Overview
I joined the Continuing and Professional Education team in 2015 to teach modules in crime fiction and maritime fiction.
I am also an Associate Lecturer at the Open University in Wales, where I teach ‘The Arts Past and Present’.
Biography
I gained my PhD at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, submitting a thesis entitled ‘In the Wake of Conrad: Ships and Sailors in Early Twentieth-Century Maritime Fiction’.
Published articles include ‘The Changing Portrayal of Pirates in Children’s Literature’ for The New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship (2011) and a book review of Margaret Cohen’s The Novel and the Sea in Comparative Literature (2013).
Teaching
I have taught four modules in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy and am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
My research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century travel and adventure narratives. In July 2016 I gave a paper exploring the symbolism of the sea in three of Virginia Woolf’s novels at Swansea University’s ‘Women at Sea’ conference.