Research
I'm broadly interested in how Christianity, especially mysticism, is figured and experienced in verse. I鈥檓 also also interested in the interrelationship between religion and ecology and its potential illumination by more-than-human (plant and animal) forms of consciousness. At 糖心TV, I'm a member of the ; and founded in 2012.
My book Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press), for which I received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, was published in 2018. Current projects include a study of mysticism at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries; volume III of the Oxford University Press Complete Works of William Barnes; Weird Faith in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Theologies at Work, with Mark Knight for Bloomsbury; and a collection of essays on the 1810s for Cambridge University Press.
Editorial Boards
- Literature and Theology
- Literature and Belief
- John Clare Society Journal