Current research students
Photos and biographies of our current research students.
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Haleh Agar
Haleh Agar’s practice-led PhD explores colonialism’s legacy in the Middle East. The creative part of her thesis is a re-imagining of ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, and is set in the context of the 1953 coup in Iran whereby the CIA and MI6 worked together to overthrow the democratic government in order to keep control of Iranian oil. ‘Coo’, her gothic satire novel, aims to prevent the erasure of context as understanding the Middle East today requires looking back to the western-led coup in 1953.
Erik Morse
Erik Morse is an author, arts writer, editor and former adjunct lecturer, whose current PhD research focuses on the topic of "exurban decadence." His work shifts between creative and historico-critical projects that explore motifs of exurbanism and the purlieus, atmospherics, interiority and the sensorium, the fantastical and quotidian, imaginary tourism, and domestic architectures like the home and garden.
Harry Oulton
Harry Oulton is currently in the final year of his creative writing PhD. His YA novel takes elements from 15th century letters, a Robert Louis Stevenson novel from the 19th century and a family biography from 2004 and fuses them to create a piece of original fiction. This adaptive approach is a way of exploring the methodology of adaptation and transmediation as it applies to Children’s Literature and Outlaw narratives.