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- Senior Lecturer
- Dept of English Lang & Literature
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
I did my BA and MA in English and German Literature at the University of Auckland, and my PhD in Cambridge. After a research fellowship in Trinity Hall, Cambridge, I taught at the University of York from 1995 until 2002, the year I began lecturing in the English department at UCL.
Most of my research has explored connections between literature and sexuality from the late nineteenth century onwards. Particular interests include Henry James - my first book was Henry James and Sexuality (Cambridge University Press, 1998), D. H. Lawrence, queer theory and the history of literary representations of homosexuality.
I have recently completed a chapter on lesbian and gay fiction since 1970 for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature, edited by Ellen McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen. As a result of this work, and work I did for the Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing, which I edited and was published in 2011, I am currently planning more articles on gay and lesbian fiction since 1940. In addition, I am continuning to publish extensively on D. H. Lawrence: an article on Lawrence and Wagner is forthcoming in Textual Practice.
I teach nineteenth- and twentieth-century and contemporary literature, and I also have taught a number of seminars for the English department's course on Literary Representation and the History of Homosexuality. At MA level I have taught seminars on Art History, Film, Opera, a number of authors, and have recently been teaching a popular module on Modernism and Sexuality.
1994 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Cambridge | |
1989 | Master of Arts | University of Auckland | |
1986 | Bachelor of Arts | University of Auckland |