B.A. (Hons) in English, University of Cambridge (2000)

M.A. in Issues in Modern Culture, Faculty of English, University College London (2001)

PhD, University of Cambridge (2004)

My main research interests are in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry, British and European Romanticism, philosophical aesthetics, and literary theory (especially poetics). I have published on the work of Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Clare, and Robert Browning, and also Immanuel Kant and Theodor Adorno. I am currently writing a book about the poetry and poetics of Percy Shelley, as well as articles on the poetry of Robert Browning (for The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Poetry) and theology, beauty, and modern thought (for The Oxford Handbook to Theology and Modern Thought). Planned research projects also include essays on the following topics: ‘justification’ and ‘proof’ in Walter Benjamin’s literary criticism; the idea of consumption in William Blake; and ‘grammetrics’ in the work of the contemporary poet Giles Goodland.

For full details of my publications, please see my ‘Publications’ tab above.

I am happy to hear from students wishing to undertake doctoral research in any of the areas of my research interests (listed above).

 

• LITE1F03 Reading Texts

• LITE1F08 Reading Texts II

• LITE2X15 Critical Theory and Practice

• LITE2Y11 Eighteenth-Century Writing

• LITE2Z30 Nineteenth-Century Writing

• LITE3X71 Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century

• LITEM056 Is Art Alive?

• LITEM011 Critical Theories of the Western Self

I have been the Director of Teaching for the School of Literature and Creative Writing since January 2010. I convene the School’s Teaching Committee and am a member of its Executive, Promotions, and Staff-Student Liaison Committees.