My current main research interests are the Brontës, and literary representations of disease and contagion, I teach a third-year module on Victorian literature and a second-year module on literature, disease and contagion. I received my undergraduate degree, MA and PhD from the University of York. I completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in 2014 and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I teach on modules across all year groups, and contribute to the MA as well as supervising PhDs in the department, I designed and direct modules on contagion and infection in literature, and on Victorian literature.
My current research is primarily interested in the Brontës, in various different contexts. My monograph, "Charlotte Brontë and Contagion" was published in 2024. I edited a special issue of the Brontë Studies on Contagion, Sickness and Isolation (2021), and have also contributed a chapter, "The Brontës And Popular Culture: Reading and Misreading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights" to The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts" (eds Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne).
Forthcoming work includes a chapter about Charlotte Brontë's many and complex uses of her pseudonym, Currer Bell, for The Routledge Companion to the Brontës" for Routledge; a chapter on tuberculosis in the Brontës' novels for The Palgrave Handbook of Tuberculosis and Consumption in Literature and Culture.
Recent publications
I act as an External Examiner for the University of Huddersfield.
I am the co-founder of the York Research Unit for the Study of Satire, and co-host a monthly podcast on the subject.
