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Research Interests

My research interests span stylistics, with a particular focus on Possible Worlds Theory and readers' emotions, and English in education. I am currently finalising a monograph titled Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature for Bloomsbury. I am also working on a short monograph for the Cambridge Elements in Stylistics series in which I focus on exploring the importance of emotion in the pedagogical practices of stylisticians teaching in Higher Education. 

Teaching Activity

I have taught on a variety of modules across our English programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

First Year: Reading Poetry, Literary Genres in English, Literature in History, English Language Across Time and Space, Stylistics 
Second Year: Writing and Ideology, Literature in Film, Working with Language Data 
Final Year: Language and Literature in Education
MA: Language and Literature in Education, Applying English, Research Methods in TESOL 

I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. 

Qualifications

BA (Hons) English and French (University of Warwick)

MA Creativity, Arts, Literacies and Learning (University of Nottingham)

PGCE (University of Nottingham)

PhD Literary Linguistics (Aston University)

PhD Supervision

I would be interested in supervising doctoral research projects in the following areas: 

  • Cognitive stylistics
  • Reader response studies 
  • Narratology/narrative theory
  • Empirical studies of literature 
  • Contemporary literature 
  • English in education 

Please get in touch via email if you are interested in working with me on any of the above. 

Membership of Professional Bodies

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Poetics and Linguistics Association (Member) 

Responsibilities

Departmental responsibility for Outreach. 

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