Introduction
My specialism is literature of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
I grew up and went to comprehensive school in London. I read for an Undergraduate Masters in English and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and went to Durham University for my graduate Master’s in Romantic and Victorian Literary Studies. I came to Oxford to write my DPhil on Alexander Pope’s literary legacy in the century after his death. I have taught at many Oxford colleges, in the English Faculty, and at the Department for Continuing Education.
Teaching
I teach literature of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as approaches to literature and literary studies. At Queen’s, I teach FHS Paper 4 (1660-1760) and FHS Paper 5 (1760-1830). I also supervise undergraduate and Master’s dissertations, and a DPhil project on tragedy in Victorian fiction.
Research
My research interests include: literary influence, inheritance, and legacy; literary self-consciousness; intertextuality, metatextuality, and paratextuality; canonicity and counter-canonicity; genre; and women’s writing.
My forthcoming first monograph, Alexander Pope and Romantic Poetics, examines the influence of Pope’s poetry on Romanticism. My second project, Jane Austen and Genre, analyses ways in which Austen destabilises established conventions in novel genres.
Publications
I have published various peer-reviewed chapters, articles, and book reviews. Please see the English Faculty website for a full list.