English

I studied English and History at undergraduate level at Keele and stayed on to complete an MA in Twentieth-Century British Fiction. I finished my doctorate on 1950s British fiction in 2001. I have taught at a number of Universities including Staffordshire University, Birmingham University and the Open University before taking up my post as lecturer in English Literature at Keele in January 2005.

My main research interests are in twentieth-century literature and literary and cultural theory, and more specifically in the connections between postmodernism, postcolonialism and contemporary fiction and culture. I have published two monographs: Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007) and Contemporary British fiction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008). I have also had several journal articles published on post-Second World War literature and culture.

I am currently working on a book on Martin Amis, and on further research interests I’m developing around subcultural fictions and aesthetic representations of the events of 9/11.

I am a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies and a member of:

• ACLA: The American Comparative Literature Association
• BAMS: The British Association of Modernist Studies

I teach on three programmes: English; English and American Literatures; and Media, Communications and Culture (MCC) 

Undergraduate modules:

Telling Tales: An Introduction to Narrative Fiction

Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature

Understanding Culture

Postwar British Fiction and Poetry

Aspects of the Novel 1740-1930

Twentieth Century Novels into Films

Contemporary British Fiction

Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

Postgraduate

Postgraduate Director for MA Global Media and Culture

Criticism, Theory, Analysis

Contemporary Cultural and Media Theory

Post/Colonialism: Fiction, Film and Theory

MRes pathways

Contemporary British Fiction

Postmodern Fiction, Film and Theory

Postcolonial Fiction, Film and Theory

Subcultures

MPhil/PhD

I am keen to supervise MPhil/PhD research in the following areas:

Contemporary British Fiction

Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

Postcolonial Fiction and Theory

Literature and Culture of the 1950s and 1960s

Interdisciplinary studies of post-1950 literary and cultural studies

Subcultures: theory and literature

Representations of 9/11

Englishness in Post-War fiction and film