Mary Margaret Orr

Accepting Postgraduate Research Students

PhD projects

Mary has successfully supervised more than 12 PhD students on topics in French, Comparative Literature and Webscience (in the long nineteenth century to the present). Her former students work in academia, law, teaching, IT and consultancy. Mary welcomes prospective PhD students to discuss projects in her fields of research expertise: (i) French/Francophone prose writing from 1780 (the novel, the short story, juvenile, travel and scientific writing); (ii) French women’s writing and (iii) comparative topics addressing French nineteenth-century culture, literature and science in transnational contexts.