In September 2009 I delivered a conference paper at the David Mitchell conference organised by Dr Sarah Dillon and sponsored by the arts and humanities publisher Gylphi. The conference was an incredible experience and launched a series of conferences dedicated to living writers, in which the...

In 2010-2011 I was Module Convenor for the second-year core undergraduate module "Contemporary Literatures in a Global Context" at the University of Surrey. The module explored the way in which English literature is constructed within a global context, asking what it...

In 2010-2011 I taught on the core first-year undergraduate module "Genres and Contemporary Writing" at the University of Surrey.   Thumbnail image by Luis García under a CC BY-SA license.

As part of my interest in sharing academic scholarship with a broader audience beyond the university, I’ve published 2 shorter versions of author interviews with David Mitchell and Jon McGregor in the New Statesman. During the course of my research I’ve become fascinated with the...

In the summer of 2010 a good friend and remarkable poet, Éireann Lorsung, organised a seven-month project and poetry exchange "I am an American Poet: This is American Poetry" in Nottingham. I was fortunate enough to be able to interview two of the visiting poets, Zachary...