Some Current and Recent Postgraduate Thesis Topics
MA
Sally Borrell
Animals and identities in the novels of Margaret Atwood
Grant Cattermole
Masculinity in New Zealand literature
Alana Cooke
lchemy, allegory and individuation in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve
Jonathan Cotton
Poe and the altered state
Philippa Drayton
The relationship between the cinema screen and the audience in two film versions of Shakespeare's Richard III
Maria Dyksma
Memory and the works of Michael Ondaatje
Annie Finnie
Animality and anthropomorphism in human-animal narratives: the case of Janet Frame
Lauren Frank
Gender roles and animal imagery in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Erica Godfrey
Whale narratives and the postcolonial unconscious
Lyndon Green
The priest and the beachcomber: savage identities in the nineteenth-century Pacific
Mitchell Head
Shylock's bond and the Treaty of Waitangi
Karen Healey
"Empowered erotica"? Objectification and subjectivity in the online journals of the suicide girls
Christopher Humphreys
Honour and reputation in Augustan England: a literary and cultural study
Thomas King
From Foreskin's Lament to Skin and Bone: challenging perceptions of masculinity in New Zealand, 1980-2003
Melissa Lam
Defamiliarizing American language and culture in Nabokov and Pynchon
Sam Lister
Disappointed bridges: language, identity and historiography in Joyce and Beckett
Hadassa Prattley
Animals as characters in recent zoo fiction
Paulette Rennie
Jeanette Winterson's artistic theory and practice
Ben Richardson
Russian culture in English modernist imagination
Jessica Ritchie
Representations of the murderous woman in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture
Leslie Roberts
The Antarticans
Fiona Tyson
Dehistoricised histories: the cultural significance of recent popular New Zealand historical fiction
Jared Wells
Black box and blue screen: readerly entrapment and projection in House of Leaves and Pale Fire
Louise Weston-Condon
"You headed for Hicksville?" Mapping the transformations of the geographic novel by Spiegelman and Horrocks
Hamish Win
Reading Maoriland: New Zealand's ethnic ornament
MFA
Nicholas Colville
The Sleeping Well
Andrea Eames
Ngozi
Mellina Grace
A Spark from the Ashes
Linda Hart
Accommodation
Robert McLean
Enduring Love
Guy Mulinder
Playwriting
Holly Painter
Wanderlust: A collection of poems
PhD
Sally Blundell
Speechless: elective mutism as a response to terror and trauma in contemporary fiction
Lloyd Carpenter
150 years of riches: the influence of the Central Otago gold rush on New Zealand culture, literature and society
Dave Ciccoricco
Reading network fiction
Maureen Coulter
The eroticised body and the transcendent word: Gautier, Symons and the dancer
Carol Dawber
Voices of the West Coast: an investigation into the creation, development and expression of a distinctive West Coast character in New Zealand literary fiction
Veronica Hoyt
Constructions of Englishness in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell
Melissa Kennedy
Striding both worlds: cross-cultural in the work of Witi Ihimaera
Carla Molloy
Ouida, fin de siecle aestheticism and consumer culture
Helen O'Neill
Investigation into the place of poetry in the schools for students years 9, 10, 11
Douglas Reid
Postcolonial naturalists: Pakeha and 'the land' in contemporary ecologically committed literature
Melissa Reimer
Colonial impressionist: Katherine Mansfield's relationship to painterly and literary impressionism
Reshmi Roy
'Shaptapadi': the urban Indian marriage in the novels of selected Indian women authors writing in English 1980-2000
Tanja Schwalm
Representations of animals in magic realist fiction from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
Chris Thomson
Knowledge and subjectivity in John Banville's fiction
Creon Upton
Narrative mechanics and sentiment in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon
Andrew Williamson
Contemporary British fiction and poststructuralist theory
Hamish Win
The lost animal saga
Nicholas Wright
Tendering the impossible: the work of irony in the late novels of Don DeLillo