- Associate professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Fascinated by the fascination with the Regency as made manifest by wild enthusiasm for Bridgerton, but write about how wrtiers responded to the Regency as a spectacle unfolding before their eyes.
I am currently working on a monograph that examines how literature responded to this extraordinarily distinct but extremely narrow slice of British history.
Experience
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–presentSenior Lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Education
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2006Sheffield Hallam University, PhD English Literature
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