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MA.Dissertations: Short Title List, October 2009

[In the following list, emphases are given to themes and to authors’ names, and in some instances to significant periods indicated in the contracted titles]

Melanie Adkins, Beatrix Potter’s adaptation of nursery rhymes, 2005

Carolyn Alderson, Pooh: personality and product, 1998

Constantia Angelidou, Fantasy and female Power: Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover, The Tricksters and The Other Side of Silence

Lara Antonelli, Reader responses to the visual narrative of Pinocchio, 2005

Noga Applebaum, Children and IT: Computers, internet and virtual realities in contemporary literature for young people, 2003

Laura Atkins, Graphic depictions: The representation of history and memory in three graphic novels, 2002

Francesca Attard, Physical and psychological aspects of Pullman’s His Dark Materials, 2005

Sharon Babcock Metafiction and Magic: Subjectivity in the novels of Francesca Lia Block 2007

Shireen Babul  Using picturebooks to develop critical thinking skills, 2008

Susan Bailes, Dolls in children’s literature: The socialisation of girl readers, 1997

Judy Bainbridge Intertextuality in the Marlow novels of Antonia Forest. 2007

Natasha Baker, Thieves in children’s fiction 2004

Clive Barnes, Explorers and natives: Aspects of children’s island adventure stories in Britain and the USA in the early twentieth century, 2003

Anne Bartholomew Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider novels and series fiction. 2007

Julie Barton, Intertextuality,  heroism, alternate worlds and modernity in Harry Potter, 2005

Susannah Beer, The ‘lonely child’ in Astrid Lindgren’s works of fantasy, 2001

Heather Bignold, An investigation into the reading habits and choices of pupils in an independent preparatory school, 2003

Pam Blackman, Memory works: the making and meaning of the stories we tell ourselves, 2002

Lisa Boggis-Boyce, How book form affects content 2004

Lara Bond, The turtle moves [Disc World] 1997

Peter Bramwell, The magic of Susan Price’s The Ghost Drum, 2002

Laurette Bray The ages of Alice in illustrations. 2006

Jennifer Breithoff, The contemporary Black and White picture book. 2006

Melody Briggs, Spiritual worlds in contemporary children’s fiction, 2005

Isobel Brittain, An examination into the portrayal of deaf characters and deaf issues in books for children, 2003

Elizabeth Broad, Traditional tales in the primary classroom, 2002

Denise Burgess, ‘How real do you want your realism?’: a study of four enigmatic texts of Robert Westall, 1996

Jean Burke, National identity in Irish children’s literature, 2001

Erica Burns, The Oklahoma dustbown in children’s literature (Karen Hesse, Tracey Porter, Margot Theis Raven) 2006

Rebecca Butler, Disability in children’s literature, 2004

Alison Cafferty Children’s book covers and changing ideologies, 2008

Bridget Carrington, ‘Good and lovely, and true’:a consideration of  aspects of the context and legacy of Flora Shaw’s fiction for children, 2003

Nicole Carmody, Dance and the world dances with you: the novels of Noel Streatfeild, 2000

Kalliope Chatzisavva, Alki Zei’s politicised spirit in the context of Greek children’s literature and in translation of her historical fiction, 2002

Aimee Chevrette, Formula or phenomenon: a discussion of popular series and the children who read them, 2003

Matthew Chipping, Approaches and attitudes in Fantasy: Alice, Narnia, Harry Potter, 2009

Ling Shao Chiu, Comparative study of five translations of (E.Nesbit’s) Five Children and It in Taiwan. 2006

Christina Christodoulou, Visual literacy and the dynamism of picture books as a strategy for developing children’s visual literacy skills, 2003

Chris Clark, Historical time fantasy: a complex and unstable gestalt, 2002

Leilani Clark, ‘Only connect…’: inclusivity, interdependence and inter-gender connection in contemporary male-authored young adult fiction, 2001

Caroline Clarke, The fate of narrative in CDRom versions of texts for children, 2003

Louisa Clarke, post-apocalyptic children’s fiction, 1970-p.d., 2008

Lauren Clogg, The progression and development of the portrayal of ballet in children’s literature throughout the twentieth century, 2002

Ana Cob Canovas, Spanish and English language novels on the theme of the Spanish Civil War, 2007

Salliann Coleman, Using poetry to ‘unlock the door’ for the reluctant reader, 2004

Caterina Colonellou, Predestined lives in folk and fairytale, 2004

Angela Colvert, A two-pronged approach to player response: hypertextual investigative adventures on CDRom, 2003

Lorna Cowburn, Which witch is which? 2000

Nadia Crandall The Children’s Book Business 1995-2004: Publishers, Retailers, Authors, 2004

Sarah Creegan, Reader response to old and young characters in picture books, with regard to their subsequent deaths and grief, 2004

Rachel Crystal, The adopted child in children’s literature, 2005

Maria Cuevas, Magic in Mexican children’s literature, 2003

Beverley Cusden, The development of the concept of self worth in books for adolescents, 1997

Louise Lubke Cuss, The little library: a recognisable and positive image for all South African children, 2002

Jacqueline Danziger, Girls and their comics, 2005

Jane Dartnall, ‘Plum cake and honey’ : Food in children’s literature, 1998

Mary Davidson, ‘The hidden self’: late Victorian childhood, class and culture in the works of Mrs Molesworth, 1998

Susanna Davidson, Culture, identity, conflict and minority discourses in teenage fiction, 2005

Katie Day, A.L.O.E. [A Lady of England, Charlotte Tucker]: Writing home, 1999

Veronica Dehne Sophie’s World and Theo’s Odyssey, didactic fiction for adolescents, 2005

Lesley Delaney, Henry Williamson – an Edwardian boyhood 2004

Froukje Wiersma Depreux Stories of Adoption 2007

Marie Derrien, Exploring French picture books 2004

Mieke Desmet, Love forever? Teenage romance series in the 90s, 1999

Marion Devons Romance and Realism in the representation of gypsies in children’s literature. 2001

Yael de Jong, The portrayal of Mothers in the work of L.M.Montgomery, 2005

Eva Dietrich, How does children’s literature contribute to education on the Holocaust? Visual accounts of the Holocaust, 2000

Pamela Dix Indian childhoods in British Children’s Fiction, 2007

Stephen Dixon, The significance of Three in Bible stories and fairytales, 1998

Sally-Ann Djachenko Portrayal of Western Art Music in 20thC children’s literature, 2004

Jane Dockeray, Intimations of Mortality, 2004

Janet Dowling, Portrayal of mental illness in Modern children’s literature, 2004

Emma Dyer, The representation of music in contemporary visual texts, 2003

Jeremy Edwards, From one Alice to another: the garden in children’s literature, 1997

Sue Edwards, Time out of mind: Penelope Lively and writing the child, 1997

Valerie Ellis, An underrated writer: some themes in the work of Andre Norton, 1997

Estrella Escriva, Off to sunny Spain? The image of Spanish language in English children’s fiction, 2003

Sherry Eskin, ‘The taming of the Drew’: feminism and feminists in 3 Nancy Drew series, 2002

Cerys Evans, Myth making in comics and graphic novels, 1998

Marta Farrar, The connection between real and imagined forests. 2006

Lucy Felton, Censorship of children’s literature, 2008

Felicity Ferguson, Learning to know their place: Teaching the Lessons in The Royal Readers, 1872-1881, 2005

Hannah Few Tasker The representation of previously taboo subjects in children’s literature, with particular reference to Melvin Burgess. 2006

Anne Flaherty, Of Gods and warriors: myths and their makers in Irish children’s fiction, 2004

Emily Ford, Pushing the picturebook boundaries, 2005

A Forman, In the voice of child: the child narrator, 1999

Posey Furnish, Symmetry matters: an examination of symmetry in picture books, 2002

Jo Gadsden, The monstrous female in fantasy, 2009

Michele Gill, Mary Grant Bruce and the development of Australian children’s fiction, 1999

Sarah Godek, Fabulous Frankensteins: how and why an adult novel has been adapted as children’s visual texts, 2003

Gail Golding, Uncompromising realism: Robert Westall’s books about war, 1997

Lesley Gooden Crossing continents: on the trail of the gingerbread boy 2004

Gina Goody, Parallel universes and reparative phantasy, 2002

Chrystalla Hadjipieri, Children’s literature in Cypriot primary schools, 1998

Dani Hall, Boarding school stories of the 1920 & genre, 2009

Christine Hansen, The treatment of gender in selected works of children’s detective fiction from 1940s to 1990s (Blyton, Nick West, Stefan Wolf, Fiona Kelly)

Georgina Hanratty, Kindertransport narratives for children, 2005

Elizabeth Harrin Analysis of her own creative writing 2007

Sarah Harris, Anthony Browne: his work and his readers, 2000

Diane Harris, Paddington Bear: A Book or a toy? 1999

Jo Hastie, A Victorian in disguise: confrontations in E.Nesbit’s life and literature, 2005

Rebecca Hawker, Monstrous beings in Harry Potter, 2009

Elizabeth Hayes Brown, Adolescent apocalypse: series literature for young adults published at the end of the twentieth century, 2001

Becky Heather, Just my luck: teenage diary novels and how they meet the needs of Appleyard’s adolescent reader as thinker, 2001

Tina Hewson, Appeal of laughter: humour and ideology at the interface of images and words in children’s picture books, 2002

Andrea Hill, Choosing books, a survey of a London Infants school, 2005

Susan Hines, Ways of reading and connecting with self through books, 2005

Shirley Hobson, The dressing and undressing of cats: fashion fact and fantasy in feline fiction, 1999

Rebecca Hodges, Separation in Dorothy Edwards and Shirley Hughes 2004

June Hopper Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice, 2004

Elizabeth Howard, Family values: the image of the family in late twentieth century children’s fiction, 1997

Chia-Hui Hsing, Ambiguity in post-modern metafictional picture books, 2004

I-Lun Hu, Comparative study of Chinese translations of L.I.Wilder, House in the Big Woods, 2008

Yu Yu Huang, Leaving home: a comparative study of young adult fiction in Taiwan and the UK, 1999

Maria Ioannadou Greek Literature and the works of Eugene Trevizas 2001

Yukie Ito Home, belonging and identity in Jamila Gavin’s narratives. 2006

Joanna Jackson Enforced journeys in World War Two 2002

Joanna Jacomb Theories of time in the work of Diana Wynne Jones

Emily Jacques, Fairy tale brides. 2006

Becky James Pupils reading Poetry 1998

Catherine James, Experiments in Form in the novels of Diana Wynne Jones, 1996

Chloe Jarrett, Food & Changing maternal ideals in fairytales, Alice, Pooh, Blyton, Dahl and Harry Potter, 2009

Ruth Jeffery Fiction of addiction for teenagers 1999

Christopher Rhys Jenkins Realism and fantasy in Anthony Browne 1997

Janet Johnson Life and times of R Ballantyne 2000

Nicola Jones Late 20thC fairy tales for adults 2001

Vanessa Joossen Rewriting the epic 2002

Sarah Jupe The communication of stories: interactions between teller and told. 2004

Aishling Kashishian The novelty book 2002

Eva Kaum Ordinary and extraordinary worlds of David Almond 2001

Yoko Kawasaki, Cultural representations of animal and human transformations in Western fairytales and Japanese folk tales. 2006

Jenny Kendrick Characters with learning difficulties in children’s fiction 1999

Anne Kershaw, London in children’s literature 2004

Ho Kyung Kim Realistic fiction of world war two 2001

Jacqueline Kirk, From the gallery to the picturebook:Anholt, Bjork, Q Blake, Browne, Mayhew, van Allsburg 2009

Joanna Kirk Malorie Blackman’s Dystopia and the Adolescent reader 2007

Kathryn Kirkby Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 2007

Wendy Knowles Film versions of classic fairy tales, 1997

Yunghee Koh Parents through the ages, 2000

Nina Koosemlin, Tove Jansson, Moomin books, 2008

Shereen Kreidieh, Children’s Literature in the Lebanon, 2000

Hanako Kumagai 3 novels by F Hodgson Burnett, 2000

Vasiliko Labitsi Mice and lizards: visual aspects of two children’s books from Greece 2003

Clare Lambourne, Changing attitudes towards the naughty child, 2005

Susan Lancaster-Smith, Kenneth Grahame’s works, 1997

Ann Lazim, The representation of Arabs in children’s fiction, 2005

Charlotte Leap, Traditional tales in modern settings: the legacy of fairytales in contemporary picture books. 2006

Ching Yi Lee The translation of picture books in Taiwan 2004

Patricia Lee, Witches in modern children's literature: Margaret Mahy's The Changeover and Terry Pratchett's A Hatful of Sky

Ruth Lewis Access and response of children from ethnic minorities to children’s literature, 1997

Chris Lewis-Ashley Intertextual perspectives on children’s narratives, 2003

Yi-Fen Lien, An analytic study of Nanny fiction (Mary Poppins and ‘Nurse Matilda’) 2007

Ching Hu Lin, Roald Dahl’s modern fairy tales, 2003

Cheri Lloyd, Children’s Literature of the second world war, 1999

Ting-Yi Lo, Translation and Reader Understanding in of Eastern philosophical ideas in U Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, 2005

Beth Lockwood, The mindscape of David Almond, 2005

Renee Ludekens, Utopias & Dystopias in contemporary Adolescent Literature, 2000

Maureen McGrath, Beatrix Potter and her world, 1996

Sophie Mackay, Liminality: Post colonial Narratives of Migration for Adolescents, 2000

Hilary McKenzie, Narrative patterns involving cats 2004

Ewen Mackenzie-Bowie, The Role of the Wolf in children’s literature, 2007

Mifuyu Maki Young Children responding to Animal stories, 1999

Dominique Mamak, Intertextual use of fairytales in Wolf, Clever Polly & Briar Rose, 2005

Sue Mansfield Some British children’s novels of World War One, 1999

Maxine March Perceptions of girlhood in Early literature for children, 1996

Belinda Marsden, Play and learning through small worlds in children’s literature 2004

Judith Martin Representations of Illness in children’s Literature, 2001

Jacqueline Mead Children’s responses to time fantasy: Susan Cooper and Alan Garner, 1996

Gabriela Mejan Ganam, Mexican-American Comics

Stephen Miles, Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?: Lauren Child, a Metafictive masterpiece, 2004

Catrina Millar Using Picturebooks to learn how stories work 2007

Kathleen Milne, Ghosts and children’s literature: Mahy, Westall and a video, 2005

Maiko Miyoshi, Writing and the Self: Tracey Beaker and Dear Mr Henshaw, 2002

Kate Miranda Comics and teen magazines, 1997

Kyung-Mi Moon, Visually Interpreted Folk Tales: Sendak and Browne, 1999

Phila Mtwana. A study of Xhosa literature 1994

Paul Nancarrow, Innocence and experience in Pullman’s His Dark Materials, 2005

Aidan Neal, Shrinking in children’s literature, with reference to Mrs Pepperpot, Alice, andShrinking of Treehorn, 2006

Kate Norbury, The Representation of Sibling relationships in Australian children’s fiction, 1890-1930, 2005

Juliana Nordin, The interaction of beauty and virtue in selected fairytales, Philip Reeve’s quartet, & S. Westerfield’s Uglies trilogy 2007

Diane Norman The Response of Year 6 children to the figure of the Witch, 2000

Lisa Oakden, Representation of Fatness in children’s literature, 2004

Frances Ong, Publishing Young Adult novels in the Philippines, 2005

Sally Ormiston Hilary McKay's 'Exiles' trilogy

Amy Palmer, Tactile books and children with visual impairment, 2005

Jennifer Paul, The continuity of the Girls’ Boarding School from 1749, 1997

Jilly Paver, Victorian Toy Books of Walter Crane, 2000

Arabella Pearson, Intertextuality and story in work of Philip Pullman 1999

Louise Pearson, Illustrated Bible stories for children, 1999

Judith Philo, Dreams of Innocence and Experience, 2003

Hilary Platts, Some animal communities and their quests for utopias, 2004

Catherine Posey, Spirituality in some children’s fiction, 1955-62, 2003

Judith Pye, Autobiographical  Narratives of Streatfeild, Kerr & Sutcliff, 1997

Natasha RadfordComplexity and Sophistication in Children's Picture Books, 2008

Phyllis Ramage Images of the developing world, indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in children’s non-fiction, 2002

Ellen Ramberg The representation of adults in Astrid Lindgren’s realism. 2004

Italia Flores Ramos, The hero in two sea adventure stories, Rees, Pirates & Reuter, The Ring of the Slave Prince, 2008

Jane Ramsey, Fairytales and Illustrators’ Interpretations, 2001

Leela Rashid, Maria Edgeworth and the changing discourses of femininity, 2002

Andrea Rayner, Collage in children’s book illustration 2004

Beth Rich, The power of rhythmic language in poetry 2007

Helen Richardson, Anticipations of Evolutionary Thought in children’s literature, 1999

Stephanie Roberts, Reading choices and attitudes of teenage boys: peer and gender influences, 2009

Matt Robinson, Displacement in the work of Melvin Burgess, 2005

Pam Robson, The middle child in children’s literature  2001

Rachel Rowling Death in picture books 2001

Scott Ryan, Robert Westall, Breaker of taboo, 2000

Marta Dorigo Salamon  The Goddess in Contemporary Children’s Literature, 2007

Veronica Savage, Sport in children’s literature, 2005

Melanie Sefton, Ethical framework in novels of Geraldine McCaughran, 2009

Antonia Harding Shackleford Tactile illustrations in children’s books 2004

Rupal Shah, Changing representation of the Grotesque body, focus on Dahl, 2009

Lauren Sheldon, Bullying in adolexcent fiction, 2008

Maria Shew Retelling Shakespeare 2002

Hisako Shirai Japanese translations of English texts 2002

Anne Simms Shirley Hughes 1995

Caroline Skinner, Representation of Motherhood in Postwar children’s literature, 1996

Sarah Skinner, The Holocaust as portrayed in selected children’s literature. 2006

Louisa Sladen, Angry heroines and female readers in Victorian children’s fiction 2002

Laura Small, Space and solitude in picturebooks of Oliver Jeffers and Shaun Tan, 2009

Eileen Stephenson, Maria Edgeworth’s stories for children 1999

Jean Stephenson, Images of American childhood 1961-81 Newbery Medalists 2000

Rachel Sternberg Feminine and feminist readings of The Secret Garden and Marianne Dreams, 2008

Caroline Stockwell, Listening, observing and interpreting children’s responses to picture books and illustrated texts, 2005

Margaret Strain, Death, grief and bereavement in picture books 2004

Helen Swinyard Western Monotheistic Religion in Pullman’s His Dark Materials, 2003

Handoyo Mintarja Svingnatu Children and myths, 2002

Denise Twist, Children’s reponses to humorous poetry, 2009

Yukiko Suzaki, Construction of childhood and the process of growing up in contemporary literature 2000

Paula Tebay, Nonsense and the child, 1998

Lesley Telford A study of Boys’ Reading 1998

Andrea Telman Children’s Literature and teachers of English as an additional language 2001

Anoma Thavilab Cinderella through the ages 2004

Katerina Themistocles The development of Cypriot children’s literature 1996

Elizabeth Thiel, The Woman known as ‘Brenda’, 2002

Polly Tingle, James Berry’s poems

Fiona Tomlinson Society and best-selling children’s literature 2003

Sarah Toomey, Gender & genre in children’s reponses to picture books 2006

Kathryn Tyson, Railway Journeys as a motif in British children’s fiction, 2004

Josie Verghese, Celebrity authors of children’s books 2004

Kay Waddilove, 1950s Girls’ career novels, 2008

Anne Walker The uses of fire in 19^th & early 20^th C children’s literature, 2008

Jane Watson Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife 1999

Elissa Weissman, The ideology of being cool (Pete Johnson, Cecil Castellucci, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Ned Vizzini). 2006

Catherine Whitehead, A case study of an intergenerational bookgroup. 2006

Marcia Williams Reimagining Shakespeare for children 2002

Anthony Scott Willcock The role of the comic strip hero 2001

Sandra Willson Peter Pan:  a psychoanalytic study 1998

Natasha Worswick Childness, intertextuality and language in Lemony Snickett 2003

Aniliese Wright,  The Classical Fairy Tale as a Hierarchical Model, 2007

Kate Wright Joan Aiken:  constructing female heroes. 2007

Beth Wyllyams Sea Voyages in novels for children  2003

Akiko Yamasaki  Diana Wynne Jones as a modern storyteller 2001

Michael Yeates Rites of Passage of the male in 20thC children’s literature. 1996

Ya Ping Yen, Representation of Nature in a fairytale, a picturebook, and Holes, 2005

Edgardo Zaghini Hesba Stretton 2000

Creative Writing Dissertations

Mara Alperin Novella and self analysis, 2008

Alexandra Britton, Two experiments in writing picturebooks, 2009

Anika Duke, Short stories and analysis, 2009

Marsha Fonseca-Vera Novella and self critique, 2008

Holly Grise, novella and analysis, 2009

Sarah Rowe, novella and analysis, 2009

Madeline Smith, novella and analysis, 2009