The focus of my teaching is medieval literature and language and I contribute to all the undergraduate and postgraduate medieval courses offered in the Department. The English Department at UCL is rightly proud of its reputation for teaching English literature from its starting-point to all students, and for offering in addition a substantial number of optional courses in early periods. In teaching Old English, I encourage students to see this subject as an integral part of their study of literature more generally: to recognise that the linguistic skills they acquire are often beneficial in their study of other literary periods, that the theoretical approaches applicable to modern periods of literature (gender studies, for example) are valid for Old English as well, that their knowledge of modern poetry (for example Seamus Heaney, W.H. Auden, Geoffrey Hill, and Ezra Pound) can be enhanced by their study of Old English as well as of more modern literature. I regularly organise trips for students to UCL's Special Collections where they have the opportunity to study medieval manuscripts.

I am the convenor for the course Old English Literature II, which is currently taught around a series of topics which allow the literature of the period to be explored in terms of its generic and thematic preoccupations as well as its historical context. I also help to convene the First-year Introduction to Old English course and am co-convenor for the MA course Anglo-Saxon Court Culture.