Doctoral study in English

We offer supervision in the standard PhD and in the PhD with creative practice.

We welcome PhD proposals in areas including:

• Māori, Pasifika and New Zealand literature
• Global Indigenous literatures
• Literature, evolution and cognition
• Digital arts theory
• American literature
• Medieval literature, culture and drama
• Shakespeare and early modern drama
• 19th-century literature
• Modernist literature, culture and drama
• Contemporary literature
• Contemporary theatre
• Transcultural creative writing
• Poetry and poetics
• Narrative and literary theory
• Trauma and cultural memory

Our internationally renowned researchers in literary studies and drama include a number of award-winning poets and novelists.

• "Unsettling Narratives: The Search for Self and Belonging in the Wilderness" | Supervised by Professor Alex Calder and Associate Professor Paula Morris
• "Reimagining Home and Identity: Exploring New Voices in Chinese Diasporic Literature through a Comparative Study of Male Writers from Australia and New Zealand in the 21st Century" | Supervised by Professor Alex Calder and Professor Erin Carlston
  
• "King Lear, Heidegger, and the Encounter with Things and Nothing" | Supervised by Emeritus Professor Tom Bishop and Associate Professor Sophie Tomlinson
• "A Voyage of Conservation, Disruption and Extension: Tracing the Genealogy of Jacques Lecoq's Theatre Pedagogy in Aotearoa New Zealand" | Supervised by Associate Professor Murray Edmond and Associate Professor Emma Willis
  
• "Mana moana: Wayfinding and five Indigenous poets" | Supervised by Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh

There are several scholarships you may be eligible for when you decide to pursue your PhD in English:

• University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarships
• John Cowie Reid Memorial Drama Scholarship
  

Our friendly Student Hub staff will provide you with advice on enrolling in your PhD.

If you would like to discuss your plans for your doctoral research you can contact our PhD Adviser.