at the University of Edinburgh:History of ArtHistoryTranslation StudiesNameThesis titleSupervisor(s)David HayesEnglish and French Liturgical Translations in the Latin Rite Catholic Church - Analysing Theoretical Approaches and ReceptionHephzibah Israel (Translation Studies) / Véronique Desnain (French)Katherine HellerFan Culture and Retranslation: The 'Sailor Moon' FranchiseCharlotte Bosseaux (Translation Studies) / Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt (Japanese)Edinburgh Research ArchiveBrowse the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) by title, subject, supervisor or date to find out more about past PhD projects undertaken in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC).ERA is a digital archive of original research produced by or affiliated with academic authors based at the University of Edinburgh. The archive contains doctoral theses, masters dissertations, project reports, briefing papers and out-of-print material.Take me to the Edinburgh Research ArchiveAre you missing from our list?A PhD profile is a great opportunity to establish your professional digital footprint. Your profile page is all about you and, if you are a University of Edinburgh student, is a part of the University website that you can set up directly, and update yourself, over your time with us.Take me to the University wiki guidance on setting up and editing a profileOnce you have set up your profile, you will need to let the Marketing & Communications team know to appear on this list of current PhD students.Let us know you have published your profileAll information on the School website is published in line with the University’s Privacy Policy. 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These include videos, guides and a free online course (MOOC).Take me to the IAD’s resources on managing my digital footprint This article was published on 2024-08-13