Profile
I joined the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary as a permanent lecturer at the beginning of 2023 after teaching for several years on a range of modules at various levels. During this time, I completed my PhD on the relationship between the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne and the operas of Richard Wagner. This can be found here: Wagner and Swinburne.
I’m interested in interdisciplinary approaches to English teaching and research, especially from neurodivergent perspectives. I blog on music and poetry in terms of Swinburne and the nineteenth century at About – Verseandmusic.com
Publications
Recent and forthcoming publications
- ‘The Music of the Venusberg: Richard Wagner and the Poetry of Arthur Symons’, Salome’s Bookshelf: Artists and Writers of the 1890s (2025).
- ‘Of Lips and Angels: The Rossettis at Tate Britain; Evelyn De Morgan: The Gold Drawings at Leighton House’, CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures, Vol.2.1, (Winter 2024).
- ‘Lying Down or Standing Up for Music: Hearing and Listening in Vernon Lee’s Music and its Lovers’, Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies (2023).
- ‘“Let us adore spilled blood”: Swinburne and the Scandal of Poems and Ballads’, Routledge Handbook of Scandals in Victorian Literature and Culture (2023).
- ‘“A Genius for Inaccuracy”: Edmund Gosse and the Case of Swinburne’s Missing “Ear”’, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism (2022).
- ‘Dannreuther's Hidden Swinburne References Signal Artistic Kinship’, Notes & Queries (2019).
- ‘Swinburne, Wagner, Eliot, and the Musical Legacy of Poems and Ballads’, Journal of Victorian Culture (2018).
