University of Hertfordshire

Faculty Member, English Literature

Principal Lecturer

About

I gained my undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford, before going on to gain an MA in Anglo-American Literary Relations and a PhD from University College, London. I have worked at the University of Hertfordshire since 2003.

My research interests lie principally in print culture of the early United States, and in writing about the American West, with a growing interest in ecocritism. I teach courses on American Literature to 1900, Native American Literature, Transatlantic Literature, and Western American writing.

My doctoral thesis explored the representation of the frontier and of Native Americans in early American literature. My current research explores representations of the body in the early republic and antebellum America; fictions of familicide in the early US; and the New Orleans pirate Jean Lafitte. Inquiries are welcome from graduate students and researchers interested in colonial, early national, and nineteenth-century American literature; literary and cinematic representations of the American West (and American regionalism more broadly); travel writing; environmentalism and literature; and popular fiction. I have also published on British and American cinema.

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