A selection of postgraduate theses from Anglia Ruskin students working within the scope of our research unit:
Current PhD projects
- Carla Gierich: Los Angeles as an Arrival City in Contemporary Chicano Literature
- Trang Thu Nguyen: Intelligibility in Vietnamese L2 accents of English and the influence of intelligibility on social evaluations of the speaker
- Owen Minns: The teacher as a learner: how English teachers learn Japanese in Japan
- Carlos Podadera: Constructions of the Body Through Medical Discourse in the Spanish Radical Naturalist Novels of Alejandro Sawa
- Stephen Trinder: Neoliberalism with a Human Face? Contemporary Perspectives in Hollywood Science Fiction
Completed PhD projects
Pauline Dodgson: Gender and Trauma in Zimbabwean Literature and Culture, PhD by published work 2015
Marie-France Faulkner: Belonging-in-Difference: Negotiating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature, PhD thesis 2013 – see open access section below
Douglas Eugene Forster: About Decentered Individuals on Screen: An Analysis of American Fantasy Films, PhD – published as Deconstructing Reaganism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014
Christina Langhans: Where is Home? The Quest for Belonging in German Migrant Cinema, unpublished PhD thesis 2017
Martina Barbara Moeller: From Romanticism to Rubble Films: Visual Style and Narration in German Rubble Films from 1946 to 1951, PhD – published as Rubble, Ruins and Romanticism, Transcript 2013
Velat Zeydanlioglu: Kemalism’s Others: The Reproduction of Kemalism in Turkey, unpublished PhD thesis 2007
Open access to selected postgraduate projects (First class MA dissertations and PhD)
Jessica Bellingham: Vampires
Thora Blondal: Questions of Uncertainty
Suzanne Burlage: An evaluation of the impact of cultural differences on the quality of healthcare provided by German clinicians to Turkish Muslim patients
Charline Collard: How far do we assimilate to the business culture and how work impacts on individual identities: a critical analysis
Marie-France Faulkner: Belonging-in-Difference: Negotiating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (PhD)
Bozena Kulczycka: City Portal as a portrait of cultural peculiarities
Christina Langhans: Where Are We Going? Always Home
Delphine Larrousse: Monologue or Dialogue. Challenges of Communication in Latin American Development Work
Fabian Lotze: Practical Implications of Post-Heroic Leadership Theories
Lisa Sumaski: Monolingual Britain in Multilingual Europe?
Stephen Trinder: Going native: Colonial Continuities and Discontinuities in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Anastasia Twigg: Citizenship Education in England: Chimera or Chameleon?
Maja Warnstam: Leadership in an Intercultural Organisational Context