American Studies

I completed a Master's in English Literature: Nation, Writing Culture at the University of Edinburgh, where I also completed my thesis on Paul Auster in July 2006. My principal areas of research are contemporary American fiction (particularly Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem), and the relationship between Quakerism and American literature, 1780-1900. I also have interests in detective fiction, transatlantic literary relations and Edward Hopper

Modules I teach include New York, New York: An Introduction to American Culture; Burning Crosses: Religion and American Culture, The Detective and the American City and Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” I’ve supervised final year dissertations on Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Paul Auster, among others.  I’m happy to discuss dissertation proposals on all aspects of nineteenth-century American literature, contemporary American fiction, detective fiction, Edward Hopper, and New York in fiction.