New Publications

Recent articles and books from our academics

• Introduction: Poetics as Classical Reception
  August 16, 2022
  Brljak, Vladimir and Lazarus, Micha (2021) 'Introduction: Poetics as Classical Reception.', Classical Receptions Journal, 13 (1). pp. 1-8.
• Introduction: Allegory Past and Present
  August 16, 2022
  Brljak, Vladimir (2022) 'Introduction: Allegory Past and Present.', in Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-40.
• Borges and the North
  August 12, 2022
  Brljak, Vladimir (2011) 'Borges and the North.', Studies in Medievalism, 20 . pp. 99-128.
• Borges against the Vikings: Early Writings on Old Germanic Literature and History, 1932-46
  August 12, 2022
  Brljak, Vladimir (2021) 'Borges against the Vikings: Early Writings on Old Germanic Literature and History, 1932-46.', Old English Newsletter, 47 (1).
• (Dis)respect and shame in the context of ‘medically unexplained’ illness
  August 9, 2022
  Cheston, Katharine (2022) '(Dis)respect and shame in the context of ‘medically unexplained’ illness.', Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. .
• William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?
  July 26, 2022
  Davies, Orlagh (2021) 'William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?', Notes and queries., 68 (4). pp. 418-419.

Recent PhD theses

• UnQuantum Woolf: The Many Intellectual Contexts of To the Lighthouse's Metaphorical Wave-Particle Binary
  August 10, 2022
  COUSIN, XAVIER,ROSS,ALEXANDRE (2022) UnQuantum Woolf: The Many Intellectual Contexts of To the Lighthouse's Metaphorical Wave-Particle Binary. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
• Decolonial Approaches to Reading Distress, Healing, and (Well)being in Contemporary African Diasporic Contexts
  July 4, 2022
  THAMPURAN, ARYA,SHREE (2022) Decolonial Approaches to Reading Distress, Healing, and (Well)being in Contemporary African Diasporic Contexts. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
• 'A most vexatious trade to make bread by': The Authorial Careers of Christian Isobel Johnstone and Catherine Gore, 1824-1846
  April 27, 2022
  BELCHER, SAMANTHA,LEE (2021) 'A most vexatious trade to make bread by': The Authorial Careers of Christian Isobel Johnstone and Catherine Gore, 1824-1846. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
• The Transformation of the Sleeping Corpse Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
  March 10, 2022
  FENNELL, RACHEL (2021) The Transformation of the Sleeping Corpse Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
• Trauma and Hauntology in Shakespeare’s Early History Plays
  March 7, 2022
  GAN, LINHAN (2022) Trauma and Hauntology in Shakespeare’s Early History Plays. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
• Forms of 'Anxiety' in the Anglo-American Poetic Tradition: Keats and Dickinson in Imaginary Conversation
  February 1, 2022
  TAN, YUANXING (2021) Forms of 'Anxiety' in the Anglo-American Poetic Tradition: Keats and Dickinson in Imaginary Conversation. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.