Published poet. Published academic. Performer of spoken Word. Conceived and manage Wordspace since 2014: Wordspace is a public performance platform and hub, with guest speakers, open mic, international reach, publications, social media and networking. Co-Director of Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, design and teaching of UG and MA modules.  Programme Leader for English and Creative Writing BA.  Two poetry collections published and numerous poems in journals and anthologies.  Edited scholarly volumes. Publications on Renaissance literature, Victorian literature, and on Creative Writing.  

Creative Writing (author of two poetry collections, Seasons of Myth, Indigo Dreams Press 2016 and The Ordinariness of Parrots, Stairwell Books 2015); spoken word and performance with music; myth (co-edited a volume of essays); ekphrasis; George Gascoigne; Petrarch; Victorian literature, especially gothic, horror, and fairy tale (co-edited two volumes of essays, Victorian Cultures of Liminality (Cambridge Scholars 2018) and Classic and Contemporary Mythic Identities (Edwin Mellen Press 2009), and sole editor for another Text and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Scholars 2023, paperback 2024); orientalism in children's books; Rumi and connections with English Metaphysical Poets.

Series Editor for Victorian Re-Visions, anthologies of poetry responding to Victorian writers, a collaboration between the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and English & Creative Writing at LTU. 

Co-Director of Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies.

Leading role in programme design. 

Module leader and/or lecturer for:

Level 4:   Writing and Expression. Literary Genres. Storytelling and World-Building (Games BA). 

Level 5: Medieval to Modern Literature  

Level 6: Dissertation supervisor

MA:       Reading as a Writer (Creative Writing MA).

PhD:      Currently supervising five Phds in Creative Writing and in the Victorian Period.   

 Previously designer, module leader, and/or module lecturer for:

Shakespeare and Shakespearean Drama; Literature of Enchantment; Roots of Stories; Shakespeare; The Seventeenth Century; Writing, Performance and Persuasion; Love, Body and Soul (Renaissance poetry Level 6 option); Words on the Stage; and others.