PhD Theses (Completed)

  • Lluïsa Schlesier Corrales, The Representation of Working-Class Identity in Roddy Doyle’s Fiction (2024, UAB)
  • Hanan Jasim Khannas, The Body Sign: Contemporary Iraqi Fiction and the War on Terror (2022, UAB). Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat (Teoria de la Literatura i Literatura Comparada).
  • Albert Soler Ruda, Cultures de desmobilització. Conflictes, societat juvenil i construcció cultura moderna del veterà de guerra durant la guerra freda 1965–1996 (2022, UAB)
  • David Dickson, The Fictional Representation of the Holocaust: A Legacy of Absences (2019, University of Portsmouth)
  • Carmen Andrés Oliver, A Literary Reading of Olivia Manning’s World War II Trilogies: War Narration, Place and End of Empire, and Gender Roles in “The Balkan Trilogy” and “The Levant Trilogy” (2018, UAB)
  • Christina Howes, Literary Architecture: Dwelling and the Return-Home in the Works of Rachel Seiffert (2018, UAB)
  • Lola Serraf, Writing the “People’s War”: Evaluating the Myth of the Blitz in Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (2017, UAB)

PhD Theses (In Progress)

  • Andrea Sáenz Reinoso, Reassessing War Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Late Fiction (UAB)
  • Isabelle Fratani, Time in the Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh (UAB)
  • Hannah Coombs, Refugee Tales: From the Kindertransport to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (University of Portsmouth)
  • Annelise Hein, Sounding the Borders of Belonging in Contemporary London (Boğaziçi University)
  • Enas Taleb Farid Hamidi, Breaking Down Barriers: Addressing Cultural Factors in Language Learning for Syrian Women Refugees in the UK (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
  • Elvira Aguilera García, ““A vapour of memories rose”: Matter and Memory (De)Constructions in Palestinian Diasporic Anglophone Fiction” (UAB)
  • Cristina Franco Rosillo, Make America Sick Again: The Resignification of Conflict in American COVID-19 Fiction (UAB)
  • Irene Gassó, Margaret Atwood’s Historiographical Metafiction: Questioning Official Misrepresentations of War through Historical and Speculative Fiction (UAB)

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