Thesis Title: Negative Constructions in the Long Nineteenth Century
Supervisor: Prof. Seamus Perry
Thesis: My work compares how Romantic and pre-Romantic English writers used negative constructions. I look at Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth and Hardy, reactionary poetics in the twentieth century and the 'lyric paragraph'.
Publications:
- ‘Despair Disassociated’, The Nabokovian, 2015
- ‘Life, Literature, and the Academy in Philip Roth and Vladimir Nabokov’, Philip Roth Studies, 2018. Winner of the Siegel McDaniel Award
- ‘Thomas Hardy's ‘In St. Paul's A While Ago’: A Source for Philip Larkin's ‘At Grass’’, Notes and Queries, 2022
- “Despite Divergence: Thomas Hardy’s The Temporary the All’, The Thomas Hardy Journal, 2022
- ‘Thomas Hardy’s Markings in his Copy of Henry Vaughan’s ‘Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations’, and their Significance to ‘The Darkling Thrush’’. Notes and Queries, 2022
- From ‘Algy’ to ‘Algeciras’: A Chiastic Pattern in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, Notes and Queries, 2025