Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History
I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:
Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): ‘Retro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power balance in the context of post-2003 Iraq’
Ann Kiatkowski (as lead supervisor), ‘Les Filles du Roi: Gender and Migration in French North America’
Sam Antony Kocheri Clement (as lead supervisor): ‘Benevolent Proselytes or Disguised Imperialists? Cultural Imperialism and Missionary Activities in India 1813–1900’
Sonia Lamrani (as lead supervisor): ‘Self-Orientalism in the Post-colonial novel’
Mouna Lekkal (as lead supervisor): ‘Representation of the Algerian War of Independence in the British Media: the BBC, the FLN and decolonisation’
Sarah Mechkarini (as lead supervisor): ‘Alienation and Identity in Anglophone and Francophone African Novels: Mouloud Mammeri’s Le Sommeil du juste, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o’s The River Between, Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions’
Geoffrey Reis (as co-supervisor): ‘Desert voices: literary representations of the Sahara since the colonial period and beyond’
Degasian Rutherford (as lead supervisor): ‘Quasi-Ornamentalism in the Urban Landscape of Colonial Hong Kong: Appropriation, Imperial construction and Resistance, 1840 – Present.
Sarah Pymm (as co-supervisor): ‘L'aventure humaine: Spirituality, myth and power in the travel writings of Louise Weiss’
Sourour Salhi (as lead supervisor): ‘Towards a global appraisal of the African past: A Postcolonial Comparative Study of Franco-Algerian and Anglo-Nigerian Literatures from Subalternity to ‘Stable Hybridity’
Amina Zarzi (as lead supervisor): ‘The Representation of the Algerian Sahara desert in the French Colonial Imagination and its Resonance in the Expressions of Identity of Postcolonial Algerian Literature’
Completed theses:
Claire Peters, ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to the cultural memory of the Occupation and the Algerian War: Representations of the City in Modiano, Haneke and Maspero’ (September 2013
Sophie Tanniou, ‘Postcolonial Francophone Literature from West and Equatorial Africa: Colonial Heritage and Postcolonial Histories’ (July 2015).
Research activity per year