Lecturer in English: Creative and Professional Writing
I hold a first-class BA (Hons) English degree from University of Sunderland. I have been teaching at the University, in various capacities, since 2019. I teach BA (Hons): Creative and Professional Writing and MA English Studies with a background in teaching creative writing and literature.
I also hold two postgraduate qualifications in education (Post-Compulsory Education and Secondary English) and have Qualified Teacher Status.
I am currently a PhD researcher. My topic is Metempsychosis in the Novels of David Foster Wallace. My research areas of interest are intertextuality, Irish literature, American literature, Postmodernism, Modernism, and the New Sincerity movement.
Teaching and supervision
I am currently module leader for:
I also provide teaching, support and feedback for the following modules:
- CPW105 The Business of Writing
- CPW201 Texts and Contexts
- CPW202 Regional Writing: Literature
- CPW204 Submitting Prose and Poetry
- ELL392 The Play's the Thing: Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres
- LITM65 The Global City: Modern To Postmodern
- CWR304 Writing the Novel (interim)
I also provide teaching, support and feedback for the following modules:
- CPW101 Reading and Literature
- ELL370 Advanced Study (English Literature)
Research interests for potential research students
Intertextuality, Irish literature, American literature, Postmodernism, Modernism, and the New Sincerity movement.
- Intertextuality
- Irish literature
- American literature
- Postmodernism
- Modernism
- New Sincerity movement
- Pedagogy