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Some of our current PhD students tell us what their research within the Institute involves.

  • Photograph of Yewande Adeniran

    Yewande Adeniran

    Yewande’s research focuses on a contemporary analysis of the ontology of Blackness with British-Nigerian individuals as the primary focus.

    Read about Yewande's research

  • Photograph of Imogen Durant

    Imogen Durant

    Imogen's research focuses on the influence of the cinema on British poetry in the 1930s and 1940s

    Read about Imogen's research

  • Elizabeth Gow

    Elizabeth Gow

    Elizabeth’s research explores and analyses the book collecting of Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library, to reveal what she acquired, how and for what purpose. 

    Read about Elizabeth's research

  • Roxana Gregor-Som photograph

    Roxana Gregor-Som

    Roxana’s research focuses on the social structure of the landowners and tenants in Hermopolis in the period after 400.

    Read about Roxana's research

  • Alex Hurlow

    Alexander Hurlow

    Alex’s research focuses on the development of Norman identity in thirteenth and fourteenth century Capetian France. 

    Read about Alex's research

  • Oscar Seip

    Oscar Seip

    Oscar's work focuses on Italian and French humanistic culture during the early modern period and in particular on the role of the theatre in the development of cultural and intellectual institutions.

    Read about Oscar's research

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  • The John Rylands Research Institute
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  • Student spotlights
    • Yewande Adeniran
    • Imogen Durant
    • Elizabeth Gow
    • Roxana Gregor-Som
    • Alexander Hurlow
    • Oscar Seip