My research interests include manuscript studies, textual editing, and early modern religious literature, with a particular interest in Thomas Traherne, and the seventeenth-century devotional writer Susanna Hopton.
I am the general editor of the Oxford Traherne, a 15-volume edition of the works of Thomas Traherne, which has been commissioned by Oxford University Press, and is being undertaken by an international and interdisciplinary team of editors. It will be the first fully annotated critical edition of Traherne, with a detailed exposition of his relationship to the contemporary religious, political, and intellectual context, and a rigorous and ambitious textual analysis of both manuscripts and printed works.
I am also currently completing a biography of Traherne.
I have taught courses on early modern and eighteenth-century literature at several institutions, and have supervised Oxford University M. Phil. and D. Phil. students working on Thomas Traherne. I would be interested in supervising potential D. Phil students in any area of Traherne studies.
