My profile

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

I graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Econ) in Government and have an MA and PhD in English Literature from the Victoria University of Manchester.

Languages

English, French.

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

 Reader for the following presses: 

Edinburgh University Press; Manchester University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Routledge; University of Wales Press

Peer reviews for the following journals:

Adaptation; British Association of Romanticism; Clio;  The Feminist Review; Gothic Studies (member of the editorial board), Gender Studies; Mosaic; Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature; University of Toronto Quarterly

Member of the judging panel for the International Gothic Association’s Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2013-2019

Projects

Currently editing The Edinburgh Companion to Gomic Gothic wit Avril Horner (Emeritus Professor at Kingston University).

Teaching

Why do I teach?

I have now retired from teaching.

Subject areas

I no longer undertake teaching and research supervision.

Research outputs

Prose fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Gothic; women’s writing.