Professor Jane Thomas
| Biography | Professor Thomas is an internationally-recognised expert and author of several book and articles on the life and work of Thomas Hardy. Her media appearances include Radio 4's In Our Time and Woman's Hour, BBC 2's Great British Railway Journeys and BBC 4's Books that Made Britain. Professor Thomas also publishes on Victorian sculpture and visual arts, modern and contemporary women's writing, and literature and place. Her research has been funded by the British Academy and the AHRC, she was appointed Research Fellow of the Henry Moore Institute in 2013 and she has been Academic Director of the International Thomas Hardy Conference since 2010. |
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| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Prof Thomas welcomes applications in the life and work of Thomas Hardy; modern and contemporary women's writing; literature and the visual arts; mid to late Victorian literature. Completed PhDs - Sue Kennedy, 'Sleeping Beauty'? Elizabeth Taylor and her Peers (2017) - Ellie Cope, Mapping the Mind: Men, Madness and Masculinity in Victorian Fiction (2015) - Sarah Berry, Cults, Sororities and Fraternities in Fin de Siècle Literature (2012) - Claire Drewery, Women Modernists and the Short Story (2007) - Julie Ellam, Love in the Novels of Jeannette Winterson (2003) - Amanda Greenwood, Representations of Femininity in the Novels of Edna O'Brien 1960-1996 (1999) Current PhD supervisions - Jackie Goodman, Architectural Symbolism in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature - Andrew Hewitt, Thomas Hardy and the Emotions - Rebecca Devine, Philip Larkin: Epistolary Performances - Helen Alexander, Thomas Hardy and Music - Rachel Allen, Financial Environments and Ecological Incentives in Poetry: A Creative-Critical Investigation |