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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities , Justiss Wilder Burry

What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC , Jessica L. Griffith

Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida , Karla Ariel Maddox

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings , Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi

An Exercise in Exceptions: Personhood, Divergency, and Ableism in the STAR TREK Franchise , Jessica A. Blackman

Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women’s Writing , Stephanie A. Harper

Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres , Adam Phillips

PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace , Jade S. Weiss

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design , Sahar M. Alyahya

A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication , Carolyn M. Gubala

Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables , Kara Kristina Larson

Land Goddesses, Divine Pigs, and Royal Tricksters: Subversive Mythologies and Imperialist Land Ownership Dispossession in Twentieth Century Irish and American Literature , Elizabeth Ricketts

Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 , Melissa "Maggie" Romigh

Generic Expectations in First Year Writing: Teaching Metadiscoursal Reflection and Revision Strategies for Increased Generic Uptake of Academic Writing , Kaelah Rose Scheff

Reframing the Gothic: Race, Gender, & Disability in Multiethnic Literature , Ashely B. Tisdale

Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres , Adrienne D. Vivian

Mental Illness Diagnosis and the Construction of Stigma , Katie Lynn Walkup

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi , Spencer Todd Bennington

9/11 Then and Now: How the Performance of Memorial Rhetoric by Presidents Changes to Construct Heroes , Kristen M. Grafton

Kinesthetically Speaking: Human and Animal Communication in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century , Dana Jolene Laitinen

Exploring Refugee Students’ Second Language (L2) Motivational Selves through Digital Visual Representations , Nhu Le

Glamour in Contemporary American Cinema , Shauna A. Maragh

Instrumentalization Theory: An Analytical Heuristic for a Heightened Social Awareness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Media , Andrew R. Miller

Intercessory Power: A Literary Analysis of Ethics and Care in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child , Kelly Mills

The Power of Non-Compliant Logos: A New Materialist Approach to Comic Studies , Stephanie N. Phillips

Female Identity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesian Novels , Zita Rarastesa

"The Fiery Furnaces of Hell": Rhetorical Dynamism in Youngstown, OH , Joshua M. Rea

“We developed solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, and Space-Time in Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction , Kimber L. Wiggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Remembrance of a Wound: Ethical Mourning in the Works of Ana Menéndez, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and Junot Díaz , José Aparicio

Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions , Peter Cannon

New GTA’s and the Pre-Semester Orientation: The Need for Informed Refinement , Jessica L. Griffith

Reading Rape and Answering with Empathy: A New Approach to Sexual Assault Education for College Students , Brianna Jerman

The Karoo , The Veld , and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head , Elana D. Karshmer

"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat"; Representations of the Slaughterhouse in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature , Stephanie Lance

Language of Carnival: How Language and the Carnivalesque Challenge Hegemony , Yulia O. Nekrashevich

Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature , Elan J. Pavlinich

Because My Garmin Told Me To: A New Materialist Study of Agency and Wearable Technology , Michael Repici

No One Wants to Read What You Write: A Contextualized Analysis of Service Course Assignments , Tanya P. Zarlengo

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida , Haili A. Alcorn

The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature , Timothy M. Curran

Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature , Alisa M. DeBorde

Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy , Taylor B. Johnson

Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization , Scott Neumeister

The Spectacle of The Bomb: Rhetorical Analysis of Risk of The Nevada Test Site in Technical Communication, Popular Press, and Pop Culture , Tiffany Wilgar

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals , Cassie Patricia Childs

“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , J. Kevin Jordan

Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature , Sucheta Kanjilal

Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice , Natalie Kass

Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage , Curtis Le Van

Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys , Elizabeth A. Loyer

Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study , Johanna Phelps-Hillen

The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature , Tangela La'Chelle Serls

Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover , Nicole Elizabeth Stodard

(Age)ncy in Composition Studies , Alaina Tackitt

Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities , Katie Lynn Walkup

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Rupturing the World of Elite Athletics: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Suspension of the 2011 IAAF Regulations on Hyperandrogenism , Ella Browning

Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy , Lauren E. Cagle

Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric , Samantha Jo Cosgrove

Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy , Zachary Parke Dixon

The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman : From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic , Jarad Heath Fennell

Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments , Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis

Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , Marisa Carmen Iglesias

Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe , Jessica Trant Labossiere

Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida , Karen Patricia Langbehn

A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles , Jonathan Paul Ray

Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels , Mary Allison Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective , Christine Anne Auger

Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing , Anthony Joseph Casagrande

Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry , Paul T. Corrigan

#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication , Laura Anne Ewing

Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange , Sarah Beth Hopton

'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home , Rondrea Danielle Mathis

Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing , Megan M. Mcintyre

Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art , James Anthony Ricci

Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry , Katherine Jesse Royce

Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing , Jacqueline Marie Smith

Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen , Shannon Tivnan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature , Elizabeth Stuart Angello

Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera , Ryan Alan Blank

Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema , Adam Breckenridge

Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson , Jessica Lauren Cook

Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare , Angela Eward-Mangione

Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure , Julie Marie Gerdes

Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity , Brenda M. Grau

Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression , Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes

Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program , George Douglas Mcarthur

Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley , Katherine Marie McGee

Ghosts, Orphans, and Outlaws: History, Family, and the Law in Toni Morrison's Fiction , Jessica Mckee

The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature , Deborah Susan Mcleod

Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity , Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor

Hermes, Technical Communicator of the Gods: The Theory, Design, and Creation of a Persuasive Game for Technical Communication , Eric Walsh

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts , Ronisha Witlee Browdy

Disciplinarity, Crisis, and Opportunity in Technical Communication , Jason Robert Carabelli

The Terror of Possibility: A Re-evaluation and Reconception of the Sublime Aesthetic , Kurt Fawver

Unbearable Weight, Unbearable Witness: The (Im)possibility of Witnessing Eating Disorders in Cyberspace , Kristen Nicole Gay

the post- 9/11 aesthetic: repositioning the zombie film in the horror genre , Alan Edward Green, Jr.

An(other) Rhetoric: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Rhetorical Tradition , Kathleen Sandell Hardesty

Mapping Dissertation Genre Ecology , Kate Lisbeth Pantelides

Dead Man's Switch: Disaster Rhetorics in a Posthuman Age , Daniel Patrick Richards

"Of That Transfigured World" : Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature , Benjamin Jude Wright

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Theses/dissertations from 2018 2018.

Implementing Critical Analysis in the Classroom to Negate Southern Stereotypes in Multi-Media , Julie Broyhill

Fan Fiction in the English Language Arts Classroom , Kristen Finucan

Transferring the Mantle: The Voice of the Poet Prophet in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson , Heidi Brown Hyde

The Effects of Social Media as Low-Stakes Writing Tasks , Roxanne Loving

Student and Teacher Perceptions of Multiliterate Assignments Utilizing 21st Century Skills , Jessica Kennedy Miller

The Storytellers’ Trauma: A Place to Call Home in Caribbean Literature , Ilari Pass

Post Title IX Representations of Professional Female Athletes , Emily Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

“Not as She is” but as She is Expected to Be: Representations, Limitations, and Implications of the “Woman” and Womanhood in Selected Victorian Literature and Contemporary Chick Lit. , Amanda Ellen Bridgers

The Intrinsic Factors that Influence Successful College Writing , Kenneth Dean Carlstrom

"Where nature was most plain and pure": The Sacred Locus Amoenus and its Profane Threat in Andrew Marvell's Pastoral Poetry , James Brent King

Colorblind: How Cable News and the “Cult of Objectivity” Normalized Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign , Amanda Leeann Shoaf

Gaming The Comic Book: Turning The Page on How Comics and Videogames Intersect as Interactive, Digital Experiences , Joseph Austin Thurmond

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Nature, Function, and Value of Emojis as Contemporary Tools of Digital Interpersonal Communication , Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll

Exile and Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution to Jewish-American Literature , Sarah Anne Hamner

A Woman's Voice and Identity: Narrative Métissage as a Solution to Voicelessness in American Literature , Kali Lauren Oldacre

Pop, Hip Hop, and Empire, Study of a New Pedagogical Approach in a Developmental Reading and English Class , Karen Denise Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Abandoning the Shadows and Seizing the Stage: A Perspective on a Feminine Discourse of Resistance Theatre as Informed by the Work of Susanna Centlivre, Eliza Haywood, Frances Sheridan, Hannah Cowley, and the Sistren Theatre Collective , Brianna A. Bleymaier

Mexican Immigrants as "Other": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of U.S. Immigration Legislation and Political Cartoons , Olivia Teague Morgan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

"I Am a Living Enigma - And You Want To Know the Right Reading of Me": Gender Anxiety in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel and The Guilty River , Hannah Allford

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Gender Performance and the Reclamation of Masculinity in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , John William Salyers Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

"That's a Lotta Faith We're Putting in a Word": Language, Religion, and Heteroglossia as Oppression and Resistance in Comtemporary British Dystopian Fiction , Haley Cassandra Gambrell

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Mirroring the Madness: Caribbean Female Development in the Works of Elizabeth Nunez , Lauren Delli Santi

"Atlas Shrugged" and third-wave feminism: An unlikely alliance , Paul McMahan

"Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on": The use of cross-dressing in order to achieve female agency in Shakespeare's transvestite comedies , Heather Lynn Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Between the Way to the Cross and Emmaus: Deconstructing Identity in the 325 CE Council of Nicaea and "The Shack" , Trevar Simmons

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Dissertations from 2023 2023

In Search of Middle Paths: Buddhism, Fiction, and the Secular in Twentieth-Century South Asia , Crystal Baines, English

Save Our Children: Discourses of Queer Futurity in the United States and South Africa, 1977-2010 , Jude Hayward-Jansen, English

Epistemologies of the Unknowable in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature , Maria Ishikawa, English

Revenge of the Nerds: Tech Masculinity and Digital Hegemony , Benjamin M. Latini, English

The Diasporic Mindset and Narrative Intersections of British Identity in Transnational Fiction , Joseph A. Mason, English

A 19TH CENTURY ETHNOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT UN/CAGED: NARRATIVES OF INFORMAL EMPIRE, AFROLATINIDAD, AND CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC (RE)FRAMINGS , Celine G. Nader, English

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Writing the Aftermath: Uncanny Spaces of the Postcolonial , Sohini Banerjee, English

Science Fiction’s Enactment of the Encouragement, Process, and End Result of Revolutionary Transformation , Katharine Blanchard, English

LITERARY NEGATION AND MATERIALISM IN CHAUCER , Michelle Brooks, English

TRANSNATIONAL POLITICAL AND LITERARY ENCOUNTERS: THE IDEA OF AMERÍKA IN ICELANDIC FICTION, 1920–1990 , Jodie Childers, English

When Choices Aren't Choices: Academic Literacy Normativities in the Age of Neoliberalism , Robin K. Garabedian, English

Redefining Gender Violence: Radical Feminist Visions in Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction and Women of Color Activism 1990-2010 , Hazel Gedikli, English

Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean , Subhalakshmi Gooptu, English

The Critical Workshop: Writing Revision and Critical Pedagogy in the Middle School Classroom , Andrea R. Griswold, English

Racial Poetics: Early Modern Race and the Form of Comedy , Yunah Kae, English

At the Limits of Empathy: Political Conflict and its Aftermath in Postcolonial Fiction , Saumya Lal, English

The Burdens and Blessings of Responsibility: Duty and Community in Nineteenth- Century America , Leslie Leonard, English

No There There: New Jersey in Multiethnic Writing and Popular Culture Since 1990 , Shannon Mooney, English

Ownership and Writer Agency in Web 2.0 , Thomas Pickering, English

Combating Narratives: Soldiering in Twentieth-Century African American and Latinx Literature , Stacy Reardon, English

“IT DON’T ‘MEAN’ A THING”: TIME AND THE READER IN JAZZ FICTIONAL NARRATIVE , Damien C. Weaver, English

SATURNINE ECOLOGIES: ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD, 1542-1688 , John Yargo, English

Dissertations from 2021 2021

"On Neptunes Watry Realmes": Maritime Law and English Renaissance Literature , Hayley Cotter, English

Theater of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage of Jacobean London , Liz Fox, English

“The Badge of All Our Tribe”: Contradictions of Jewish Representation on the English Renaissance Stage , Becky S. Friedman, English

On Being Dispersed: The Poetics of Dehiscence from "We the People" to Abolition , Sean A. Gordon, English

Echoing + Resistant Imagining: Filipino Student Writing Under American Colonial Rule , Florianne Jimenez, English

When Your Words Are Someone Else's Money: Rhetorical Circulation, Affect, and Late Capitalism , Kelin E. Loe, English

Indigenous Impositions in Contemporary Culture: Knotting Ontologies, Beading Aesthetics, and Braiding Temporalities , Darren Lone Fight, English

NEGRITUDE FEMINISMS: FRANCOPHONE BLACK WOMEN WRITERS AND ACTIVISTS IN FRANCE, MARTINIQUE, AND SENEGAL FROM THE 1920S TO THE 1980S , Korka Sall, English

Negotiating Space: Spatial Violation on the Early Modern Stage, 1587-1638 , Gregory W. Sargent, English

Stranger Compass of the Stage: Difference and Desire in Early Modern City Comedy , Catherine Tisdale, English

Dissertations from 2020 2020

AFFECTIVE HISTORIES OF SOUTHERN TRAUMA: SHAME, HEALING, AND VULNERABILITY IN US SOUTHERN WOMEN’S WRITING, 1975–2006 , Faune Albert, English

Materially Queer: Identity and Agency in Academic Writing , Joshua Barsczewski, English

ANGELS WHO STEPPED OUTSIDE THEIR HOUSES: “AMERICAN TRUE WOMANHOOD” AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY (TRANS)NATIONALISMS , Gayathri M. Hewagama, English

WRITING AGAINST HISTORY: FEMINIST BAROQUE NARRATIVES IN INTERWAR ATLANTIC MODERNISM , Annaliese Hoehling, English

Passing Literacies: Soviet Immigrant Elders and Intergenerational Language Practice , Jenny Krichevsky, English

Lisa Ben and Queer Rhetorical Reeducation in Post-war Los Angeles , Katelyn S. Litterer, English

Daring Depictions: An Analysis of Risks and Their Mediation in Representations of Black Suffering , Russell Nurick, English

From Page to Program: A Study of Stakeholders in Multimodal First-Year Composition Curriculum and Program Design , Rebecca Petitti, English

Forms of the Future: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Visioning Work of Aesthetics in U.S. Poetry, 1822-1863 , Magdalena Zapędowska, English

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Black Men Who Betray Their Race: 20TH Century Literary Representations of the Black Male Race Traitor , Gregory Coleman, English

“The Worlding Game”: Queer Ecological Perspectives in Modern Fiction , Sarah D'Stair, English

Afrasian Imaginaries: Global Capitalism and Labor Migration in Indian Ocean Fictions, 1990 – 2015 , Neelofer Qadir, English

Divided Tongues: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Modern Anglophone Indian Fiction , Shakuntala Ray, English

Globalizing Nature on the Shakespearean Stage , William Steffen, English

Gilded Chains: Global Economies and Gendered Arts in US Fiction, 1865-1930 , Heather Wayne, English

“ÆTHELTHRYTH”: SHAPING A RELIGIOUS WOMAN IN TENTH-CENTURY WINCHESTER , Victoria Kent Worth, English

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Sex and Difference in the Jewish American Family: Incest Narratives in 1990s Literary and Pop Culture , Eli W. Bromberg, English

Rhetorical Investments: Writing, Technology, and the Emerging Logics of the Public Sphere , Dan Ehrenfeld, English

Kiskeyanas Valientes en Este Espacio: Dominican Women Writers and the Spaces of Contemporary American Literature , Isabel R. Espinal, English

“TO WEIGH THE WORLD ANEW”: POETICS, RHETORIC, AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE, FROM SIDNEY’S ARCADIA TO SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER , David Katz, English

CIVIC DOMESTICITY: RHETORIC, WOMEN, AND SPACE AT HULL HOUSE, 1889-1910 , Liane Malinowski, English

Charting the Terrain of Latina/o/x Theater in Chicago , Priscilla M. Page, English

The Politics of Feeling and the Work of Belonging in US Immigrant Fiction 1990 - 2015 , Lauren Silber, English

Turning Inside Out: Reading and Writing Godly Identity in Seventeenth-Century Narratives of Spiritual Experience , Meghan Conine Swavely, English

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Tragicomic Transpositions: The Influence of Spanish Prose Romance on the Development of Early Modern English Tragicomedy , Josefina Hardman, English

“The Blackness of Blackness”: Meta-Black Identity in 20th/21st Century African American Culture , Casey Hayman, English

Waiting for Now: Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time , Amanda Ruth Waugh Lagji, English

Latina Identities, Critical Literacies, and Academic Achievement in Community College , Morgan Lynn, English

Demanding Spaces: 1970s U.S. Women's Novels as Sites of Struggle , Kate Marantz, English

Novel Buildings: Architectural and Narrative Form in Victorian Fiction , Ashley R. Nadeau, English

CATCH FEELINGS: CLASS AFFECT AND PERFORMATIVITY IN TEACHING ASSOCIATES' NARRATIVES , Anna Rita Napoleone, English

Dialogue and "Dialect": Character Speech in American Fiction , Carly Overfelt, English

Materializing Transfer: Writing Dispositions in a Culture of Standardized Testing , Lisha Daniels Storey, English

Theatres of War: Performing Queer Nationalism in Modernist Narratives , Elise Swinford, English

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Multimodal Assessment in Action: What We Really Value in New Media Texts , Kathleen M. Baldwin, English

Addictive Reading: Nineteenth-Century Drug Literature's Possible Worlds , Adam Colman, English

"The Book Can't Teach You That": A Case Study of Place, Writing, and Tutors' Constructions of Writing Center Work , Christopher Joseph DiBiase, English

Protest Lyrics at Work: Labor Resistance Poetry of Depression-Era Autoworkers , Rebecca S. Griffin, English

From What Remains: The Politics of Aesthetic Mourning and the Poetics of Loss in Contemporary African American Culture , Kajsa K. Henry, English

Minor Subjects in America: Everyday Childhoods of the Long Nineteenth Century , Gina M. Ocasion, English

Enduring Affective Rhetorics: Transnational Feminist Action in Digital Spaces , Jessica Ouellette, English

The School Desk and the Writing Body , Marni M. Presnall, English

Sustainable Public Intellectualism: The Rhetorics of Student Scientist-Activists , Jesse Priest, English

Prosthetizing the Soul: Reading, Seeing, and Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Devotion , Katey E. Roden, English

Dissertations from 2015 2015

“As Child in Time”: Childhood, Temporality, and 19th Century U.S. Literary Imaginings of Democracy , Marissa Carrere, English

A National Style: A Critical Historiography of the Irish Short Story , Andrew Fox, English

Homosexuality is a Poem: How Gay Poets Remodeled the Lyric, Community and the Ideology of Sex to Theorize a Gay Poetic , Christopher M. Hennessy, English

Affecting Manhood: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and the Fop Figure in Early Modern English Drama , Jessica Landis, English

Who Do You Think You Are?: Recovering the Self in the Working Class Escape Narrative , Christine M. Maksimowicz, English

Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, and the Biophysical World , Christian J. Pulver, English

Audible Voice in Context , Airlie S. Rose, English

The Role of Online Reading and Writing in the Literacy Practices of First-Year Writing Students , Casey Burton Soto, English

Dissertations from 2014 2014

RESURRECTION: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BLACK CHURCH IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE , Rachel J. Daniel, English

Seeing Blindness: The Visual and the Great War in Literary Modernism , Rachael Dworsky, English

HERE, THERE, AND IN BETWEEN: TRAVEL AS METAPHOR IN MIXED RACE NARRATIVES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE , Colin Enriquez, English

Interactive Audience and the Internet , John R. Gallagher, English

Down from the Mountain and into the Mill: Literacy Sponsorship and Southern Appalachian Women in the New South , Emma M. Howes, English

Transnational Gestures: Rethinking Trauma in U.S. War Fiction , Ruth A.H. Lahti, English

"A More Natural Mother": Concepts of Maternity and Queenship in Early Modern England , Anne-Marie Kathleen Strohman, English

Dissertations from 2013 2013

Letters to a Dictionary: Competing Views of Language in the Reception of Webster's Third New International Dictionary , Anne Pence Bello, English

Staging the Depression: The Federal Theatre Project's Dramas of Poverty, 1935-1939 , Amy Brady, English

Our Story Has Not Been Told in any Moment: Radical Black Feminist Theatre From The Old Left to Black Power , Julie M Burrell, English

Writing for Social Action: Affect, Activism, and the Composition Classroom , Sarah Finn, English

Surviving Domestic Tensions: Existential Uncertainty in New World African Diasporic Women's Literature , Denia M Fraser, English

From Feathers to Fur: Theatrical Representations of Skin in the Medieval English Cycle Plays , Valerie Anne Gramling, English

The Reflexive Scaffold: Metatheatricality, Genre, and Cultural Performance in English Renaissance Drama , Nathaniel C. Leonard, English

The World Inscribed: Literary Form, Travel, and the Book in England, 1580-1660 , Philip S Palmer, English

Shakespearean Signifiers , Marie H Roche, English

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The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Lifting the Postmodern Veil: Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Decolonization in Global Fictions of the 21st Century , Matthew Burchanoski

Gothic Transformations and Remediations in Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Wendy Fall

Milton’s Learning: Complementarity and Difference in Paradise Lost , Peter Spaulding

“The Development of the Conceptive Plot Through Early 19th-Century English Novels” , Jannea R. Thomason

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Gonzo Eternal , John Francis Brick

Intertextuality and Sociopolitical Engagement in Contemporary Anglophone Women’s Writing , Jackielee Derks

Innovation, Genre, and Authenticity in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel , David Aiden Kenney II

Reluctant Sons: The Irish Matrilineal Tradition of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Flann O’Brien , Jessie Wirkus Haynes

Britain's Extraterrestrial Empire: Colonial Ambition, Anxiety, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Literature , Mark Edward Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse , Hailey Whetten

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

When the Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, and Spatial Identities in the Twentieth Century , Danielle Kristene Clapham

Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Problem Novels , Hunter Nicole Duncan

Genre and Loss: The Impossibility of Restoration in 20th Century Detective Fiction , Kathryn Hendrickson

A Productive Failure: Existentialism in Fin de Siècle England , Maxwell Patchet

Inquiry and Provocation: The Use of Ambiguity in Sixteenth-Century English Political Satire , Jason James Zirbel

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

No Home but the World: Forced Migration and Transnational Identity , Justice Hagan

The City As a Trap: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and the American Myth of Mobility , Andrew Joseph Hoffmann

The Fantastic and the First World War , Brian Kenna

Insane in the Brain, Blood, and Lungs: Gender-Specific Manifestations of Hysteria, Chlorosis, & Consumption in 19th-Century Literature , Anna P. Scanlon

Reading Multicultural Novels Melancholically: Racial Grief and Grievance in the Joy Luck Club, Beloved, and Anil's Ghost , Jennifer Arias Sweeney

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Ethos of Dissent: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Democratic Function of American Protest and Countercultural Literature , Jeffrey Lorino Jr

Literary Cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy , Sunil Samuel Macwan

The View from Here: Toward a Sissy Critique , Tyler Monson

The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity and Anglophone Women War Writers of the Great War , Sareene Proodian

Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots , Adrianne A. Wojcik

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris , Bryan Gast

Gendering Scientific Discourse from 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet , Bridget E. Kapler

Discarding Dreams and Legends: The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty , Katy L. Leedy

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Saving the Grotesque: The Grotesque System of Liberation in British Modernism (1922-1932) , Matthew Henningsen

The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics in the American Renaissance , Michael William Keller

A Single Man of Good Fortune: Postmodern Identities and Consumerism in the New Novel of Manners , Bonnie McLean

Julian of Norwich: Voicing the Vernacular , Therese Elaine Novotny

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Homecomings: Victorian British Women Travel Writers And Revisions Of Domesticity , Emily Paige Blaser

From Pastorals to Paterson: Ecology in the Poetry and Poetics of William Carlos WIlliams , Daniel Edmund Burke

Argument in Poetry: (Re)Defining the Middle English Debate in Academic, Popular, and Physical Contexts , Kathleen R. Burt

Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England , Steven A. Hackbarth

The Creation of Heaven in the Middle Ages , William Storm

(re)making The Gentleman: Genteel Masculinities And The Country Estate In The Novels Of Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, And Elizabeth Gaskell , Shaunna Kay Wilkinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, and Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives of Teenage Girls in the 1940s , Carly Anger

Placed People: Rootedness in G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry , David Harden

Rhetorics Of Girlhood Trauma In Writing By Holly Goddard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, And Jamaica Kincaid , Stephanie Marie Stella

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

A Victorian Christmas in Hell: Yuletide Ghosts and Necessary Pleasures in the Age of Capital , Brandon Chitwood

"Be-Holde the First Acte of this Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis and Cross-Pollination in Jacobean Drama and the Early Modern Prose Novella , Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith

Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, and Revisions that Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela , Jarrod Hurlbert

Violence and Masculinity in American Fiction, 1950-1975 , Magdalen McKinley

Gender Politics in the Novels of Eliza Haywood , Susan Muse

Destabilizing Tradition: Gender, Sexuality, and Postnational Identity in Four Novels by Irish Women, 1960-2000 , Sarah Nestor

Truth Telling: Testimony and Evidence in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell , Rebecca Parker Fedewa

Spirit of the Psyche: Carl Jung's and Victor White's Influence on Flannery O'Connor's Fiction , Paul Wakeman

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Performing the Audience: Constructing Playgoing in Early Modern Drama , Eric Dunnum

Paule Marshall's Critique of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through the Trope of Travel , Michelle Miesen Felix

Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis and the Renaissance Epic , Denna Iammarino-Falhamer

Encompassing the Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, and Inscription in the Fiction of John McGahern , John Keegan Malloy

Regional Consciousness in American Literature, 1860-1930 , Kelsey Louise Squire

The Ethics of Ekphrasis: The Turn to Responsible Rhetoric in Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetry , Joshua Scott Steffey

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Cognitive Architectures: Structures of Passion in Joanna Baillie's Dramas , Daniel James Bergen

On Trial: Restorative Justice in the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley Family Fictions , Colleen M. Fenno

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

What's the point to eschatology : multiple religions and terminality in James Joyce's Finnegans wake , Martin R. Brick

Economizing Characters: Harriet Martineau and the Problems of Poverty in Victorian Literature, Culture and Law , Mary Colleen Willenbring

Submissions from 2008 2008

"An improbable fiction": The marriage of history and romance in Shakespeare's Henriad , Marcia Eppich-Harris

Bearing the Mark of the Social: Notes Towards a Cosmopolitan Bildungsroman , Megan M. Muthupandiyan

The Gothic Novel and the Invention of the Middle-Class Reader: Northanger Abbey As Case Study , Tenille Nowak

Not Just a Novel of Epic Proportions: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man As Modern American Epic , Dana Edwards Prodoehl

Recovering the Radicals: Women Writers, Reform, and Nationalist Modes of Revolutionary Discourse , Mark J. Zunac

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , Amy M. Amendt-Raduege

The Games Men Play: Madness and Masculinity in Post-World War II American Fiction, 1946-1964 , Thomas P. Durkin

Denise Levertov: Through An Ecofeminist Lens , Katherine A. Hanson

The Wit of Wrestling: Devotional-Aesthetic Tradition in Christina Rossetti's Poetry , Maria M.E. Keaton

Genderless Bodies: Stigma and the Myth of Womanhood , Ellen M. Letizia

Envy and Jealousy in the Novels of the Brontës: A Synoptic Discernment , Margaret Ann McCann

Technologies of the Late Medieval Self: Ineffability, Distance, and Subjectivity in the Book of Margery Kempe , Crystal L. Mueller

"Finding-- a Map-- to That Place Called Home": The Journey from Silence to Recovery in Patrick McCabe's Carn and Breakfast on Pluto , Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier

Emily Dickinson's Ecocentric Pastoralism , Moon-ju Shin

The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature , Jacob Hadley Stratman

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Literary Art in Times of Crisis: The Proto-Totalitarian Anxiety of Melville, James, and Twain , Matthew J. Darling

(Re) Writing Genre: Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison , Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

"Amsolookly Kersse": Clothing in Finnegan's Wake , Catherine Simpson Kalish

"Do Your Will": Shakespeare's Use of the Rhetoric of Seduction in Four Plays , Jason James Nado

Woman in Emblem: Locating Authority in the Work and Identity of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) , Susan L. Stafinbil

When the Bough Breaks: Poetry on Abortion , Wendy A. Weaver

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Heroic Destruction: Shame and Guilt Cultures in Medieval Heroic Poetry , Karl E. Boehler

Poe and Early (Un)American Drama , Amy C. Branam

Grammars of Assent: Constructing Poetic Authority in An Age of Science , William Myles Carroll III

This Place is Not a Place: The Constructed Scene in the Works of Sir Walter Scott , Colin J. Marlaire

Cognitive Narratology: A Practical Approach to the Reader-Writer Relationship , Debra Ann Ripley

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

Defoe and the Pirates: Function of Genre Conventions in Raiding Narratives , William J. Dezoma

Creative Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novel , Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty

Exclusionary Politics: Mourning and Modernism in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew , Donna Decker Schuster

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Toward a Re-Formed Confession: Johann Gerhard's Sacred Meditations and "Repining Restlessnesse" in the Poetry of George Herbert , Erik P. Ankerberg

Idiographic Spaces: Representation, Ideology and Realism in the Postmodern British Novel , Gordon B. McConnell

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Reading into It: Wallace Stegner's Novelistic Sense of Time and Place , Colin C. Irvine

Brisbane and Beyond: Revising Social Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America , Michael C. Mattek

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Christians and Mimics in W. B. Yeats' Collected Poems , Patrick Mulrooney

Renaissance Roles and the Process of Social Change , John Wieland

'Straunge Disguize': Allegory and Its Discontents in Spenser's Faerie Queene , Galina Ivanovna Yermolenko

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Reading American Women's Autobiography: Spheres of Identity, Spheres of Influence , Amy C. Getty

"Making Strange": The Art and Science of Selfhood in the Works of John Banville , Heather Maureen Moran

Writing Guadalupe: Mediacion and (mis)translation in borderland text(o)s , Jenny T Olin-Shanahan

Writing Guadalupe: Mediacion and (Mis)Translation in Borderland Text(o)s , Jenny T. Olin-Shanahan

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Setting the Word Against the Word: The Search for Self-Understanding in Richard II , Richard J. Erable

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Ph.D., M.Litt., M.Sc., and Divinity M.Phil. theses approved after 1970 are catalogued in iDiscover, as are M.D. and M.Chir. theses approved after May 2006. Earlier theses are listed in a card catalogue in the Manuscripts Reading Room and are gradually being added to iDiscover.

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Doubi, Melpomenie Guissouegou (2024). The Role of Pin1 in innate immunity. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Sambou, Basil (2024). The contribution of neutrophils to lung pathology in tuberculosis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Latarani, Maryam (2023). EZH2 as a therapeutic target for aggressive prostate cancer. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Poputa, Mircea Cristian (2023). Mechanical Properties of INCONEL 740H at 725°C. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Darboe, Saffiatou (2022). Molecular And Phenotypic Characterisation Of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella enterica Associated With Human Disease In The Gambia. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Morrison, Jo (2022). Anti-Doping Policy: The Emperor's New Clothes. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Lewis, Matthew Richard Francis (2021). Development of the X-ray Camera System for NASA's OGRE Sounding Rocket. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pansieri, Claudia (2021). The Development and Running of an Italian Birth Cohort for an In-Depth Evaluation of Child Health Status and Health Care Utilization in the First Years of Life. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Robinson, Ian Wright (2021). Student and Staff Perceptions and Experiences of Employability at an English School Sixth-Form. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Triolo, Gianluca (2020). Proteomic Analysis of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Valero Gracia, Alberto (2019). Photoreception in Ambulacraria: A Comprehensive Approach. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Weiner, Charles Frederick (2019). Strong Gravitational Lens Modelling. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Medina Barcenas, Eduardo Enrique (2018). Tree Species Effects on Soil C Dynamics in Temperate Forests. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Mieczkowski, Piotr W. (2018). Modelling Cell Orientation In Artificial Tissues. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Okoi, Catherine Bi Young (2018). Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in The Gambia: Prevalent Species, Carriage and Disease. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Ball, Simon David (2016). Optimising the Loading Diversity of Rail Passenger Crowding using On-Board Occupancy Data. MPhil thesis The Open University and Transport Research Laboratory.

Bilton, Lawrence Edward (2016). Tracing Star Formation Around Quasars With Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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McCune, Calum Scott (2016). Recalibrating the SOPHIE Spectroscopic Archive to Identify Mass-Losing Exoplanets. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Yang, Guangyu (2016). A Study of Cross-Cultural Decision-Making Styles: Is Cognitive Mapping an Effective Methodology for Data Analysis? MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Ansbro, Eamonn (2015). An outer solar system high ecliptic latitude survey. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Darboe, Fatoumatta (2015). Delayed BCG Vaccination: Effect on the Infant Immune Response, Unrelated Pathogens and Other EPI Vaccines. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Noho-Konteh, Fatou (2015). Sex Differences in Vaccine-Specific and Heterologous Immunity Following Administration of Measles and /or DtwP Vaccines to Nine Month-Old Gambian Infants. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Cameron, Fiona (2014). Ontogenetic Niche Shifts Within Floodplain Meadow Species. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Dawson, Jon (2014). Atmospheric Super-Rotation on Venus With a Simplified Global Circulation Model. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Heinecke, Dominic (2014). Identification of Genes Which Affect Chromosomal Instability (CIN) in a Dosage-Sensitive Manner in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . MPhil thesis The Open University.

Johnson, Barry (2014). The Management of Corporate Social Responsibility in the UK Rail Sector. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Shirley, Jason (2014). The implications of using small scale techniques for secondary school chemistry practicals. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Smolovic Jones, Sanela (2014). Feminist Solidarity Building And Working With Difference: The Case Of The Fiji Women’s Forum. MPhil thesis University of Auckland.

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Goodfellow, Mark Damian Dominic (2013). Studies of the Links Between Quasar Black Hole Accretion and Star Formation in Their Host Galaxies: Data Analysis of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Kennard, Harry Robert (2013). Dynamics in Turbulence. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Mackay, Gordon (2013). Kolab: Improvising Nomadic Tangible User Interfaces in the Workplace for Co-Located Collaboration. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sims, Jason (2013). Stability of a Translocated Chromosome in Chronological Ageing Yeast. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wright, Heather Anne (2013). Long-Term Variability of Plankton Phenology in a Coastal Mediterranean Time Series (LTER-MC). MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Elbanhawy, Eiman (2011). Visual Quality Integerated Cost Model For Developing Green Neighborhoods: An Optimization Approach. MPhil thesis The American University in Cairo (AUC).

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Manglani, Sapna Lakhi (2010). The Role of RecX in Mycobacteria. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Sanderson-Mann, Joanna (2010). The Everyday Activities of Motherhood. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Fang, Muzhen (2009). An Evaluation in China and the UK of a Virtual Laboratory in Materials Science. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Wassermann, Barton (2009). Observer Design for Interconnected Systems and Implementation via Differential-Algebraic Equations. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Iniesto, Francisco (2008). Accesibilidad y estandarización en el ciclo de creación de materiales educativos. MPhil thesis Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

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Sludds, Kevin (2008). Cognitive and Heideggarian Approaches to the Study of Emotions/Moods. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Beaumont, Helen (2007). Modelling Rates of Cognitive Decline in Patients with a Dementing Illness. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Gurukumba, Tawanda (2007). Tactics From Proofs. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Ivanova, Neli (2007). Predicting Function and Structure using Bioinformatics Protocols:Study of the Intracellular Regions of the Jagged and Delta Protein Families. MPhil thesis The Open University.

O'Hara, Laura (2007). Molecular Markers for the Murine Uterus. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Chowdhury, Nazim (2006). Assessment Of Bacterial Contamination Of Retrieved Musculoskeletal Allograft Tissue. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Dubin, Manu Jody (2006). Identification of Genome Targets of the DET1 Complex in Higher Plants. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hall, Mark (2006). A Semantic Similarity Measure for Formal Ontologies. MPhil thesis Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt.

Moya-Mendez, Natalia Calderon (2006). Haageocereus : Taxonomy for the Conservation of the Genus in Peru. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Robertson, James W. (2006). The Concept of Educational Music Therapy: Between Intuition and Implementation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Teichmann, Hannah (2006). The Early Role of the Transcription Factor COUP-TFI in Cortical Development. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Domanov, Oleg (2005). Community In Postmodern Philosophy With An Emphasis On The Work Of Jean-Luc Nancy. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Kaffashian, Farrokh (2005). Socioeconomic Effects On Breast Cancer Survival : The Role Of Stage And Morphology. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lucassen, Mathijs (2005). Training in child and adolescent mental health for nursing, occupational therapy and social work students: does it influence career intentions? MPhil thesis The University of Auckland.

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Tembo, Albert (2005). Attitudes Towards The Inclusion Of Pupils With Disabilities In Zambian Primary Schools, And Their Implications. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Aderson, Samantha J. N. (2004). Magma Convective Recharge In Volcanic Systems. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Alexander-Passe, Neil (2004). How Children with Dyslexia Experience School: Developing an Instrument to Measure Coping, Self-Esteem and Depression. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Allen-Early, Stephanie (2004). Brazilian, Feminist Non-Governmental Organisations - a Force for Change: Constructing Citizenship through Health Sector Reform and Delivery of Reproductive Rights. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Churchman, James (2004). Cosmological Redshift and Gravitational Potential in a Spatially Flat Universe. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Durham, John (2004). The Petrogenesis Of The Penmaenmawr Intrusion, North Wales. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Owen, Gareth Wyn (2004). Accounting Goodwill And The Main Constituent Drivers Of Corporate Value : A Review And Empirical Study. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Clode, Fiona Elizabeth (2003). Genotypic And Phenotypic Characterisation Of Isolates Of Burkholderia cepacia From Cystic Fibrosis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Evens, Hilary (2003). Adult mathematics students: reflections on their learning. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Gifford, Elizabeth Patricia (2003). Secondary Headship in the Context of School Autonomy. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jehlickova, Bohumira (2003). The future of biomass as a renewable energy resource in the Czech Republic: the case of waste wood. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Kearney, Gordon Christopher (2003). Tandem Mass Spectrometry Of Polyketide Natural Products. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Renc-Roe, Joanna (2003). Discourses on women in the Polish parliamentary debates : dominance and resistance in critical and feminist linguistic perspective. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Töke, Lilla (2003). "Paradoxes to live with" : a feminist approach to Eastern European women's films. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Vassilieva, Elena (2003). Feminism and Eternal Feminine: The Case of a Happy Union. MPhil thesis The Open University.

2002 To Top

Alimehmeti, Evis (2002). The Concept of Effective Remedies in the Albanian Legal System, Particularly as Regards Meeting its Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, (art. 13). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Atkins, Elisabeth Anice (2002). Self And Relative Reported Executive Dysfunction In Multiple Sclerosis: Prevalence And Relationship With Mood And Health Status. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Haffegee, Julian (2002). Collagen self-assembly, induced alignment and quantitative image analysis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hope-Hume, Robert Alan (2002). Computer mediated communication of discourse: learning together online. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Metykova, Monika (2002). Language Choice In A Bilingual Environment: Media And Family Influences On Southern Slovakian Children. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Nahapetyan, Argine (2002). Legal, Political And Social Environments Of The Non-Governmental Sector Of Armenia. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Parad-Rajmankina, Yelena (2002). Convergence Of Proliferative And Survival Signals On The pRB/E2F Pathway In Haematopoietic Cells. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pascolo, Elena (2002). Assembling The Future: The Role Of Transactive Planning Theory In Generating Alternative Urban Strategies. MPhil thesis The Open University.

2001 To Top

Gheaus, Anca (2001). Bridging Gaps: Care, Rights And Virtue. MPhil thesis The Open University.

King, Mervyn Daniel Thomas (2001). A new platyspermic permineralised seed from the middle Jurassic of Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Marshall, Dennis Vernon (2001). The Work Of Joseph Estlin Carpenter In The Field Of Comparative Religion. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Millward, Adrian (2001). The Design and Development of a Recirculating Water Channel: A Critical Assessment. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Popescu-Sandu, Oana (2001). Bodily Textures : Generic Inscriptions And Ideological Markings In Russian And Romanian Fantastic Literature. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Rodrigues Diniz, Célia Maria (2001). Financial Administration and Accounting as Institutional Development in an African University - Learning from Research Organisation at Eduardo Mondlane University, in Mozambique. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Russell, Michael Anthony (2001). Investigating Heavy-Ion Internuclear Potentials Using Inversion And Other Methods. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Shrestha, Prithvi (2001). Huckleberry Finn as an African American Figure in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tribuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal, MA thesis. (Unpublished)

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Soin, Simal (2001). The role of human papillomavirus and other risk factors in malignant and premalignant skin complications following heart, heart-lung and lung transplantation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Vasanthakumar, Michael Solomon (2001). The Legacy of the Controversies: The Continuing Impact on Interfaith Encounters in Sri Lanka of Nineteenth-Century controversies between Buddhists and Christians. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Webb, Simon Francis (2001). A Data Based Perspective on the Environmental Risk Assessment of Human Pharmaceuticals. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Blackburn, Wendy Elizabeth (2000). The effects of nutrient supply on the pattern of food intake in sheep. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Brinklow, Anthony (2000). An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Analysis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Desai-Abram, Sonal (2000). Identification of multiple IGF-1 mRNA transcripts and the effect of growth factors on the production of IGF-1, type II collagen, Decorin and Biglycan in articular chondrocytes. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Djoric, Gorana (2000). Gender Content Of Social Policy Changes In East Central Europe Since 1989. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Eynon, Gavin Thomas (2000). Llanelly Parish, Breconshire : The Impact Of The Iron Industry On A Rural Welsh Parish, 1790-1890. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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González Díaz, Susana (2000). New urbanisms now : the crisis and potentials of architecture and urban practice from Rem Koolhaas to New Urbanism. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Goraya, Naseem Akhter (2000). Automation of Glycohaemoglobin Measurement and its Application to Renal Patients. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Groom, Susan Anne (2000). Sources for the investigation of meaning in the Hebrew Bible. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Kalocsai, Csilla (2000). Conflicts among lesbian representations in Hungary. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Kearney, Dominic (2000). The Analysis of Genetically Engineered Polyketide Metabolites. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Mammo, Alemu (2000). Cross-sectional Maasai Primigravidae Dietary Habit and Pregnancy Outcome Study, Loitokitok, Kenya. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Maniar, Sangita P (2000). Studies on semiochemicals for insect pest control. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Mitsuyama-Wdowiak, Kiyoko (2000). The critical reception of contemporary Japanese art exhibitions held in the West (1945-1995). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Riddington Young, John (2000). Medical Ideas In English Poetry To The End Of The Seventeenth Century. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sadler, Andrew (2000). The Role Of Perceived Stress And Personality In Symptom Experience Of Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Trinder, Michael John (2000). The Development and Effectiveness of GNVQs: Using Engineering as a Case Study. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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1999 To Top

Ambrose, Emma Louise (1999). The Degradation Of Soil Applied Nematicides Used For The Control Of The Potato Cyst Nematodes Globodera rostochiensis And G. pallida . MPhil thesis The Open University.

Beedham, Richard John (1999). The role of cell-mediated immunity in protection against Bacillus anthracis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Buckingham, Patricia Ann (1999). An Investigation into the Factors Influencing Infant Mortality in Cholsey Sub-District, Berkshire, 1892-1900. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Drever, Fiona (1999). A study of cataract extraction in people aged 75 and over in relation to near visual acuity, function, mental impairment and social adversity. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Duggal, Vivek (1999). Resistance to Powdery Mildew in Wheat Mutants. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lafferton, Emese (1999). Ilma: Meanings of Hysteria and the Beginnings of Hungarian Psychiatry. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Mathias, Kathryn Anne (1999). The Use Of Consumer Knowledge, Beliefs And Attitudes In The Development Of A Local Authority Strategy For Domestic Food Hygiene Education. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Moore, Jonathan (1999). Plasma Impedance: "The end of the line?". MPhil thesis The Open University.

Oushakine, Serguei (1999). The Post-Soviet Imaginary: Constructing New Russian Fantasies. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Shao, Zhuang (1999). The Application of Object-Oriented Views to an Engineering Environment. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Van Roessel, Peter J. (1999). A Cell-Specific Analysis Of Gene Expression In The Neural Crest Of Zebrafish. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Zhu, Min-Yan (1999). Functional Studies of Gelsolin in Drosophila Development. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1998 To Top

Dassanayake, Nalin (1998). Course Evaluation at a Distance Teaching University. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Elvin, Stephen John (1998). Monoclonal Antibodies Against Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 And Their Use In Diagnosis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Evans, Evan David (1998). An Assessment of the Political and Legal Career of Robert Price. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hodgson, Michael John Christopher (1998). The Problem Of Human Subjectivity In Hegel's Thought, With Particular Regard To The Relationship Between Hegel's Early Theological Writings And His Mature Philosophy Of Religion. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hubbard, Nicholas P. (1998). Child-Meaningful Learning In Two Nursery Settings. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jani, Harsha (1998). Role of Thy-1 Glycoprotein in Neurite Outgrowth. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Ollerton, Mike (1998). Constructions Of Equality In A Mathematics Classroom. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pearson, Frank (1998). An Ecological Study of Colliery Waste and an Evaluation of the Role of Earthworms in its Reclamation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Procter, Ruth J. (1998). The decline of infant mortality, 1871-1911: a medical conundrum ; the case of Nuneaton (Warwickshire) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Richardson, Clare Louise (1998). The Efficiency Of Nitrogen Utilisation In Growing Chicks. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Rozario, Mary Rita (1998). The Role of Caste in Prostitution: Culture and Violence in the Life Histories of Prostitutes in India. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sadler, Dawn Angela (1998). The effects of day length and ambient temperature on the growth and structure of adipose tissue and other organs in the dwarf hamster P. campbelli . MPhil thesis The Open University.

Terzieva, Rossitsa (1998). And I the eye of the storm : reading the past/constructing the present in Toni Morrison's novels Beloved and Jazz . MPhil thesis The Open University.

West, Janet Anne (1998). Compliance Rates in Overweight Subjects Following Low Sucrose and Sucrose Containing Diets. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Zhuravskaya, Gustava (1998). Love as an Ideology: The Reflections on "Sexual Crisis" in Aleksandra Kollontai's Writing. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1997 To Top

Batley, Sarah Jane (1997). Expression and generation of monoclonal antibodies to plasminogen-related growth factors. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Crawford, Alexander Dettmar (1997). Analysis of Differential Gene Expression by Boolean Selection: Identification of Transcripts Associated with the Formation and Reorganization of Neuronal Networks. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Curwen, Jon Owen (1997). Assessment of Vascular Reactivity Changes in Insulin Resistance and their Role in Blood Pressure Elevation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Morgan, James Geoffrey Selwyn (1997). An Analytical, Critical And Comparative Study Of Anglican Mission In The Dioceses Of Nakuru And Mount Kenya East, Kenya, From 1975. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Nunes da Ponte, Maria Margarida (1997). A Formative Evaluation Of Augmentative And Alternative Communication Approaches To Promote Literacy In Young Children With Severe Speech And Physical Impairments. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Slack, Anthony John (1997). Flat Panel Displays in an Automotive Environment. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sudbury, Nany Wahyuni (1997). Farmers Attitudes Towards Information Sources And Their Subsequent Crop Protection Behaviour. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1996 To Top

Blair, Helen Jane (1996). Genetic Analysis of the X Chromosomes of Man and Mouse. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Boxall, Guy J. (1996). New Card Technologies in Retail Banking: Competition and Collaboration in the 1990s. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Harding, Albert William (1996). War and Social Change: A study of a Scottish Burgh, 1910-1922. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Honey, Martin Douglas (1996). An Evaluation Of The Survival Of Mature Students On Degree Courses In Hospitality Management In The UK. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lawrence, Catharine (1996). Imagery and Estimation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lund, Roy Ridout (1996). The Development and Delivery of Appropriate Curricula for Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Riches, Caroline (1996). Uptake and Utilisation of Amino Acids by Human Hair Follicles and Related Cells. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Robinson, Allan Vincent (1996). Modelling The Tides Of The Southern Weddell Sea. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Short, Christopher John (1996). Religiosity In Rural England : The Examination Of Towler's Conventional Religious Types. MPhil thesis The Open University.

van Swinderen, Anne Marie (1996). Gender Issues and Social Change: Evaluating Programme Impact in Rural Bangladesh. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wolfe, Brian Sinclair (1996). The Development of the UK Domestic Electrical Appliance Industry over the period 1963 to 1990. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1995 To Top

Brown, Peter (1995). The Bauschinger Effect In High Strength Steels. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Burling, Keith Anthony (1995). The Development and Evaluation of a Time-Resolved Fluoroimmunoassay for Lipoprotein (a) in Human Serum. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Dovey, Lynda Ann (1995). Measurement of LDL Receptor Activity in HepG2 Cells Grown on Microcarrier Beads. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Gallimore, Christopher Ian (1995). Detection and Characterisation of Picobirnaviruses in Human and Rabbit Faeces. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Innes, Sara Lynn (1995). Facilitation Of Phonological Awareness In Three And Four Year Old Children. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Kemeny, Hilary (1995). "Will she be happy here?" : a study of the processes of girls' choice of and transition to secondary school. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lawson, Frank (1995). Railwaymen in the North East of England 1890-1930: Industrial and Political Attitudes and Policies. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Makki, Suhair Mohammed (1995). The Analysis of the Phonological Systems of Arabic Speaking Children with Cleft Palate in Saudi Arabia. MPhil thesis The Open University.

McArthur, Christopher Ian (1995). Farmers Actions and Attitudes with Respect to Agricultural Pollution. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Nowell, David Alexander Giles (1995). Gravity Studies of Two Silicic Volcanic Complexes. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Spedding, Vanessa (1995). An Object-Oriented System for Engineering Polymer Information. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wermelinger, Michel Alexandre (1995). Teoria Básica das Estruturas Conceptuais. MPhil thesis Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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1994 To Top

Esguerra, Camila Vicencio (1994). The Specification of Dorsal and Lateral Pattern in the Drosophila Embryo. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jenkins, Margaret Elizabeth (1994). An Examination of the Concept of Need and its Operational Uses in Applied Social Research. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Rickhuss, Michael (1994). Computer algebra systems and secondary education. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Stark, Hilary Margaret (1994). An Enquiry into the Relations Between the Management and the Workforce of Truman, Hanbury and Buxton in the Inter-War Period. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wenham, Peter D. (1994). A Study of the Impact of the DES Pamphlet "Curriculum Organisation and Classroom Practice in Primary Schools: A Discussion Paper". MPhil thesis The Open University.

Whiteley, Shirley (1994). Predictors of Milk Production in Lactating Women. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1993 To Top

Dooley, Brian (1993). Robert F. Kennedy: The Senate Years. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Dove, Henry Mervyn (1993). The role of the police and other law enforcement agencies in their application of the law relating to popular disturbances in Central Scotland, 1850-1914. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Gravett, John (1993). A Model of Natural Language Dialogue. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hutchinson, Margaret Anne (1993). Pit Closures in Northumberland: A Study of Bates Colliery. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Millum, Trevor (1993). Tramps and their Excuses: A Study of the Writing of Travellers in Borneo in the 19th and 20th Centuries. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Porter, R (1993). "That you may know..." : an exegetical and historical analysis of the arguments used by the author of 1 John to reassure his readers of the authenticity of their Christian faith and experience. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wain, Denise Elizabeth (1993). Textiles in the Lower School: A Study of Teaching Methods and Assessment Procedures. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Wallis, William George Kendall (1993). Accountability, Its use as a strategy in the management of school teaching staff. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Walters, Bryan (1993). The Forest of Dean Iron Industry 1st to 4th centuries A.D. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Watson, Walter (1993). An assessment of the progress of tidal power within the UK. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Willis, Jennifer (1993). The Open University Advanced Diploma in Educational Management (DO2): A Study of the Effectiveness of the Course in Preparing Senior Managers in Schools for their Role in the 1990s. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Woodnutt, David John (1993). The Synthesis of bis-(2-Chloroethyl)-Methane Phosphonates. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1992 To Top

Gamlin, John Freeston (1992). Investigation of current energy usage on UK farms and of the potential for meeting farm energy needs from renewable resources. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Theakston, Colin (1992). Woodrow Wilson and the American labour movement. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1991 To Top

Barley, Jacqueline (1991). Restriction Fragment Polymorphisms in Candidate Genes Associated with Hypertension. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Bridgeman, Pamela Anne (1991). Dionysus, Pan and Hermes: Greek Myth and Metaphysics in the Work of D.H. Lawrence. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Clarke, Fiona M. (1991). An Analysis of Carrying Behaviour in the Common Marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus ). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Courtenay, Adrian Hugh (1991). Parliamentary representation and general elections in Cheltenham Spa between 1832 and 1848: A Study of a Pocket Borough. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Hunt, Peter Richard (1991). Medial Dorsal Thalamic Lesions and Working Memory in the Rat. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jennings, Frances (1991). Database systems: different interfaces for different users. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Melville, Charles Edwin Brian (1991). Metascientific aspects of topoi of spaces. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sage, Rosemary J. W. (1991). A Question Of Language Disorder: Studies Of Assessment, Management And Parent Attitude. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Watson, Philip (1991). Quantum mechanics in phase space. MPhil thesis The Open University.

White, Ann (1991). The effect of some stressors on the metabolism of the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1990 To Top

Bright, Olga (1990). Putting Acute Care on the Health Care Agenda: A Study of Discharged Hospital Patients into the Community. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Bryson, Christine Anne (1990). Riot and its control in Liverpool, 1815-1860. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Davies, K (1990). The management of delegated systems of school finance with special reference to the operation of the Cheshire Cost Centre scheme. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Edwardson, John (1990). Ringworm - occurrence, control and prevention in young cattle. MPhil thesis The Open University.

King, G (1990). Vector Signal Processors in Data Compression and Image Processing. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Ley, Anthony James (1990). Building control: its development and application 1840-1936. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Meacham, John David (1990). Reserved Seats: A Study of the Decline of a Convention in the Church of England. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Robinson, Peter Forbes (1990). Workers' Councils In Portugal 1974-1975. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sherrington, John Brian (1990). The Scandal of Particularity: A Historical Survey of the Christian Theology of Religion. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Stapley, Robert Charles (1990). A case study of the National Union of Teachers as a pressure group: the Oxfordshire dispute. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Thomas, John Wyn (1990). Dadansoddiad o elfennau penodol Cynllun Peilot A.D.A.G., Awdurdod Addysg Dyfed 1986/1987. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Watkins, John (1990). ObLog: the combination of object-oriented and logic programming. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1989 To Top

Emerson, Tony (1989). Some issues on the relationship between a co-operative support organisation and its client co-operatives. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jennings, Brian Keith (1989). A critical appraisal of typologies of religious orientation in the theology and ethics of Ernst Troeltsch and H. Richard Niebuhr. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jones, Gladys May (1989). The Geochemistry of Granitoid Intrusions in Llyn, North Wales. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Lennon, Francis P (1989). The class novel in first and second year mixed ability classes. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lewis, Olive (1989). The teaching of science in English dissenting academies 1662-1800. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Matthews, Peter (1989). The Education, Training and Supply of Teachers in England and Wales, 1963-73: an analysis of policy formation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Newsome, Graham (1989). Ethylene oxide-propylene oxide copolymers in yeast fermentations. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Randle, Jane de Grey (1989). Landsat studies of the central Andes. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Tattersall, Neil (1989). Ideology, education and social change in Latin America: a case study of Bolivia 1930-1953. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Whitbread, Martin John (1989). A study of aspects of synchronisation and communication in certain parallel computer architectures. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wingate, William Jonathan G (1989). Tilings and Amalgamations. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1988 To Top

Christodoulou, Joan Patricia (1988). The Universalists: radical sectarianism (1760-1850). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Dickinson, Susan Caroline (1988). Mental practice and motor learning. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Smith, Colin Adrian (1988). Molecules in diffuse interstellar clouds. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Towner, Michael Antony (1988). A personal construct theory approach to the vocational counselling of young people in the context of the careers service. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1987 To Top

Brenton, A.R. (1987). Dual exchange rate systems. MPhil thesis The Open University.

D'Sena, Peter A. M. (1987). Perquisites And Pilfering In The London Docks, 1700-1795. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Dale, The Rev. D.W. (1987). A history of the understanding of the miraculous in the Judaeo-Christian tradition with particular reference to the understanding of the miraculous in the principal fathers of the East and West and to the words used to refer to the miraculous. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Grantham, Brian Edwin (1987). Nutrient regeneration in the deep water of sea lochs. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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O'Donnell, Catherine T (1987). Investigation of the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope distribution in oil shales using stepped combustion analysis. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Rae, A.B. (1987). Visitors by railway to the Great Exhibition of 1851. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Reynolds, Glynis (1987). A demographic and socio-economic study of March 1550-1750. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Slatter, Philip Edward (1987). Building expert systems: cognitive emulation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Smith, John Ernest (1987). Transport and suburban development in Battersea, Wandsworth, & Putney - 1830 to 1914. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Weale, Colin Alexander (1987). Parochial patronage and the cure of souls in the diocese of Lincoln, 1209-1299. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Willcocks, Alan Leslie (1987). Characteristics of iodinated beta-adrenoceptor antagonist ligands in brain. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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1986 To Top

Ames, Janet Christine (1986). Hard bargains: a study of inter-agency collaboration in the provision of day care. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Anderson, John Cooper (1986). A history of wear and wear prevention 1700-1940. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Barnes, Derek Charles (1986). The effects of teacher's written comments on pupil performance and attitudes. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Bielinski, Andrew (1986). The population dynamics of the crested newt (Triturus Cristatus Cristatus (Laurenti)). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Blythe, Colin Richard (1986). Oesophageal cancer: with special reference to deaths in Scotland in 1970-1974. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Gibson, Paul Jude (1986). Remote sensing techniques applied to the pan-African terrain of north-east Africa. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Hermann, Reinhold (1986). Stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion fatigue in aluminium alloy 7017 with and without residual stresses. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Jeffery, George (1986). The meaning of the help received from social workers in social services departments by people with physical disabilities: the consumer's view. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lindsay-Clift, Laura A. (1986). An investigation of factors influencing adolescent health behaviour. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pleasants, Ann Mary (1986). A comparison of the finite element and boundary element methods for solving partial differential equations associated with engineering problems. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Smith, R. P. (1986). Software Portability. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Stevens, David John (1986). Thomas Traherne's "Centuries of meditations": the Quality of Liberation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wiles, Patricia Margaret (1986). The Role of the Teacher in a General Hospital. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1985 To Top

Blackburn, Jennifer C (1985). The Voluntary Reading Habits Of 10 - 12 Year Olds: A Survey Analysed With Reference To Scores On Cattell's Children's Personality Questionnaire. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Cosslett, John Kenneth (1985). An Examination Of The Feasibility Of Converting Atmospheric Or Solar Energy To Stored Energy In The Form Of Electrolytically Generated Hydrogen Using Low Or Intermediate Technology. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Craik, James B. (1985). Attitudes To School Of Poor Attenders. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Emmans, Keith Allen (1985). An Analysis Of The Use Of French And German In Employment And Leisure By Holders Of ’A’ Level Passes In These Two Languages. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Ford, Michael George (1985). The Relation Between The Obsessional Character And Aspects Of Cognitive Performance. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Graham-Leigh, John David (1985). The Transformation Of London's Water Supply, 1805-1821. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jones, Peter Hope (1985). Determination Of Age, Sex And Origin Of Guillemots ( Uria aalge ) And Razorbills ( Alca torda ) Killed In Oilspills And Other Incidents. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Keith, Ronald L. G. (1985). The Effect on Unemployment of Selected Changes in Working Time Patterns. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pusey, Karen (1985). Jewish Proselyte Initiation and its Possible Influence on early Christian Initiation, with Special Reference to Baptism. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Ringrose, Arthur A. (1985). The Development of Community Education and Staff Development within L.E.A. Organisational Units. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Scoones, Martin Arthur (1985). The Development of the U.K. National Regime for Oil and Gas, 1934-1981. MPhil thesis The Open University.

West, Linden Reginald (1985). "Adults participating in learning". MPhil thesis The Open University.

Wilson, Stephen Roger (1985). The County Bench and Crime in Sussex 1775-1820. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1984 To Top

Barnes, Sarah B. (1984). Language Variation In Young Children. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Carroll, Robert (1984). A Study Of The Self Concepts Of Primary Aged Children. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Clark, Philip (1984). Conceptions Of Deprivation: An Empirical Study. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Cobb, Jennifer Mary (1984). The Cult of Vesta in the Roman World. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Davies, Arthur Royston (1984). The Role Of The Ancillary Worker In The Hospital Service. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Holden, L.T. (1984). A History Of Vauxhall Motors To 1950: Industry, Development And Local Impact On The Luton Economy. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Khan, Shuaib Ahmad (1984). Some Studies In The Disintegration Of Laminar Liquid Jets In Immiscible Binary Liquid Systems. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Murgatroyd, Stephen John (1984). The Validity of the Telic Dominance Scale. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Owens, Marguerite Wendy (1984). The Effects Of Limpet Grazing On Algal Colonisation Around The Coast Of Holy Island (Anglesey). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pritchard, Keith (1984). Student Perceptions Of A Sixth Form College: A Case Study Of Yale College, Wrexham. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1983 To Top

King, Joseph Stephen (1983). An Analysis of the Contribution of Professor C.H. Dodd to Johannine Scholarship in the English-speaking World. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lawson, Simon (1983). The Potential for the Culture of Fresh Water Fish in the United Kingdom Based on Principles of Organic Recycling and Integration with other Agricultural Systems. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Leblond, Christine B (1983). Sexual Differences In Synaptogenesis In The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Of The Rat Brain. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lincoln, John (1983). The Vibrating String In Keyboard Instruments. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Mayor, Jennifer Louise (1983). Friendship, Justice And Eudaimonia In The Nicomachean Ethics. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Vowles, Michael Harry (1983). Aspects Of The English Working Class Viewed From The Working Men's Club. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1982 To Top

Campbell, Robin (1982). Hearing Children Read: An Exploration and Pedagogical Analysis of a Teacher-Child Interaction in Infant Schools. MPhil thesis The Open University.

George, Anthony Frank (1982). Cyclical Variations in the Return Migration of Scottish Salmon by Sea-age c.1790 to 1976. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hodge, Maureen Brenda (1982). An Investigation into the Methanolysis of Triphenylsilane Using Perchlorate Catalyst Precursors. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Martinez, Jose Raphael (1982). Metastability in Statistical Mechanics. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Medlicott, Ian Raoul (1982). The Landed Interest and the Development of the South Yorkshire Coalfield 1750 to 1830. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Pigott, R (1982). Production of Monoclonal Antibodies to Cells Isolated from the Developing Rodent Cerebellum and Grown in Culture. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Sherratt, Norma Margaret (1982). Occupational Choice for Girls: A Sociological Study of the Constraints on the Routes Taken by a Small Group of Girls in a College of Further Education. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Turner, Glenn Robert (1982). Goals, Identities and Decision-Making: A Model of Pupil Activity in a Comprehensive School. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Williams, James H (1982). Ideology And Identity: A Comprehensive School Science Department In Transition. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1981 To Top

Anderson, Judith (1981). The Acid Hydrolysis Of Paper To Fermentable Sugars And The Subsequent Fermentation Of The Sugars To Ethanol. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Binmore, Keith (1981). The Development of Further Education in Newport 1841-1958. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Blake-Coleman, Barrie Charles (1981). The Rise Of Copper Wire, Its Manufacture And Use To 1900: A Case Of Industrial Circumspection. MPhil thesis The Open University.

• Download Published Version ( PDF / 71MB)

Brown, Douglas C. J. (1981). The Development Of Small Craft-Based Businesses In Scotland. MPhil thesis The Open University.

• Download Published Version ( PDF / 42MB)

Cassidy, James Michael (1981). Eucharistic Liturgies Of The Church of England 1945-1980. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Forde, Clifford S. (1981). An Examination Of The Uses To Which Time As A Formal Principle Is Employed In Selected Works Of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, And Virginia Woolf. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Gray, M. Elizabeth (1981). A Study Of The Thematic Content Preference Of Young Children In Northern Ireland Learning To Read. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Morgan, David Reginald (1981). The Behavioural And Physical Development Of The Athymic Nude Mouse. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Mount, Hazel Florence (1981). The Development Of Children's Ability To Recognize Facial Emotion. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1980 To Top

Bentley, Gerald Ian (1980). The Affective Development Of Biology Students In Further Education. The Construction And Evaluation Of A Test Related To O- and A-level Courses In Biology, With Particular Reference To The Affective Domain. Use Of The Test To Obtain Diagnostic And Predictive Information. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Brewer, Robert Charles (1980). The Reorganisation of The National Health Service, 1965-74. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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Caperon, John Philip (1980). The Treatment Of Religion In Four Nineteenth-century Novelists: Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Mrs. Olipant and William Hale White. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Clarke, John Walter (1980). Student Opinion and Occupational Circumstances relating to Aspects of Vocational Education and Training in Medical Laboratory Sciences. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Comerford, F. J. (1980). Non Conforming Uses: Socio-Geographic Study. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Edwards, Neville (1980). 'Difficulty' In Text As A Function Of Syntactic Complexity: A Study Of Syntactic Complexity Within And Between Sentences. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Jackson, Arnold Terence (1980). The Prospects For Coal Gasification. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Lee, Yok-Chin (1980). Kinetic Study Of The Gas Phase Pyrolysis Of Cis-1-Chloro-2-Butene. MPhil thesis The Open University.

1979 To Top

Brown, Austin Ewing (1979). The Microbial Populations Of The Intertidal Zone Of Two Sandy Beaches. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Hunt, William Michael (1979). A History Of The Sleaford Navigation. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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1978 To Top

Ellis, Richard Edmund (1978). The Development And Application Of Equipment For The Study Of Oral-Pharyngeal Neuromuscular Behaviour. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Fletcher, B. (1978). Aspects Of Equivalence Relations In The School Curriculum And The Development Of The Concept In Young Children. MPhil thesis The Open University.

• Download Published Version ( PDF / 40MB)

Hill, David Roy (1978). Waveguide slot radiators. MPhil thesis The Open University.

• Download Published Version ( PDF / 89MB)

Hutton, Susan Mary (1978). An Interpretation Of Landsat Imagery Of Southeast Botswana And A Review Of The Practical Uses, Merits And Disadvantages Of The Imagery. MPhil thesis The Open University.

• Download Published Version ( PDF / 109MB)

Rechtman, Raul Mauricio (1978). Some Problems In Rigorous Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. MPhil thesis The Open University.

Smetherham, David (1978). Subject Identity And School Knowledge. MPhil thesis The Open University.

• Download Published Version ( PDF / 36MB)

1976 To Top

Jones, Goronwy John (1976). The United Nations And The Principle Of Non-Intervention In Matters Essentially Within The Domestic Jurisdiction Of State. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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1975 To Top

Hughes, Albert Colin (1975). The Capture of Mametz Wood: A Study of Lloyd George's "Welsh Army" at the Battle of the Somme 1916. MPhil thesis The Open University.

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English Literature MPhil, PhD

The research-led English Literature MPhil and PhD enable you to study a specialist area of literature.

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Start date(s):

• September 2024
• January 2025

Join our thriving School with an energetic, creative and well-resourced research culture. Throughout your English Literature MPhil/PhD, you'll benefit from expert supervision.

Our specialist areas of literature range in periods from the medieval to the contemporary. We normally offer supervision in the following areas:

• Medieval and Early Modern literature
• 18th-century and Romantic
• Victorian literature
• Postcolonial and Black Atlantic literature
• American literature
• children’s literature
• medical humanities
• poetry criticism
• scholarly editing and animating text
• theatre and performance

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View our  Academic experience page , which gives information about your Newcastle University study experience for the academic year 2023-24.

See our  terms and conditions and student complaints information , which gives details of circumstances that may lead to changes to programmes, modules or University services.

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Qualifications explained.

Find out about the different qualification options for this course.

An MPhil is available in all subject areas. You receive research training and undertake original research leading to the completion of a 40,000 - 50,000 word thesis.

Find out about different types of postgraduate qualifications

A PhD is a doctorate or doctoral award. It involves original research that should make a significant contribution to the knowledge of a specific subject. To complete the PhD you will produce a substantial piece of work (80,000 – 100,000 words) in the form of a supervised thesis. A PhD usually takes three years full time.

How you'll learn

Your work will focus on a single, sustained piece of writing and research. The MPhil thesis is a maximum of 50,000 words and the PhD thesis is a maximum of 100,000 words.

You'll be assigned a supervisor or a supervisory team who you will meet on a regular basis. Your supervisor will be able to give you advice on reading and research training. They'll help you use our research facilities and support you in the development of your work. Our research training programme will support you with researcher development training throughout the programme.

You'll be taught and based on our Newcastle campus. There may be opportunities to carry out work with our School's partner institutions .

Depending on your modules, you'll be assessed through a combination of:

We offer a wide range of projects for the thesis. These will be provided by our academics. You can also propose your own topic.

Our mission is to help you:

• stay healthy, positive and feeling well
• overcome any challenges you may face during your degree – academic or personal
• get the most out of your postgraduate research experience
• carry out admin and activities essential to progressing through your degree
• understand postgraduate research processes, standards and rules

We can offer you tailored wellbeing support, courses and activities.

You can also access a broad range of workshops covering:

• research and professional skills
• careers support
• health and safety
• public engagement
• academic development

Find out more about our postgraduate research student support

Your development

You'll have plenty of opportunities to network with fellow students and staff and become part of our School research community. These include:

• our Postgraduate Speaker Series
• lunchtime Postgraduate Forum seminars
• an annual postgraduate conference organised by our postgraduate students

You can also take part in a range of university and regional research groups and centres.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) researcher development programme 

Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

• perform better as a researcher
• boost your career prospects
• broaden your impact

Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

You’ll cover:

• techniques for effective research
• methods for better collaborative working
• essential professional standards and requirements

Your researcher development programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.

Find out more about the Researcher Education and Development programme

Doctoral training and partnerships

There are opportunities to undertake your PhD at Newcastle within a:

• Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)
• Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Being part of a CDT or DTP has many benefits:

• they combine research expertise and training of a number of leading universities, academic schools and academics.
• you’ll study alongside a cohort of other PhD students
• they’re often interdisciplinary
• your PhD may be funded

Find out more about doctoral training and partnerships

If there are currently opportunities available in your subject area you’ll find them when you search for funding in the fees and funding section on this course.

The following centres/partnerships below may have PhD opportunities available in your subject area in the future:

• ESRC Northern Ireland/North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership
• Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership

Your future

Our careers service.

Our award-winning Careers Service is one of the largest and best in the country, and we have strong links with employers. We provide an extensive range of opportunities to all students through our ncl+ initiative.

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All professional accreditations are reviewed regularly by their professional body

From 1 January 2021 there is an update to the way professional qualifications are recognised by countries outside of the UK

Check the government’s website for more information .

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is a lively and diverse community with over 700 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates.

We are based in the Percy Building. Our purpose-built postgraduate suite includes:

• several dedicated computer clusters
• meeting rooms
• lounge area

Our award-winning  Philip Robinson Library has an extensive audio-visual collection.

You will also be part of the rich research culture in the  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and may be able to participate in and lead events for our research groups.

We encourage the use of the archival opportunities offered by our various partner institutions, including the Seven Stories Centre for the Children's Book, the Wordsworth Trust (Dove Cottage), and the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees for 2024 entry (per year), home fees for research degree students.

For 2024-25 entry, we have aligned our standard Home research fees with those set by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) . The standard fee was confirmed in Spring 2024 by UKRI.

If your studies last longer than one year, your tuition fee may increase in line with inflation.

Depending on your residency history, if you’re a student from the EU, other EEA or a Swiss national, with settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, you’ll normally pay the ‘Home’ tuition fee rate and may be eligible for Student Finance England support.

EU students without settled or pre-settled status will normally be charged fees at the ‘International’ rate and will not be eligible for Student Finance England support.

If you are unsure of your fee status, check out the latest guidance here .

Scholarships

We support our EU and international students by providing a generous range of Vice-Chancellor's automatic and merit-based scholarships. See  our   searchable postgraduate funding page  for more information.  

What you're paying for

Tuition fees include the costs of:

• matriculation
• registration
• tuition (or supervision)
• library access
• examination
• re-examination

Find out more about:

• living costs
• tuition fees

If you are an international student or a student from the EU, EEA or Switzerland and you need a visa to study in the UK, you may have to pay a deposit.

You can check this in the How to apply section .

If you're applying for funding, always check the funding application deadline. This deadline may be earlier than the application deadline for your course.

For some funding schemes, you need to have received an offer of a place on a course before you can apply for the funding.

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Entry requirements

The entrance requirements below apply to 2024 entry.

Qualifications from outside the UK

English language requirements, admissions policy.

This policy applies to all undergraduate and postgraduate admissions at Newcastle University. It is intended to provide information about our admissions policies and procedures to applicants and potential applicants, to their advisors and family members, and to staff of the University.

Download our admissions policy (PDF: 201KB) Other policies related to admissions

Credit transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) can allow you to convert existing relevant university-level knowledge, skills and experience into credits towards a qualification. Find out more about the RPL policy which may apply to this course

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You can choose to start your application, save your details and come back to complete it later.

If you’re ready, you can select Apply Online and you’ll be taken directly to the application portal.

Alternatively you can find out more about applying on our applications and offers pages .

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• virtual open days

Find out about how you can visit Newcastle in person and virtually

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We regularly travel overseas to meet with students interested in studying at Newcastle University.

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Questions about this course?

If you have specific questions about this course you can contact:

Sherelle Coulson Programme Administrator School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7199 Email: [email protected]

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Recent submissions, queer ecofeminism: from binary feminist environmental endeavours to postgender pursuits , ‘trying to draw a map of a child’s mind’: a study of the influence of childhood experience on the literary works of j. m. barrie through a freudian lens , a literary and cultural analysis of the mistreatment of women portrayed in the works of female irish writers and critical social events in ireland 1984-2022 , constitutionally codified, the myth of the maternal in the national imaginary , revolution, rebellion and vampires: colonial hybridity in irish gothic literature and historical documents , good grief: changing attitudes to childhood grief in children's literature , sarah atkinson (1823-1893) in the irish quarterly review, duffy’s hibernian magazine, duffy’s hibernian sixpenny magazine, the month and the irish monthly: a study of nineteenth-century irish women writers and their literary and publishing networks (1857-1893) , the irish question: an investigation into irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults , ‘jaysus, keep talking like that and you’ll fit right in’- an investigation of oral irish english in contemporary irish fiction , a journey through learner language: tracking development using pos tag sequences in large-scale learner data , a corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of irish english and canadian english , céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the irish hotel management training sector , a literary theoretical exploration of silenced african women from psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives , teacher talk at three stages of english language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study , breaking through the looking-glass: (re)imagining alice through visual representation , ‘with great power comes great responsibility’: the impact of the parent-child relationship on the development of the heroic identity within comic book and graphic novel culture , 'take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by english language learners , a postcolonial and disability studies analysis of a selection of popular contemporary novels about disability , the untold story of the monster: a psychoanalytic analysis of the monster through the anamorphic lens , the genesis of the hunter figure: a study of the dialectic between the biographical and the aesthetic in the early writings of hunter s. thompson .

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• A treatise on solid geometry
• An elementary treatise on the lunar theory
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PhD theses (HPS)

We hold bound copies of all PhD theses completed by students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the University of Cambridge since at least the mid 1980s. These are available from the staff desk (you will be asked to sign a copyright declaration form). They can be read in the library, but may not be copied or borrowed.

All our PhD theses are catalogued on iDiscover : find them by searching for author name and title keywords in the same way as for a printed book. Alternatively, select the Whipple as the holding library and search for "dissertation" to get a more comprehensive list. 

In addition, the following lists give you a quick overview of the PhD theses we hold, in alphabetical and chronological order:

• HPS PhD theses (alphabetical)
• HPS PhD theses (chronological)

If the thesis you are looking for is not held here at the Whipple it's possible it was submitted to a different department or faculty in the University. Cambridge University Library holds hard copies of all PhD theses in all subjects approved by the University of Cambridge since 1921. These can be consulted in person in the Manuscripts Room .

How can I obtain a copy of a Cambridge PhD thesis?

Unfortunately we are not able to provide copies of PhD theses, either in hard copy or digital, from the Whipple. However, our colleagues in the Digital Content Unit at the University Library may be able to help; visit their website for further information about their image ordering service and to access the online request form.

Other HPS theses

The Library has a small collection of PhD and Masters-level theses and dissertations on a variety of HPS topics from other universities, acquired by donation. These are not catalogued on iDiscover, but are listed separately. Please ask staff for details.

MPhil and Part III dissertations

We have a large - but not comprehensive - collection of MPhil dissertations completed in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science since the late 1990s. These are catalogued on iDiscover , and are available for use in the Library only. Please ask at the staff desk for further details.

The following lists give you a quick overview of the MPhil and Part III dissertations we hold:

MPhil History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• Alphabetical list
• Chronological list

MPhil Health, Medicine and Society

Part iii history and philosophy of science.

• Alphabetical List
• Chronological List

Sample Part II, Part III and MPhil coursework

We also have a selection of sample work submitted for Part II, Part III and MPhil exams in recent years, which is available to consult in the Library. This includes Part II Primary Source Essays and Dissertations, Part III Research Papers, and MPhil Essays. The samples include a range of historical and philosophical approaches and are intended to provide good examples of each type of work. Please ask at the staff desk for further details.

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The two-year MPhil programme of the Department of English, located between the MA. and the PhD, provides the student with a unique experience of graduate study and research: unlike the MA. which works with large lecture classes and the PhD which mainly involves working alone on a research project under supervision, the MPhil offers the opportunity for intensive interaction with a peer group in small seminar sessions and training in closely supervised research.  Faculty members enjoy full freedom in designing courses in the MPhil and students choose their courses from a wide range of options offered in each semester. As a result, MPhil courses explore newly emerging research areas and problem fields, and enable thinking beyond traditional disciplinary borders. The MPhil programme began in the Department of English in 1979, and has evolved continuously in tune with the changing contours of the discipline. Its structure too has seen several changes. The programme runs under a special ordinance of the University, which has allowed constant modulation of the programme in response to the changing needs of the students. Spread over four semesters, the MPhil programme has the following structure:

• After admission, students are enrolled in a research methodology course. In addition to this, each student chooses one of the courses on offer in the first semester.
• In the second semester, students choose two optional courses. At the end of the this semester, they specify the area of their research specialization.
• In the third semester, in addition to continuing the coursework in an optional course, students begin work on their dissertation by writing an individually supervised essay on the area of their research interest. At the end of the this semester, interested students may apply for a direct transfer to the PhD programme without completing their MPhil. Decisions on such applications take into account the performance of the student in coursework and the quality and viability of the research proposal.
• In the fourth semester, students who do not transfer to the PhD programme write their MPhil dissertation under supervision.

Dissertation List

• Dissertation 2010
• Dissertation 2011
• Dissertation 2013
• Dissertation 2014
• Dissertation 2015

MPhil Viva Voce

MPhil Viva Voce of Nandini Verma, Ainee Basir, Tsultim Zangmo and Tushar

MPhil Viva Voce of Arpita Sen

MPhil Viva Voce of Vikram Singh Nirwan and Aditi Upmanyu

MPhil Viva Voce of Shahnawaz Ahmad Wani

MPhil Viva Voce of Smrity Jayara and Suyash Maurya

MPhil Viva Voce of Vinay Yadav and Jahnavi Gupta

Postponement of 3 Online M.Phil Vivas

MPhil Viva Voce of Mukulika Songayam and Ankita

MPhil Viva Voce for Uday’s viva

MPhil Viva voce for Notice for Haokip’s viva

MPhil Viva voce for Krishtjeet Das

Important Documents for Students

CERTIFICATE OF PRESENTATION

Notice for MPhil presentation 

Forms for Similarity Detection and Plagiarism Verification of M.Phil. Dissertation-Ph.D. Thesis

Guidelines for Similarity Detection and Plagiarism Verification of M.Phil. Dissertation-Ph.D. Thesis

M.Phil.-Ph.D. Procedure after admission for students registered after July 05, 2016_30august_updated

Certificate – MPhil Percentage

Instructions for Grade Conversion and Verification

Grade Conversion Chart

MPhil Research Methodology 2019 – Course outline

Beginner’s Handout 2018-19

Ordinance VI for MPHil & Ph.D

1.4.1 MPhil Feedback Response Avarage – 2012-16

Notifications and Forms 

M.Phil Time-Table August 2022

Allocation for August 2022 (Sem-II for admission 2021-22)

Notification regarding extension of date for submission of thesis for terminal M.PhilPh.D students

Notice for Extension for submission of MPhil dissertation_PhD thesis

Corrigendum Notice for Applcants to PhD, PhD-M.Phil, MPhil programme, 2021

Notice for Applicants to PhD, MPhil, M.Phil Programme

Research Advisory Commitee for MPhil Dissertation

Notification reg abolition of affidavits and adoption of self-d

fellowship claim form

Application-Form-for-extension-of-Non-NET-Fellowship

Award-of-Non-NET

MPhil Admissions -Notifications

Department of English, University of Delhi-M.Phil. Admission list(2021-22)

Interview Schedule for PhD & MPhil Admissions 2021-22

Notice for Interview list for PhD_MPhil Applicants

Notice — Supplementary List of Applicants to be called for interveiw for PhD-M.Phil Programme in English 2021-22

  https://forms.gle/bmNUVKTYB1kC5Jet6

Fourth MPhil Cut-off

Third Cut-off-MPhil

Second Cut-off MPhil

MPhil_Admission_list_2020-21[1]

Urgent notice – reschedule MPhil and PhD Interview

Notice – Google Link for PhD and MPhil Interviews for Thursday, 7 January, 2021

Notice – Google Link for MPhil -PhD Interviews for Wednesday, 6 January, 2021

Notice – Google Link for PhD Interviews on Tuesday, 5 January, 2021-1

NOTICE – MPHIL-PHD ADMISSION SEEKERS – INSTRUCTIONS REG LOG IN

Notice – PhD_MPhil admission seekers, 2020-2021

Eng Dept PhD MPhil Interview Notice 2020

Schedule of PhD-MPhil Admission Interviews, 4-9 January, 2021

NOTICE – MPHIL-PHD ADMISSION SEEKERS FOR ONETIME UPDATION OF INFORMATION

MPhil Admissions – Useful Links 

Syllabus for MPhil/PhD entrance Test

http://www.du.ac.in/mphil-phd.html

http://admission.du.ac.in/phd2018/index.php/site/login

http://www.du.ac.in/du/index.php?page=ph-d-admissions