Academic Staff

• Head of Languages and General Studies Unit
• Member of the Academic Council
• Member of the Teaching Committee

Research Interests:

• Word/Image Relations & Ekphrasis
• Cognitive Approaches to Literature
• Religion & Literature
• Film & Literature
• Literary Theory
• 19th Century Literature & Culture

Representative Publications:

1. “Jude the Obscure: The (En)Graven Image”, The Thomas Hardy Journal, 22 (Autumn, 2006), 85-105.
2.  “Violent Wisdom: Thomas Hardy and Ekphrastic Discord”, Word & Image: A Journal of Visual/Verbal Enquiry, 27.2 (2011), 148-158.
3.  “Biblical Exegesis in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge”, Literature & Theology, 26.2 (2012), 1-20.