English

I am a Lecturer in English (1750-1850) and editor of The Byron Journal. I studied at Oxford and Liverpool and held posts at Chester and Aberystwyth before arriving at Keele in 2009. I research and work in three main areas: Romanticism, material culture in the nineteenth century and the representation of alcohol in literature and culture. I am researching and writing a monograph titled The Hangover: A Cultural History, 1600–2000 (forthcoming with Liverpool University Press) and am co-editing a sourcebook of contemporary accounts of The Great Exhibition of 1851. I would be very interested in hearing from you if you are looking to research in any of my areas of specialism, particularly Byron. For information and queries about submissions to The Byron Journal please follow this link. 

At present I teach on the modules Reading Literature, Poetry through Practice, Gothic Fictions and Romanticisms. I would welcome PhD students with interests in nineteenth-century literature and culture, particularly the writing of Coleridge and Byron.