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2005 PhD, The University of Lancaster (English, on letters by John Ruskin)
1995 MA, The University of Western Ontario (English, A with distinction; thesis on Margaret Avison; coursework on medieval, eighteenth century and contemporary literature)
1994 BA Acadia University (4-year Honours in English; University Medal in English)
1992 Associate of Arts, Atlantic Baptist University (now Crandall University; 2-year programme; Prize for Highest Standing)
I joined the Manchester Metropolitan University as the Programme Leader for English on the Cheshire/Crewe campus in 2008 and became the Principal Lecturer for RKE in the Department of Interdisicplinary Studies (2015-19).
Prior to working at Manchester Met University, I was the Research Associate on a three-year, AHRC-funded project: 'John Ruskin, Cultural Travel and Popular Access'. Based at Lancaster University's Ruskin Research Centre, the P-I was Professor Keith Hanley and the Co-Is were Professors Brian Maidment and John Walton (2005-2008).
As a Postdoc and Postgrad, I taught at HEIs in the UK (The University of Lancaster and The University of Cumbria) and Canada (The University of Western Ontario and Crandall University).
I have also been employed in a variety of other posts within the HE Sector, including: Copy-Editor, Development Officer, Editorial Manager, Public Relations Officer and Student Support Officer.
University Roles
University Orator (2016-19), Cheshire Faculty Staff Representative on Academic Board (2009-2015; 2018-19).
Faculty Committees and Administrative Groups
Previous: Academic Quality and Standards Group ( 2011-19), Humanities and Social Sciences Research Group Cheshire (Co-lead 2015-19), Research Degrees Committee (2014-19), Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee (2014-19).,HER Champions Group (2015-16) Research Ethics and Governance Committee (2016-17), Single Honours Programme Committee (Chair 2014-16), Combined Honours Programme Committee (2008-2016,), Undergraduate Programme Committee (Chair 2017-18), Education Committee (2017-18), Programme Co-Ordinators and Leaders Forum ( 2017-18),
Previous Departmental Roles in Interdisciplinary Studies
2015-19: Departmental Management Group, Research Lead, Research Degrees Co-Ordinator, Quality Lead Undergraduate Programmes Co-ordinator; 2008-2015:Programme and Subject Leader for English.
English and French
English Literature is a rich subject. Reflecting our complex lives, it overlaps and interlaces with many other disciplines. I am particularly interested in how literature intersects with craft and art, nature and sustainability, history and the future, helping us encounter, create and live narratives of healthy, and truly wealthy ways of living.
This approach is inspired by Victorian polymath John Ruskin who wrote: 'There is no Wealth but Life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.'
Since joining the English Department at Manchester Met in 2019-20, I have taught on Approaches to English/Approaches to Texts (L3), Metropolis (L4) and NIneteenth Century to Modernism (L5) as well as supervising L6 Projects.
I have taught on a wide range of units/modules, including period (English 1590-1625; Romanticism; Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century), survey (The English Canon; Literature and Society; The Novel) and specialist (Creating Childhood: Children's Literature; Special Author Study: Ruskin; Representation, Narrative and Perception). In 2011-12, I was shortlisted for a MMUnion Teaching Award: Best Feedback.
PhD
'Bertha Hindshaw (1881-1955) and the Horsfall Museum Collection' (PT from Oct 2021)
‘Space and Liminality in Mungo Park’ (GTA, PT 2016-22)
'What does eco-poetry look like when you can’t get out of bed?: The mentally ill body in feminist radical landscape poetry' (from October 2015)
'John Ruskin and the designed landscape at Brantwood' (Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship 2016-2019)
'Ruskinian Utopias: a Route to Sustainable Futures' (Faculty-Funded Scholarship from September 2016-2019)
‘‘Making Rochdale: creative-critical responses to the literary geographies of place’ (Faculty-Funded Scholarship 2014-19)
MA by Research
‘Cause and Effect: Neo-Victorianism, Digital Cultures and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries’ (PT from October 2014; completed)
‘Rhetoric and Myth in Milton and Pullman’ (from April 2014; completed)
‘Locating Lost Masculinities in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale’ (from October 2013; completed)
‘Windows of Alienation on Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (from September 2013; completed)
'Logic and Religion in Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher : Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism' (from September 2011; completed)
'The Rural-Urban Bind in Thomas Hardy's Regional Novels' (from September 2011; completed)
External Examiner for the University of Liverpool's MA in Victorian Studies (2016-2020).
There are two interlinked strands to my current research interests: sustainable prosperity and textiles, as envisaged by the work of John Ruskin during the Nineteenth Century and as reinterpreted for the twenty-first century.
I am interested in the ways Ruskin repeatedly turned to textiles as the 'simplest example which we can all understand' of political economy, using 'the acicular [needle-shaped] art of nations' as a model for society. He argued that the world should function like a well-constructed textile: woven to last, with the strong supporting the weak, and with beauty naturally entailed in all. To that end, he identified the need to finance a green economy, protecting nature while facilitating economic growth; he stressed the importance of the local and regional, while encouraging his followers to learn from global models; he was passionate about the need for a holistic education, which would nurture the individual person and thus society as a whole; he was very much concerned with questions of how to be equitable and facilitate prosperity for all. Like Ruskin, who didn't see any barriers between writing about art and writing about social change, I too look across traditional disciplinary boundaries to find common patterns and structures which might fruitfully combine with other, interdisciplinary perspectives to help frame new transdisciplinary models which address pressing concerns for our world and its future.
R. Dickinson (2013). Of Ruskin, women and power. K. Hanley, B. Maidment. In: Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect. Ashagte, pp.53-65.
RMW. Dickinson (2009). Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture. A. Heinrich, K. Newey, J. Richards. In: Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture. Palgrave MacMillan,
R. Dickinson (2009). John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. Legenda: MHRA and Maney.
R. Dickinson (2009). John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. Legenda: MHRA and Maney.
R. Dickinson (2009). John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn Sense and Nonsense Letters. MHRA.
R. Dickinson (2011). Victorians in the Mountains: Sinking the Sublime. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW. 106,
R. Dickinson, E. Sdegno (2010). Introduction: Nineteenth Century Travel and Cultural Education. NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTEXTS-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL. 32(1), pp.1-4.
K. Hanley, R. Dickinson (2009). Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travel. Prose Studies. 31(2), pp.89-92.
R. Dickinson (2008). Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theatre, Science and Education. JOURNAL OF VICTORIAN CULTURE. 13(1), pp.152-157.
R. Dickinson (2008). Ruskin and Social Reform: Ethics and Economics in the Victorian Age. JOURNAL OF VICTORIAN CULTURE. 13(1), pp.152-157.
RMW. Dickinson (2018). ‘To Teach Them How to Dress’: Ruskin, Clothing and Lessons in Society'. V. Purton. In: John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education. London: Anthem Nineteenth-Century,
R. Dickinson (2013). Of Ruskin, women and power. K. Hanley, B. Maidment. In: Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect. Ashagte, pp.53-65.
RMW. Dickinson (2009). Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture. A. Heinrich, K. Newey, J. Richards. In: Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture. Palgrave MacMillan,
R. Dickinson (2009). Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture. A. Heinrich, K. Newey, J. Richards. In: Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp.58-73.
Invited Public Lectures
2019 on Ruskin and Arts and Crafts at 'John Ruskin: Nineteenth-Century Visionary, Twenty-first Century Inspriation', Huntington Library, California, 13-14 December.
2019 on Ruskin and Textiles, the 2019 Mary Frith Lecture, Sheffield, 11 May.
2018 'Ruskinian Long Draw: Thinking Fast and Slow', a 30-minute response to Sarah Casey's " ‘Ruskin’s Good Looking’: Drawing, Looking and Seeing", a Ruskin Seminar at Lancaster Univrsity's Ruskin Centre for Culture, Landcape and Environment, 25 October. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/ruskin/Completeseminarlist2018.pdf
2018 ‘’Why Ruskin Land?: Ruskin and Oak’ a 30-minute lecture to architects at Studio in the Woods Ruskin Land, Bewdley UK, 5-8 July
2018 'Ruskin, Carpaccio and St Ursula' a 30-minute paper at 'Ruskin and Venice', a symposium presented by the Guild of St George and hosted by the Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia on March 22. The symposium is linked the 'John Ruskin: Le Pietre de Venizia' exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice (10 March -10 June 2018). http://palazzoducale.visitmuve.it/it/mostre/mostre-in-corso/mostra-ruskin/2018/02/18893/convegno-john-ruskin-venezia/
2016 'Wool' a 15-minute contribution to 'The Materials of Craftsmanship' panel at 'Craftsmanship To-Day: A Symposium on Modern Making' at The Art Workers' Guild, London, September 24. Organised by Marcus Waithe (Magdalene, Cambridge) and Jenny Robbins for the Guild of St George. http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk/calendar/57/96-Ruskin-and-Craftsmanship/
2016 the Whitelands Ruskin Lecture 'Ruskin and Dress', a 45-minute lecture at Whitelands College, University of Roehampton, May 13. http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk/whitelands-ruskin-lecture/
2016 the BSFA Lecture 2016: 'Crafting the Future: Ruskin, Textiles and Visions of Futures Past', a 50-minute lecture at Mancunicon, the 2016 Eastercon. 26 March http://www.bsfa.co.uk/tag/bsfa-lecture/
2016 'Be Inspired by Ruskin: Craftsmanship and Cloth’ a 45-minute ‘Lunchtime Talk’ at the Sheffield Millennium Galleries to accompany the exhibition In the Making: Ruskin, Creativity and Craftsmanship 29 February. http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/whats-on/events/2016/2/lunchtime-talk-–-inspired-by-ruskin-craftsmanship-and-cloth1
2014 ‘From PhD to Principal Lecturer: My Career Path’, the invited alumnus presenter at Lancaster University’s Postgraduate Research Conference, 22 March.
2013 'A Personal Journey into Textiles with Ruskin' a 20-minute talk at the AGM of the Guild of St. George, Sheffield, 16 November
2012 'John Ruskin and the Ethics of Cloth: What does your choice of clothing say?' at the MMU Centenary Festival of Ideas, 11 September
2012 'John Ruskin and Cloth' a public lecture to the Lancs and Lakes Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, Yealand Conyers, 11 February
2002 'Brantwood and the Domestic in John Ruskin's Correspondence to Joan Severn'a one-hour lecture to The Friends of Ruskin's Brantwood, Coniston, 20 April
Invited Conference Papers
2017 ‘Ruskin, Morris, Textiles and Craftsmanship’ at “ ‘The spirit of touch’: Ruskin, Morris, and Craftsmanship Today”, one day symposium at the University of Toronto and part of the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 3 June
2015 'Ruskin, Textiles and Gender' at 'Ruskin Today', an interdisciplinary one-day conference held at Anglia Ruskin University in honour of their patron and name-sake, 11 April.
2015 ' "The view from my rocks": Ruskin, mountain journeys and crafting a home' a 45-minute lecture at ‘Travellers' Views - the Lake District and Beyond in the Nineteenth Century’ Lancaster University’s Centre for Northwest Regional Studies, 7 February.
2014 ‘Refined in Feature and Beautiful in Dress: Ruskin and Cloth', a one-hour Conference Lecture at The Roycroft Conference ‘Ruskin, Morris and Hubbard: The Arts and Crafts of the Word’, East Aurora New York, 2-5 October.
2013 "'The Nobleness of Dress': Ruskin and Ideal Clothing in the Late Nineteenth Century", a one-hour paper at "Dress: Art and Industry", the first in a series of AHRC-funded workshops called 'Tailored Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities, 1880-1939" at the University of Exeter, 11 July. http://tailoredtrades.exeter.ac.uk/events/workshop1/dickinson/
2008 ' "How the Fairies teach silkworms to spin": Ruskinian Textile Production' at 'Heritage and the Victorians: Culture, History, Society', St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 26-28 June.
2006 'Ruskinian Moral Authority and Pantomime's Ideal Woman' at 'The Victorian Theatre and the Visual Arts', Lancaster University, 13-15 July.
2002 'Embracing Tiger and Returning to Mountain: Reflections on Learning and Teaching' at Tall Tales (HE teaching practice conference), Lancaster University, 4 July.
2001 'John Ruskin's Letters to Joan Severn' at St. Deiniol's Victorian Studies Colloquium, Hawarden, 2-4 March.
Invited Workshops
2015 ‘Ruskinian Spinning: The Beauty of Found Objects’, a full-day workshop with the Skelwith Spinners & Weavers on 12 March.
2012 a full-day workshop with the Skelwith Bridge Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers, discussing Ruskin and ethical textile production as well as helping members of the practitioner group to improve their skills at fancy spinning with a focus on recycled and natural insertions, 27 September
Select Conference Papers (through application rather than invitation)
2016 " ‘The glorious advent of tea-time’: Consuming Tea in Victorian Nurseries and Fairy Tales [in Carroll, Ruskin, C. Rossetti and Lord Brabourne]" at 'Consuming (the) Victorians', BAVS Annual Conference, Cardiff University, 31 August - 2 September.
2016 ‘John Ruskin and “the acicular art of nations” ‘ in the “The finer threads: lace-making, knitting and embroidering in literature and the visual arts from the Victorian age to the present day” seminar (co-convened with Laurence Rousillon-Constanty [Université De Pau]) at ESSE Galway 2016, 22-26 August.
2015 'In a Time that is full of deadly realities': Empires Past and Present, 1850-51 [in Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold and Barrett Browning]' at Victorian Age(s), BAVS Annual Conference, Leeds Trinity University, 27-29 August.
2014 'Ruskinian Sustainability: A Model for the Twenty-first Century' at 'Victorian Sustainability', BAVS Annual Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 4-6 September.
2014 ' "The eternal harmony of warp and woof': Ruskin, Weaving and Social Harmony" at Textures, University of St. Andrews, 5 April 2014.
2013 'John Ruskin and National Dress' at 'The Global and the Local', the inaugural joint NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA International Conference, San Servolo, Venice, 3-7 June.
2012 'Ruskin and Sartorial Ethics' at 'Victorian Values: Ethics, Economics. Aesthetics', BAVS Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, 31 August to 2 September.
2011 'Recycling Ruskin' at 'Composition and Decomposition' BAVS Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, 1-3 September.
2007 'Making Sense of Nonsense: Editing Ruskin's Baby-talk' at 'Editing the Victorians', The Centre for Textual Scholarship, DeMontfort University, Leicester, 28 September.
2007 'Mapping Ruskin's Travels' at 'Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel', The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, 19-23 July.
2005 ' "So Much Power with the Public": Pantomime's Ideal Woman in Ruskin's Construction of Moral Authority' at 'Victorian Life Writing: Sources and Resources', Lancaster University, 21-23 July.
2002 'Solidifying the Self: The Mnemonic in Ruskin's Correspondence to Joan Severn' at 'Yours Sincerely?: Letter Writing as an Auto/Biographical Genre', University of Manchester, 20 September.
2016 'The Finer Threads: lace-making, knitting and embroidering in literature and the visual arts from the Victorian age to the present day' a seminar panel, convened with Dr Laurence Rousillon-Constanty of Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, at ESSE 2016, Galway 22-26 August
2016 'Working Towards a Sustainable World: Inspired by Ruskin', a full-day roundtable at No. 70 Oxford St, Manchester. Featuring speakers who, inspired by Ruskin, are making a difference as they work to build a sustainable society. 25 June. Co-sponsored by Manchester Met's Humanities in Public and the Guild of St George. http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/hip/world/working-towards-a-sustainable-world-inspired-by-ruskin/
2008 'Ruskin, Venice, and 19th Century Cultural Travel' at Venice International University and Scuola di San Rocco, Venice. Co-organised with Prof. Keith Hanley, Dr. Emma Sdegno and Miss Lauren Proctor. Co-sponsored by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of the University of Ca' Foscari Venice. 25-27 September.
2008 'Persistent Ruskin - Aesthetics, Education, Social Theory, 1870-1914' at Lancaster University. Co-organised with Prof. Brian Maidment. Co-sponsored by the AHRC, Lancaster University's Ruskin Centre and the University of Salford. 18-19 July.
2007 'Disseminating Ruskin' at Lancaster University Co-organised with Prof. Brian Maidment. Co-sponsored by the AHRC, Lancaster University's Ruskin Centre and the University of Salford. 6-7 July.
2006 'Ruskin and the Idea of Influence' at the University of Salford. Co-organised with Prof. Brian Maidment. Co-sponsored by the AHRC, Lancaster University's Ruskin Centre and the University of Salford. 13 May.
2005 'Victorian Life Writing: Sources and Resources' at Lancaster University. Assisted Prof. Keith Hanley and Lindsey (Walker) King. 21-23 July.
2001 'Victorian Performances' at Lancaster University. Co-organised with Dr Kate Newey (now Professor at the University of Exeter). Co-sponsored by the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) and Lancaster University. 6-8 September.
As an Editorial Board Member of The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies, The Journal of Victorian Culture, and The Ruskin Review and Bulletin, I serve as an Expert Reviewer. I have also reviewed submissions to other academic journals and publishers such as Medical Humanities, Victorian Studies, Blackwells and Peter Lang.
I was a judge of the John Ruskin Prize for Art in 2017 and in 2019, administered by The Big Draw. http://www.ruskinprize.co.uk/selection-panel-2017/
I was a Short-Listing Judge (one of 2) for 2016 The Novella Award. The Long-Listing was done by a panel of librarians and the winner was chosen by Lucy English. thenovellaaward.com.
2021 through the AHRC CapCo Public Engagement Awards scheme awarded £27,925 for ‘Celebrations: Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards’ (P-I, with Co-Is Dr Emma Liggins and Stephanie Boydell)
I secured over £45K for the Festival of Ruskin in Manchester 2019:
• £10,000 from Guild of St George to Manchester Metropolitan University as match-funding for HSSRCheshire internal allocation of £10,000 from the Cheshire Faculty to support The Festival of Ruskin in Manchester [awarded November 2018]. In addition
• I also successfully bid for/championed an additional £10,000 from the Guild of St George to go directly to two Ruskin in Manchester partners:
o £5,000 to 42nd Street as match-funding for a successful ACE, application [awarded July 2018]
o £5,000 to The Big Draw to support the John Ruskin Prize 2019 (which at my instigation was held at Manchester School of Art’s Holden) [confirmed July 2018]
As the Co-ordinator of Ruskin in Manchester and Director for Education of Ruskin’s Guild of St George, I offered consultation on and wrote a letter of support for Elizabeth Gaskell’s House/Manchester Historic Buildings Trust’s successful National Lottery Heritage Fund: North West application for a £9,700 project as part of Ruskin in Manchester: ‘Sharing Ruskin’s Legacy in Manchester at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House’ [awarded February 2019
2017 Academic Lead on a ACE-funded MUPI networking group: 'In at the Beginning: Nineteenth Century Collections'. The museums lead, Kate Newnham at Bristol Museums, with partners across 6 institutions.
2009 A subvention grant from the MHRA to fund the cost of publishing part of my PhD as a monograph: John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and ‘Nonsense Letters’
2001-2003 Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (full-funding for 2 years of my PhD)
1999-2002 Overseas Research Studentship from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (partial funding for my PhD)
1994-1995 Special University Scholarship from the University of Western Ontario (full funding for my MA)
2019 curating 'Ruskinian's Manchester: from "Devil's Darkness" to Beacon City', an exhibition at Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections in celebration of John Ruskin's bicentenary (April-August).
2013 curated ' "Teaching Silkworms to Spin": John Ruskin and the Ethics of Textiles', an exhibition at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, (May - September).
https://ruskinlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/teaching-silkworms-to-spin-ruskin-and-textiles/
2009 Filmed talking about Ruskin and art for a video to accompany Museums Sheffield's 'Can Art Save Us?' exhibition (filmed 5 October; exhibition ran 22 October 2009 to 31 January 2010).
2008 co-curated 'Ruskin's Continental Tours', an exhibition with Keith Hanley at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University (19 April - 28 September). http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/ruskinlib/Pages/continental.html
Selection Panel Member of the John Ruskin Prize for Art, 2017 www.ruskinprize.co.uk
Chair of the Oversight Committee of 'Ruskin in the Wyre: Sharing, celebrating and enhancing John Ruskin's legacy in the Wyre forest', an £85,000, two-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Guild of St George, delivered by the Guild and the Wyre Community Land Trust from April 2017.
A Director (with the portfolio for Education) of the Guild of St George, the charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy, founded by John Ruskin in the 1870s. http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk
2016 book review of Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District, by Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson for the Times Higher Education, 12 May https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-green-victorians-vicky-albritton-fredrik-albritton-jonsson-university-of-chicago-press
2014 Ruskin specialist for a 30-minute live discussion on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Culture Show, discussing Ruskin in general and specifically the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Exhibition ‘John Ruskin: Artist and Observer’ hosted by Janice Forsyth, the other contributor was the dance critic Kelly Apter (8 July),
2014 Academic specialist on an episode of BBC Radio Scotland’s Women With a Past series. The focus was on Ruskin’s wife Effie and changing notions of marriage. Hosted by Susan Morrison and produced by Louise Yeoman. Impact: Yeoman contacted me after reading my book chapter ‘Of Ruskin, Women and Power’. Taped on location in Scotland 9-10 February and aired on 15 April. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0403swf
2008 Interviewed about John Ruskin, Sheffield and utopian movements on BBC Radio 4's Making History (recorded 11 November, aired 25 November). http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/making_history_20081125.shtml
In 2019 I was elected the first female Master of the Guild of St George, the charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy established by John Ruskin in the 1870s. I had served as Director for Education from 2014. http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk/
In January 2022, I was invited to join the AHRC's Peer Review College.
In February 2019, I was a Professeur Invite at the University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour where co-taught on an MA with host Prof Laurence Rousillon-Constanty and fellow Invited Professor, Prof George Landow (Brown).
I on the Editorial Board The Journal of Victorian Culture,
Previously, I have servved on the Boards of The Ruskin Review and Bulletin, The Eighth Lamp: Ruskin Studies Today and the John Ruskin Digital Archive component of The Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium.