Dr  Kaye Mitchell - Further information

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in working on any area of twentieth century/contemporary literature, culture or theory - particularly those focusing on matters of gender and/or sexuality. My recent and current PhD students have worked on topics as diverse as:

• Translation in contemporary Northern Irish literature
• The modernist essay
• Reading and interactivity: literary experiment, hypertext fiction, and online gaming
• Space and sexuality in contemporary fiction
• The neo-80s novel and historicisations of the recent past
• Queerness and stupidity
• Marginalia in J.M. Coetzee and David Foster Wallace
• Contemporary literature and religion
• Proceduralism and the autonomy of play in computer gaming
• The 'composite novel' and the short story cycle

In addition, I would be happy to answer any queries about the MA Contemporary Literature & Culture, for which I am Course Director.

I'm affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (find out more about CSSC at: www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/research/cssc/) and am involved in the annual Sexuality Summer School, details of which can be found at the CSSC site.

In the last few years, in addition to my academic conference papers, I've done talks for the following festivals, events and organisations:

Ladyfest Manchester: www.ladyfestmanchester.com

Queer Up North: www.queerupnorth.com

Homotopia: www.homotopia.net

'Outing the Past' (LGBT History Month, Lancashire Archives): www.lancashire.gov.uk/corporate/web/

The Prince's Teaching Institute: www.princes-ti.org.uk/

Manchester Literature Festival: www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/