Titles of PhDs under current supervision
Awarded PhDs
2012
- The Diasporic Romance: Interracial Transgression in Popular Hindi Cinema, by Sarah Joshi
2011
- The Architecture of David Lynch by Richard Martin
- Nicolas Calas: Critic and Curator, by Irini Marinaki
- The Phenomenology of Non-Places: Body, Memory and Aesthetics, by Mitha Budhyarto
- The End of Whiteness: Cultural Pathologies in Late Apartheid South Africa, by Nicky Falkof
- Din Dazzle and Blur: Noise, Information and the Senses in Early Twentieth-Century Society and Modernist Culture, by Matthew Wraith
- An Architecture of Modernism: Literature, Film, and the Free Indirect Disposition, by Alice Gavin
- Auditory Culture in the Early-Showa Period, by Peter Thornton
- Experimental and Living Systems: Stations of a Genealogy of Reflection, 1750-1810, by Ben Dawson
- Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian, by Erman Kaplama
- Remembering the Past, Performing the Present: Turkey in Film, by Ozlem Koksal
- John Latham: Language, Literature and the Art of Destruction, by Nathan Dunne
- Nonsense, Dialogue and Polemics Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy, by Andreas Vrahimis
- Artists in Retrospect: The Rise and Rise of the Retrospective Exhibition, by Constantine Stefanis
- Modern Insomnia: Vicious Circles and Paradoxes of Attention and Will, 1860-1910 by Lee Scrivner
2010
- Between Anarchy and Technology: Key Experiments from the Archive of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1947-1969 by Ben Cranfield
- The Frame of Exception: US Film and Television Featuring ‘Terrorism’, 1990-2010 by Cormac Deane
- Taking Place: Spatial History in Israel and the Case of Salama/Kefar Shalem by Noam Leshem
- Off-Site Art Curating: Case Studies in Taiwan (1987-2007) by Pei Yi Lu
- Generosity of Viewing: Duration in the Spectatorship of Art by Lauren Wright
2009
- Being and Hyper-Imaginal Disappearance by Wissam Mansour
- Challenging the Parergon: How Public Art Institutions Negotiate their Boundaries with Artists and Audiences by Martine Rouleau
- Renegotiation of the Korean New Wave: Korean New Wave in the 1990’s, Nationalism and Gender by Seong-Ju Ham
- The Gnat and the Vacuum: Robert Boyle and the History of Air by Helen Mallinson
- “If We Were Nearer”: A Fictocritical Approach to Writing and Loss in the Lives of Georgiana Molloy and Rosa Praed by Jessica White
- Deleuze and the Ontology of the Photograph by Sandra Plummer
2008
- An Historical Anatomy of the Vinyl Record by Richard Osborne
- Categories, Symbols and Time: History’s Place in Nature by Francis Gooding
- The Aesthetics of Violence: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Cinema of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino by Arturo Serrano
- Envisioning the City, Envisioning the Home: Literary and Filmic Representations of Mass Housing in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century London and Paris by Matthew Taunton
- The Political Nature of Art Today by Dean Kenning
2007
- Shock of the Void. The senseless as strategy in Dada and Fluxus by Dorothee Brill
- The Fugitive and the Infinite - tracing the sublime in the contemporary landscape by Colette Meacher
- Symbols of the Soul: The Technics of Culture in Oswald Spengler’s ‘Decline of the West’ by Stephen Wheeler
2006
- This Not Knowing Needn’t Bother Us: Artistic Uses of Incompetence by Seth Kim-Cohen
- Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: The Many Returns of Futurism by Ricarda Vidal
- Access and Aesthetics: A new reading of ‘public’ in relation to art by Nina Pearlman
- The Bourgeois Transformation of Thai Cinema: Film Culture and the Thai Crisis of Authority Since the 1970s by May Ingawanij
- Origin and Becoming: Orientation, Anticipation and The Creaturely in the Thought of Walter Benjamin, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Hugo von Hofmannsthal by Nick Lambrianou
- Two Steps Forward… The Faltering Progress of the Avant-Garde in England, 1909 - 1939 by Bernard Vere
- The Politics of Verticality: The Architecture of Israeli Occupation by Eyal Weizman
2005
- A Western Abstract: The Hollywood Western and the Hinterlands of Social Capital by Jeff Adams
- Gentlemen and Players. The Victoria and Albert Museum: an institutional case study of the Culture and Society Tradition by Ruth Adams
- Women and Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London by Kathy Battista
- The Aesthetics of Vulgarity and the Modern American Novel by Katie Kitamura
- Site Specific Sound: Architecture and Aurality by Brandon LaBelle
2004
- Jammin’ the Critical Theory by Pierandrea Gebbia
- Gravity and Fantasy: The Art and Culture of Weight by Catherine James
- ‘Perspective’ means ’seeing through’: the structure of the subject in architecture and psychoanalysis by Lorens Holm
- Model Behaviour: Architecture and the Miniature by Mark Morris
2003
- Measuring Vortices: Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics by Chris Hight
- Alone at Last: Honeymooning in America, 1820-1880 by Barbara Penner
- The Ultimate Rush: CPR and the Contemporary Deathbed by John Tercier
- Anti-foundationalism and Liberalism by Fabrizio Trifiro
2002
- Imitation of Life: Cross-Cultural Reception and Remakes in Turkish Cinema by Ahmet Gürata
2000
- The Ideology of the Visible - Aspects of British Illustrated Journalism c. 1800 - 1918 by David Morgan
- The Disgusting: the unrepresentable from Kant to Kristeva by Chris Turner
Titles of PhDs under current supervision.
- Dnt b wstfl: The complexity of high density living by Barbara Chomicka
- The Cinematic Expression of Material Nature: Film Theory after Political Ecology by Eu Jin Chua
- Enmeshed Movement: Choreographic cinema and the perceptual body by Elinor Cleghorn
- Shared Table: invitational art using the meal scenario for restorative purposes in the 1990s and in contemporary practice by Sian Evans
- Framing the Architectural Event: Narratives and Impacts of the 1977 New York City Blackout by Christiane Fashek
- Sacred Vessels: Examining the reuse of religious buildings as museums and cultural centres by Rebecca Faulkner
- Invisible Insurrections - the revolution in art and the art of revolution from the 1960es until today by Kasper Frederiksen
- Time, Relationship and the Social: Badiou, Mathematics and the Non-Public’ by Alistair Gill
- Concert Hall Listening in the 21st Century: an ethnographic study of audience practice and experience by Jonathan Gross
- Art in Motion: A Study of the Choreographic Impulse in Early Modernism by Cecile Guedon
- The Sublime “After Nature”: Meanings of Nature in Art, with Particular Reference to Contemporary Art Practices by Rikke Hansen
- Sight and Transgression: Ideas of the Ovidian Gaze by Oliver Harris
- The Diasporic Romance: Conventions and Transgressions in Popular Indian Cinema by Sarah Joshi
- Beckett and Music: Incarnating the idea by Tom Mansell
- Narratives of Daughter-Father Incest: from Classical Rome to Confessional Climates by Jean Owen
- Inside Two Rooms: How We Make Meaning in the Museum and Make it Personal by Seph Rodney
- The legacy of Weimar critiques of subjectivity in Friedrich Kittler’s media theory by Stephen Sale
- Structures of Light: Body and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition by Ahmad Sukkar
- Narrating Waste by Will Viney
