I am interested in British and Irish literature from the Romantic period to the present, with a particular emphasis on poetry. My forthcoming monograph, Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, looks at Romantic legacies in contemporary eco-poetry and feminist poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Other publications include articles on new nature writing, Romantic concepts of childhood and ecocriticism in animated films. More recently I have turned to late Victorian heirs of the Romantics, focusing on the intersections of literature and material culture. I am developing a research project on textile objects in fin-de-siècle writing.
I teach on the first-year module Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies, the second-year Survey Course: Irish Literature and Survey Course: British Literature – Romanticism to New English Literatures and the third-year and Master’s modules Advanced Literary and Cultural Studies and Advanced English Studies. I have taught advanced courses on, for example, “Contemporary British Nature Writing”, “Romanticism and Childhood”, “The Brontë Sisters”, “Aestheticism and Decadence: Literature and Visual Culture” and “Victorian Gothic”.
"Precision Instruments for Dreaming: Anatomizing Keats in Pauline Stainer's The Wound-Dresser's Dream." Romanticism 22.2 (2016): 230-241.
Book Chapters
"Wild Verse: The Art of Nature in the Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall." The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works and One-Hit Wonders. Ed. Norbert Lennartz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 75-92.
"Umweltmärchen in Pixar-Welten: Ecocriticism und Naturdarstellungen bei Findet Nemo und WALL-E." Moderne Märchen: Populäre Variationen in jugendkulturellen Literatur- und Medienformaten der Gegenwart. Ed. Maren Conrad. Königshausen & Neumann, 2020. 101-125.
"Contesting and Continuing the Romantic Lyric: Eavan Boland and Kathleen Jamie." Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre, Ed. David Kerler und Timo Müller. De Gruyter, 2019. 31-46.
Reviews
Review of Peter Stäuber, Sackgasse Brexit: Reportagen aus einem gespaltenen Land (Rotpunktverlag, 2018), Journal for the Study of British Cultures 26.1 (2019): 109-112.
Review of Jessica Nowoczien, Drama in the Classroom: Dramenarbeit im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I im Hinblick auf Gendersensibilisierung und interkulturelle Kommunikation (Peter Lang, 2012), Scenario 7.1 (2013).
Conference Papers and Invited Talks
“The Poetry of Mutability: Temporality and Change in Wordsworth, Shelley and Shapcott." Late Romanticism: Past and Present (University of Leuven, Belgium, December 2019).
“A Feverish Restlessness: Decadence, Disease and Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry.” Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, October 2019).
"Ecocriticism in Pixar-Welten: Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit bei Findet Nemo und WALL-E." (invited lecture, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, April 2018).
"Wild Verse: Reading Nature in the Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall." The Lost Romantics (Universität Vechta, May 2017).
"Eavan Bolands Dublin: Die Stadt als Ort romantischer Aktualisierung und Kritik in der irischen Gegenwartslyrik." Romantische Urbanität: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, November 2016).
"Out of Myth into History: Contesting and Continuing Romanticism in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Poetry." Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre (Universität Augsburg, October 2015).
"The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie." Centre for Poetry and Poetics Forum(Durham University, April 2015).
"Dreaming the Wound-Dresser's Dream: Keats's Post-Romantic Legacies in Contemporary British Poetry." John Keats and his Circle (Keats House, Hampstead, London, May 2014).
"Ecocriticism, Post-Romanticism and the Predicament of Contemporary Environmental Poetry." Romantic Heirs: Receptions, Legacies, Dialogues Since 1900 (University of Sheffield, January 2014).
"Constructions of Romanticism in Paul Farley's and Michael Symmons Roberts's Edgelands." Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place (Institute of English Studies, London, May 2013).
"Romanticism and Negotiations of Femininity and Subjectivity in Contemporary Women's Poetry." The F Word in Contemporary Women's Writing (Queens University, Belfast, April 2013).
"Romantic Genius in Distress? Representations of British and German Romantic Poets in Film." Department of German Research Seminar (University College Cork, February 2012).
