About me

I specialise in fiction of the Romantic period, with a particular focus on the Irish national tale and the interactions between Romanticism and Enlightenment. I am currently preparing a monograph on the influence of Enlightenment moral philosophy on the formal evolution of the Romantic-period novel, considering the Jacobin novel, the national tale, historical fiction and moral-evangelical fiction. I also have interests in the digital humanities, book illustration and visual cultures.

I have published articles and chapters on the popular novel in the Romantic period, the digital image archive and illustration studies and the Irish novelist Lady Morgan. I am one of the authors of The Palgrave Guide to Gothic Publishing: The Business of Gothic Fiction, 1764–1835 and I am currently preparing a scholarly edition of Mary Julia Young’s gothic–national tale Donalda; or, the Witches of Glenshiel (1805).

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Cardiff University
  • MA Cardiff University
  • BA Cardiff University.

Professional qualifications

  • FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (from 2016).

Professional memberships

  • Member of the British Association for Romantic Studies.

Subjects

I currently teach on the following undergraduate modules:

  • ENG4105: Romance and Revolution 
  • ENG5102: Nature, Science and Self (module co-ordinator)
  • ENG5109: Gothic Origins and Innovations (module co-ordinator)
  • ENG5104: Gender and Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • ENG5101/6102: Literature and Digital Culture 
  • ENG6000: English Project
  • ENG6103: Writing and the Environmental Crisis

Teaching specialism

  • Romantic-period fiction and poetry
  • Book history
  • Material cultures and digital humanities
  • Popular fiction and print culture from 1780 to 1820
  • Gothic literature.

Research and academic outputs

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