Postgraduate Prospectus

www.essex.ac.uk/lifts | Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Owen Robinson, BA PhD Essex
(Senior Lecturer)
US literature, in particular African
American, Southern and post-war
writing; William Faulkner;
reader-response theory; Bakhtin
Deirdre Serjeantson, MA Oxford, PhD
Dublin (Lecturer)
Renaissance literature; religious
translation; early-modern Irish and
Scottish writing; bibliography
Philip Terry, BA Leeds, DPhil Sussex
(Senior Lecturer)
Creative writing; French literature;
Oulipo; contemporary fiction
Marina Warner, BA Oxford (Professor)
Creative writing; literature and myth;
cultural history
Wendy McMahon,
Wolverhampton, West
Midlands – BA English and
European Literature ’01,
PhD Literature ’08
Graduate
profile
I have always had a passion
for literature which was only
enhanced during my
undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees. I really enjoyed my time
at Essex and chose to return to complete
my PhD because of the Department’s
comparative and interdisciplinary nature.
What I enjoyed most was the
independence I had whilst completing
my research. The Department houses
a wide range of expertise and provides
a lively intellectual space within which
to engender your own research.
The University has such a strong sense
of community. Whilst at Essex I took every
opportunity that the Department offered,
whether it be training, the opportunity to
present work, or social engagements.
I would advise others to do the same as
I gained so much from this.
My best memory of my time at Essex has
to be when I presented my first research
paper at a departmental seminar, it gave
me a real sense of achievement.
Since completing my PhD I have been
appointed a lecturer in American Studies
at the University of East Anglia. My PhD
study provided me with the fundamental
training to forge and pursue my
desired academic career.
Research areas
Research supervision is available in
the following fields:
n Adaptation and re-writing
n African American literature
n Bakhtin
n Bibliography
n Caribbean history and literature
n Comparative literature
n Contemporary writing
n Creative writing in all genres
n Cultural history
n Cultural theory and psychoanalysis
n Documentary film and filmmaking
n Dramatic and performance theory
n Early-modern Irish and Scottish writing
n Ethnographic writing and film
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Fiction of William Faulkner
Film theory
French literature, especially modern
drama and theatre
History of political film
International modernism
Literary translation
Literature and myth
Modern European poetry
Oulipo
Performance and Shakespeare
Place, space, and literary studies
Playwriting
Postcolonial literature and theory
Postcolonial theatre and drama
Psychoanalytic and critical theory
Reader-response theory
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Religious translation
Renaissance literature
Russian Literature
Shakespeare and cultural poetics
Soviet cinema
The plays, novels and political writings
of Jean Genet
Theatre and drama especially of
the eighteenth century
Third or emerging cinemas
Tragedy and psychoanalysis
Travel writing
Twentieth-century English and
European literature
US literature
Women’s writing
World cinema
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