PhD Students

Since 1980, he has successfully supervised over fifty PhD theses:

1. Sandra Penney: First-person narration in the works of Conrad and later novelists (1980-84). Funded by a Northcliff Scholarship. Dr Penney subsequently took up a teaching post at the University of Newfoundland.

2. David Miller on W. H. Hudson (1981-86). The thesis was subsequently published as W.H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise (Macmillan, 1990). Dr Miller became a researcher on an AHRB-funded project at Nottingham Trent University and subsequently joined the academic staff there.

3. Susan Tiley: 'Joseph Conrad: Language and Narrative' (1983-89). Dr Tiley became a consultant in the computing industry.

4. Nik Panagopoulos on Conrad and Schopenhauer (1988-93). The thesis was later published as The Fiction of Joseph Conrad: The influence of Schopenhauer and Nietszche (Peter Lang, 1998). Dr Panagopoulos took up a teaching post in Greece at a private university.

5. Daniel Lea on J.G. Farrell (1992-96). Dr Lea became a lecturer at John Moore's University, Liverpool, and subsequently at Oxford Brookes.

6. Anna-Marie Allen on Henry James (1992-97). Dr Allen became a financial consultant.

7. Siv Janssen on the representation of mothering in Victorian fiction (part-time 1984-98). Dr Janssen became a lecturer at Greenwich University and now teaches in New Zealand.

8. Teng Hong-Shu: 'Conrad and Conspiracy' (1995-99). dr Teng became an Associate Professor at Feng Chia University, Taiwan.

9. Patricia Scanlan on English surrealism (part-time 1989-99). Dr Scanlan became a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of North London and now runs Artery Editions.

10. Heloise Coffey: 'An Examination of the relationship between female emancipation and imperialism in the writings of Lady Florence Dixie' (part-time 1995-2001). Funded by the British Academy.

11. Susan Barras on games and gaming in late-nineteenth-century colonial fiction (1998-2001). Funded by the AHRB. Dr Barras became a sixth-form teacher.

12. Hilda Bronstein on Mina Loy (1998-2002). Funded by the British Academy. Dr Bronstein became a Lecturer in Creative Writing.

13. Redell Olsen on contemporary women's poetry (1998-2002), Funded by the British Academy. Dr Olsen became a Lecturer in English Literature at Royal Holloway.

14. Olivia Jennings on Janet Frame (1997-2002). Funded by the British Academy.

15, Hwang Pao-i on national identity and contemporary fiction (1999-2003). Dr Hwang became Associate Professsor at Taiwan National University.

16. Yael Levin : 'Joseph Conrad and the Otherwise Present' (2000-03).The thesis was published as Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Dr Levin became Lecturer in English at Tromso University. She now teaches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

17. Tiffany MacEnroe on Mangan, Yeats and Joyce (2006). Dr MacEnroe went on to teach at Brunel University.

18. Georgina Colby on Kathy Acker and Brett Easton Ellis (2007). Part of the thesis was published as Brett Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2010). Dr Colby became a Lecturer in American Literature at Westminster University.

19. Maria Ollivere on D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis (2011).

20. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Poethic Economy (2011). Dr Burnett is now Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University, and the thesis was the basis for her recent monograph.

21. John Wallen on Richard Burton and Orientalism (2011). This was published as Richard Burton and Orientalism.

22. Andrew Purssell on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene (2011).

23. Sarah Perry (2012). This was a practice-based PhD jointly supervised with Andrew Motion. The novel was published in 2014.

24.William Searle (2013). This was a practice-based PhD jointly supervised with Andrew Motion. It included a critical component on Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, R.S. Thomas and ecology.

25. Jan Kosecki on J. M. Coetzee (2013).

26.Vali Gholami on Conrad and narratology (2013). Dr Gholami is now lecturing in Iran.

27. James Sumner (co-supervised with Douglas Cowie) (2013). A novel, The Excursionist, and a critical component on travel writing and satire.

28. Patricia Pye, Sound and modernity in Conrad's London Fiction (2013). This provided the basis for her recent monograph from Palgrave, Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918.

29. Andrew Glazzard, Character Types from Popular Fiction in Conrad's Urban Fiction (2013). This was published by Palgrave as Conrad's Popular Fictions (2017).

30. Helen Taylor, The Liverpool Scene (2013).

31 Anna Whitwham (co-supervised with Andrew Motion). A practice-based PhD which produced the novel, Boxer Handsome (2013).

32. Hyun Sook Oh, 'A Deleuzian reading of Hanif Kureshi and J.M. Coetzee' (2014).

33. Philip Rowland (with Martin Dodsworth), Laura Riding (2014).

34. Balazs Csizmadia, 'Conrad and Narratology' (2014).

35. Paul McLoughlin, 'The Poetry of Brian Jones' (2015).

36. Robert Selby (co-supervised with Andrew Motion). A practice-based PhD involving a volume of poetry and a critical thesis on Mick Imlah (2015).

37. Dominic McLoughlin (co-supervised with Jo Shapcott). A practice-based PhD involving a volume of poetry and a critical thesis on 'Reading as a Writer' (2015).

38. Liou Wei-Ting,The Colonial Palimpsest in Taiwanese Literature (2015). Dr Liou is adjunct assistant professor at Tamkang University.

39. Declan Ryan (co-supervised with Jo Shapcott). A practice-based PhD involving a volume of poems and a critical thesis on Ian Hamilton (2015).

40. Adam O'Riordan (co-supervised with Andrew Motion). A practice-based PhD involving an historical novel and a critical thesis on some recent historical novels by William Boyd, Alan Hollinghurst and others (2016). Dr O'Riordan is Lecturer in Creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

41. Penny Rudge (co-supervised with Andrew Motion). A practice-based PhD involving a novel and a critical thesis on the representation of deafness and blindness in literature.

42. Kate Potts (co-supervised with jo Shapcott). A practice-based PhD on poetic radio drama (2016).

43. Yusuke Takahata, Conrad and narrative. Dr Takahata is now associate professor at Saitama University, Tokyo.

44. Nisha Ramayya (co-supervised with Redell Olsen). A practice-based PhD (2016).

44. Ben Felderhof. the jungle in late-nineteenth-century fiction (2017).

45. Karen McCarthy Woolf (co-supervised with Jo Shapcott), At the Centre of the Edge: Contemporary Ecological Poetry and the Scared Hybrid. This is a p[ractice-based PhD, which included a collection of poems, 'Seasonal Disturbances'.

46 Aimee Le, 'The National Question' in American Literature, 1913 to the present. This is a practice-based PhD, where the critical component provides the context for a creative exoploration of the American Vietnamese experience.

47. Alison Gibb. 'Visual Arts Practice as a Basis for Experimental Poetic Practice' (2018).

48. Kasia Nowak, Faulkner's Polyphonic Narrative' (2018).

49. Michael James. Trade Unions in Recent and Contemporary Poetry (2018).

50. Ahmed Honeini. Death in William Faulker's Fiction (2018).

51. Mary Jean Chan (with Jo Shapcott), a practice-based Ph.D. (2019).

52. Gizem Okulu. 'Cultural Narratives and Aletrnative Topologies in the Works of Etel Adnan, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Sevini Burak' (2020).

Professor Hampson served on the RAE panel for 2008 and the REF panel for 2014. He has also served on the Rumanian and Hong Kong RAE panels. He was a member of the QAA Benchmarking Group for Creative Writing (2015) and is currently a member of the Practice Research Advisory Group, and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Advisory Committee..