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Head of Studies
Research Specialisations
- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature (especially British, French, German)
- Realism and Naturalism
- Political Aesthetics
- Fiction and the Supernatural
- Imperialism in Literature
- Literature and the Law (Evidence, Empiricism)
- The Bildungsroman
- The History and Theory of the Novel
Teaching Modules
- Literature and Humanities I & II
- Novel Evidence: 19th-Century British Fiction and the Law
- Literary Activism: Texts, Aesthetics, Politics;Fiction and the Supernatural
- Realism and Naturalism
- Fiction and the Supernatural
- The Self and Society: The Novel of Development
- Proseminar in Literary Studies
- Capstone Seminar (Literature)
Teaching Faculty
Research Specialisations
- Pre-imperial Excavated Manuscripts
- Early Chinese Intellectual History
- Pre-imperial Textual Formation
- Early Chinese Musical Thought
Teaching Modules
- Classical Chinese;Chinese Poetry
- Chinese Prose;Chinese Tales of the Strange
- The Historiography of Sima Qian
- Kong Zi: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
- The Annals of Lü Buwei, the First Book of Chinese Empire
- Intellectual History of Warring States China
- Philosophy and Political Thought 1
- Literature and Humanities 1
Research Specialisations
- Latin Literature
- Augustan and Neronian Poetry and Prose
- Latin and Greek Epic and Didactic
- Ovid
- Roman Religion and Astrology
Teaching Modules
- Literature and Humanities 1
- Latin (all levels: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced)
- Ovid the Innovator
- The Age of Nero
Research Specialisations
- Comparative Literature
- Classical Tradition
- Early Modern Cultures
- European and Global Renaissance
Teaching Modules
- Literature and Humanities I & II
- Global Renaissance
- Dante and the European Middle Ages
- Shakespeare and the Shape of Life
- The Cultural Histories of Libraries and Museums
- Gospels as Literature
- World Religious Poetry, with Gavin Flood
- Proseminar in Literature
Research Specialisations
- American Modernist Poetry
- British literature of the 20th century
- Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry
- The Poetry of Islands, the Islands of Poetry
Teaching Modules
- The Great War and Modern Memory
- American Modernist Poetry
- Dystopian Fiction
- British Comic Fiction
- Poetry, Painting and Photography
- Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction
- Violence, Poetry and the Arts
- Literature and Humanities I & II