English

I joined Keele in 2009, having studied at the Universities of East Anglia, Leeds and Nottingham. I teach courses across the English programme. My research interests are in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, particularly the intersections between literature and history, religion, politics and philosophy, as well as the relationships between historicism, formalism and book history.

At present, I am writing a monograph on Daniel Defoe’s contribution to the emergence of the English novel, entitled Daniel Defoe and the History of Fictional Form, as well as a guide to literary criticism on the eighteenth-century novel. In the longer term, I am starting work on a cultural history of allegory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I would be glad to hear from students interested in working in any of these areas.