On Tuesday 8th July 2014, I'll be doing a Tweet Chat Q&A for the UK academic jobs website jobs.ac.uk – from 12.45pm GMT for one hour. The discussion will be taking place on the dedicated #jobsQ hashtag, which brings together postgraduate students and early career...

As Director of Birkbeck's MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture, I've been teaching the programme's first core module on "Reading the Contemporary" since 2013. This course introduces students to a range of contemporary literary, cinematic, visual and theoretical...

In Spring 2014, I convened the second half of Birkbeck's undergraduate core module, "Writing London," which is taught in the first year of the BA English degree. The module is team-taught by several of Birkbeck's academic staff and is designed...

I've been convening Birkbeck's core undergraduate module "The Novel" since 2013, which is taught in the second year of the BA English degree. My lectures on this module included The Rise of the Novel, Epic and the Novel, Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism, The...

Since joining Birkbeck, University of London as Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature in 2013, I've been teaching the MA optional module "Time for Revolution: Reading Time in the 20th Century", which is available to students on the MA Contemporary Literature and...