My research interests are in poetic form, post-Second World War poetry and Jane Austen
I am working on a history of English elegy.
Some publications
'Soundscapes' in Jane Potter, ed., The Cambridge History of World War One Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Tony Harrison and the Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
'Material Goods' in Cheryl A. Wilson and Maria H. Frawley, eds, The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Guest editor, Special edition on Jane Austen, Humanities. 2021.
Poetry and Class. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
'Metre and Memory, and Mnemosyne' in Edith Hall, ed., New Light on Tony Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2019.
'Black Daisies for the Bride' in Katarzyna Bronk, ed., Autumnal Faces: Old Age and Ageing in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives. London: Peter Lang, 2017.
'Satire and Estrangement' in Dominic Head, ed., The Cambridge History of the Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
'Poetry and Class' in Ed Larrissy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry Since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions: the Significance of Objects. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
The Poetry of Ted Hughes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
The Unbearable Saki. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
‘Sex in the “sick, sick body politic”: Tony Harrison and fruit’, in Cedric Barfoot, ed., And Never Know the Joys. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.
George Bernard Shaw: Plays. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
H, v. & O: The Poetry of Tony Harrison. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Tony Harrison: Loiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997.
Shorter contributions to collections include
‘George Mackay Brown’ and ‘Saki (H.H. Munro)’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Authors Supplement vol. VI. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2000. ‘
Andrew Marvell’ and ‘Daniel Defoe’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Authors Supplement vol. VIII. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002.
‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002.
‘Emma’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2003.
‘Wuthering Heights’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2003.
‘Vanity Fair’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2003.
‘Jon Stallworthy’, in Jay Parini, ed., British Authors vol. V. New York: Charles Scribner’s 2004.
‘Sara Maitland’ in British Writers vol. VI. New York: Charles Scribner’s 2005.
‘Saki’ in Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm, eds, The Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Oxford: Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Tony Harrison’, in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
