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• BA, MA, PhD (Durham)

I am originally from Tynemouth in the north-east of England. I came to Birmingham in 2016, having studied and taught at the University of Durham.

I teach poetry, drama, and prose across the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Birmingham.

Topics of recent and current supervision include: Seventeenth-Century Devotional Writing, Keats and Renaissance Literature, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites, Hopkins and Ecology, Myth in Postcolonial Poetry, Dorothy Wordsworth, Scottish Romantic Writing, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Poetic Identity, Romantic Canons.

I welcome enquiries about research supervision related to any of my areas of interest.

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I鈥檝e written a book about nineteenth century lyric, and a guide to reading poems, as well as a number of chapters and essays on poets in English from Shakespeare onward.

At the moment I am editing a number of volumes: an Oxford World鈥檚 Classics edition of Thomas Lovell Beddoes鈥檚 Death鈥檚 Jest-Book and Other Writings, Oxford Handbooks of William Cowper (with Jessica Fay, Birmingham) and Romantic Poetry (with Matthew Scott, Reading), and (with Will Bowers (QMUL) and Oliver Clarkson (Oxford)) a new three-volume edition of The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley for Oxford University Press.聽

I have organised conferences on the origins and legacies of Romantic writing and thought and on rhyme in English Poetry.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.