Published poet. Published academic. Performer of spoken Word. Organiser of LTU open mic Wordspace. 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 MA.  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); 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 volume of essays, Victorian Cultures of Liminality and Text and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century, both with Cambridge Scholars); orientalism in children's books; Rumi and connections with English Metaphysical Poets. 

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.