I am a Lecturer in English and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800), who specialises in British literature and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Experience
–present
Lecturer in English, Flinders University
2014–2014
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Queensland
2011–2013
Lecturer in English Literature, University of Queensland
2009–2010
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Edinburgh
Education
2009
University of Melbourne, PhD / Literary Studies
2002
University of Glasgow, MPhil / Romanticism and Forms of Modernity
1999
University of Melbourne/Monash University, BA (Hons)/BSc
Publications
2014
The Work of Feeling in James Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs (1746), Parergon 31.2
2014
Suicide Notes and Popular Sensibility in the Eighteenth-Century British Press, Eighteenth-Century Studies 47.3
2013
Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition, Ashgate
2011
Piety, Poetry and the Funeral Sermon: Reading Graveyard Poetry in the Eighteenth Century, English Studies 92.2
2011
Refashioning Myth: Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses (co-editor), Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007
Disinterring 'The Grave': Religious authority, poetic autonomy and Robert Blair's fideist poetics, Scottish Studies Review 8.2
Grants and Contracts
2015
No Laughing Matter? Suicide and Comedy in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Role:
AI
Funding Source:
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)
2010
Images of Suicide in the British Long Eighteenth Century
Role:
Sole investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH)
Professional Memberships
Executive Committee - Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA)
British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)