A ‘Big Dog’ on Route 57
The School of English at the University of Sheffield have just published this year’s edition of Route 57, an online creative writing magazine under the shared editorship of various staff … Continue reading
World Poetry Day 2013
Since 1999, March 21 has been World Poetry Day, a UNESCO event designed to celebrate poetry as a means to promote “dialogue among cultures”. For UNESCO, poetry is distinctly political … Continue reading
Journal Article and Special Issue: ‘(Re)Reading John Addington Symonds’
In September 2010 I co-organised a conference at Keele University dedicated to ‘(Re)Reading John Addington Symonds‘. Symonds is a key figure in my research; I’m interested in him as a … Continue reading
Journal Article: ‘Miss Havisham’s Dress’
Just a quick post to announce the publication of my co-authored journal article in Neo-Victorian Studies. Written with Deborah Wynne of the University of Chester, this article explores different film … Continue reading
Book Chapter: TV, Sex and Society
This month sees the official release of Television, Sex and Society: Analysing Contemporary Representations edited by James Aston, Basil Glynn and Beth Johnson. I have contributed a chapter to this … Continue reading
TLS, 31 August 2012
Just a quick note to announce the publication of my ‘In Brief’ review of Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) in this week’s Times Literary … Continue reading
Publication: Early Career Victorianists and Social Media (JVC 17.3 — iFirst release)
Just a quick post to announce the publication of my article on academic blogging and tweeting: ‘Early career Victorianists and social media: impact, audience and online identities’, Journal of Victorian … Continue reading
Book Chapter: Contradictory Woolf
Just a quick post to announce the publication of my book chapter on Virginia Woolf’s Roger Fry (1940), the Omega Workshops and her contradictory theorising of biography: “But something betwixt … Continue reading
Review Essay on Victorian Life-Writing (JVC 17.1)
A quick post to announce the publication of my review essay on recent studies of Victorian life-writing in the Journal of Victorian Culture. I was asked to review Max Saunders’ … Continue reading
TLS, 20 January 2012
Just a quick note to announce the publication of my ‘In Brief’ review of Richard Locke’s Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels (New York: Columbia University … Continue reading