Lecturer in English: Creative and Professional Writing
I have been teaching at the University in various capacities since 2019. I am the Programme Leader for MA English Studies and teach both BA (Hons) English: Creative and Professional Writing and MA English Studies with a background in teaching creative writing and literature.
I hold three postgraduate qualifications in education (Post Compulsory Education, PgCert, and Secondary English) and have Qualified Teacher Status. I also hold a First Class BA (Hons) English degree from the University of Sunderland.
I am currently a PhD researcher. My topic is metempsychosis in David Foster Wallace’s 'Infinite Jest'. My research areas of interest are intertextuality, Irish literature, American literature, Postmodernism, Modernism, Ottessa Moshfegh, and the New Sincerity movement.
Teaching and supervision
I am currently module leader for:
- CPW105 The Business of Writing: Editing and Publishing
- CPW102 Writing Short Fiction and Poetry
- CPW201 Texts and Contexts
- CPW202 Regional Writing: Literature
- CPW204 Submitting Prose and Poetry
- CPW307 Reading as Writers
- LITM65 The Global City: Modern to Postmodern
- LITM66 Dissertation
I also provide teaching support and feedback for our TNE partner college.
Research interests for potential research students
- Intertextuality
- Irish literature
- American literature
- Postmodernism
- Modernism
- New Sincerity movement
- Pedagogy