Areas of expertise
My research is concentrated in nineteenth-centuty British literature , with a specific focus on poetry and Pre-Raphaelitism. Poets in whom I take a particular interest are Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Algernon Charles Swinburne. My work is heavily interdisciplinary, and my research often explores connections between nineteenth-century art and poetry. I am also interested in nineteenth-century material culture, as well as the art and literary criticism of the period. I would welcome research proposals in any of these areas.
Conferences
Recent papers and talks
- 17 Dec 2018: "Allegorizing On Her Own Hook": Christina Rossetti’s illustrations to Keble’s The Christian Year' (Christina Rossetti and the Illustrated Book Conference), Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Watts Gallery
- 2 Feb 2017: 'Inside Out: The Enclosed Garden in Pre-Raphaelite Painting & Poetry', Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies
- 28 May 2016: Keynote Speaker at AHRC-funded conference, ‘Reading the Pre-Raphaelites’, hosted by Birmingham City University and Birmingham Museums & Galleries
- 11 May 2016: ‘Christina Rossetti: Past, Present & Future’, English & Media Centre (London) CPD day on teaching Christina Rossetti’s poetry in schools
- 24 Oct 2015: Founders' Day Lecture, 'The Rossettis In America', The Pre-Raphaelite Society
- Victorian Graduate Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Oxford. Lecture title: ‘Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetry’
- 13 - 14 Sept 2013: Conference co-organiser, ‘Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future’. Organised jointly with Professor Christiana Payne (History of Art, Oxford Brookes), St. John’s College Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum