Maltese student's thesis 'rare work of outstanding brilliance'

A lecturer at the Junior College and the University’s Department of English has been awarded his Ph.D. by the University of Warwick with no corrections to his thesis.

The examining board hailed Dr Norbert Bugeja’s thesis as “a rare work of outstanding brilliance”, and expressed great optimism in view of his budding academic career.

Examining Dr Bugeja were Joe Cleary and Pablo Mukherjee, two literary scholars of international renown.

Dr Bugeja’s doctoral thesis, “Rethinking the Liminal– Threshold Consciousness in the Mashriqi Memoir”, is a groundbreaking study in the dynamics of the concept of liminality within postcolonialist thought and literature, as well as an indispensable commentary on the contemporary memoir form.

His next article, addressing the work of Palestinian writer Mourid Barghouti, will appear in the March edition of The Warwick Review.

As a Commonwealth scholar, Dr Bugeja pursued his doctoral studies within the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and was supervised by Benita Parry, Neil Lazarus and Rashmi Varma.