Research & Publications

Books

• The Associative Imagination
  Edited with Dr Louis Klee. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature series. Oxford University Press. (Under contract)
• Writing Eccentricity: Character and Form, Johnson to Dickens
  First draft of manuscript complete. (In progress)

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

• 2026
  'Clare's Byronic Impersonation'

  In Poetic Allusion in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. James Williams and Jane Wright. Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)
• 2026
  'Habit'

  In The Oxford Handbook of Romantic Poetry, ed. Andrew Hodgson and Matthew Scott. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)
• 2026
  'Character'

  In The Oxford Handbook to Jane Austen, ed. Freya Johnston and John Mullan. Oxford University Press.
• 2026
  'Writing and Embodiment'

  New Formations. (Under consideration)
• 2026
  'Dreaming Lydia Davis'

  In Lydia Davis, ed. Lola Boorman and Julie Tanner. University of Edinburgh Press.
• 2025
  '"The set is now broken": Sibling Influence in the work of Charles Lamb and William Wordsworth'

  Textual Practice, 39.3, 1458–1477
• 2022
  'Habit, Romanticism, and the Literary Imagination'

  Co-written with Hannah Tran. The Cambridge Quarterly, 51.3, 188–206
• 2021
  'Charles Lamb's Imperfect Solitudes'

  Romanticism, 28.3, 233–245
• 2020
  '"Antic Dispositions": Lear and Dickens'

  Victorian Poetry, 58.2, 29–43

Reviews & Interviews

• 2025
  Review of Matthew Ward, Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling

  Studies in Romanticism
• 2023
  '"Our Elia": Lamb and The London Magazine'

  The London Magazine
• 2020
  'The Eccentricity of Lydia Davis's Essays'

  The London Magazine
• 2020
  'Writing Hunger': an interview with Emma Donoghue

  The London Magazine
• 2020
  'Defying Gravity': review of Josh Cohen, Not Working: Why We Have to Stop

  The London Magazine

Work in Progress

• 'The scale of close reading in Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and The Return of the Native (1878)'

  In progress
• 'Introduction' to The Associative Imagination

  Co-written with Louis Klee. Oxford University Press. Contracted
• 'The Writer's Body'

  In Symptoms of Writing, ed. Devorah Baum and Siddharth Soni. Bloomsbury Academic. Under consideration
• 'Liking Isherwood'

  Co-written with Conrad Steel. In preparation