Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Victorian Literature, Culture and Politics (including the 1890s)
- Literature and Science
- Literature and Ethics
- Periodical Culture
- Nineteenth-Century Fantasy, including Science Fiction and Fairy Tale
Public outreach & key achievements
- ‘The Science of Victorian Ghosts’, Belfast Science Festival 2018
- Interviewed by Marina Warner for Radio 4 series) on Grimm's Fairy Tales, and by by Art review, BBC Radio Ulster
- ‘Science and Faith at War in Victorian Belfast: Remembering John Tyndall's Belfast Address (1874)’. Organiser of a public
event at the Ulster Hall with talks by Professor David Livingstone and Professor John Wilson Foster. Covered by UTV. - Advisor on Guardian and Chronicle of Higher Education articles on fairy tales.
Research students
| PhD Title | Memory and Dystopian Fiction |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PhD Title | The Maverick Modernist & Magazines: Collaborative Networks, Readers & the Question of Elites |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PhD Title | Zero (novel) Selective Mutism in Young Adult Fiction (critical component) |
| Country | USA |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Olive Schreiner and Print Culture |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current Position | Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of St Andrews |
| PhD Title | Girlhood and Victorian Periodicals |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Current Position | Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Aberystwyth |