I am a specialist in American writing with particular interests in conflict, testimony, and trauma. I have published research on a range of literary figures such as Ernest Hemingway, James Jones and Norman Mailer. My PhD was completed in 2015 and explored cultures of masculinity in American war fiction.
My teaching interests include American literature, form and genre, conflict writing, trauma theory, creative nonfiction and gender. I am currently supervising PhD projects on a range of music histories and studies of memory and nostalgia.
I teach on the following modules:
- Forms of Narrative
- Mapping America
- Conflicting Words
- American Radicals
- Gender & Sexuality
- Form and Genre Now
- Research Now 2
I currently work on music writing in the form of creative non-fiction and am a founding member of the Music, Memory, and Narrative Research Group. I co-edited the Bloomsbury edited collection Music, Memory and Memoir (2019), the Equinox collections Venue Stories (2023) and Turntable Stories (forthcoming). My creative writing can be found on the Twistin’ My Memory, Man blogspace. I also work on issues and ideas such as music memoir as an emerging genre, grunge myth, rave memory and shoegaze aesthetics as well as the written work of figures like Mark Lanegan and Kristin Hersh.
Recent publications
Membership
- British Association of American Studies
- Music Memoir Research Group
