Staff profile
| Affiliation | Telephone |
|---|---|
| Assistant Professor in Modern & Contemporary Literature in the Department of English Studies |
Biography
I studied at York (BA) and Oxford (MSt, DPhil). Before arriving at Durham in 2021 I spent nine years lecturing in English at Oriel College and Lincoln College, Oxford.
Research Interests
My research is mainly focused on Irish and American poetry and poetics. My doctoral thesis, and my first monograph project (America and the Irish Poetic Imagination), are concerned with the ways Irish poets have read, thought about and participated in American literary and political culture across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. I am interested in how Irish poetic form, in its evolution and experimentation as well as its engagement with politics and society, has been shaped by real and imagined American environments.
My first book is a scholarly edition of The Letters of Denis Devlin (Cork UP, 2020), and more recent research arising from this project has encompassed modernism and cultural politics in Ireland after independence, and the literary letter.