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Current Postgraduate Research topics

Research topics currently include:

Aberystwyth University

English: Women's educational literature 1750-1830; Eliza Haywood; Anglo-Welsh literature: Griffin Papers --C18th; Welsh identities, 1640-1660 -- Mostyn archive; medieval and early modern dream visions; Shakespeare and conduct literature; late medieval devotional literature; the Plague in medieval literature; retellings of the Mabinogion and Quaker narratives.

Bangor University

History: The career of Archbishop John Morton, 1471-1500; English perceptions of Germany, 1648-1714.

English: Political Literature of the mid-seventeenth century; Poetry, Passion and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England; Representations of early modern racial expectations (Arab and Moorish) and Elizabethan drama; the horse in Malory and romance; the reception of the Prose Merlin; Carlisle in the Gawain romances; Chaucer; perceptions of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England.