What Is Literature?
This is the introductory lecture for my Literary & Cultural Theory module. It introduces students to some of the questions theory can raise in relation to literature and its purpose as well as introducing some basic aspects of liberal humanism, and the module structure.
Making Meaning: Author, Reader, Text
This is the second lecture in our second-year theory core module, and it introduces students to theories on the relationships between authors, readers, texts, and their meaning. Below you can find the the handout for this lecture. Prezi to follow!
Literature & History: New Historicism
This lecture examines theories on the relationship between history and literature, and is intended as an introduction to New Historicism in particular.
Feminist Theory: An Introduction
This is an introductory lecture to feminist theory, featuring a detailed lecture handout and Prezi.
Postmodernism
This is an introductory lecture to postmodernist theory, which forms the last critical lens we examine in this second-year course on literary and culture theory. This post contains both the Prezi and the lecture handout I’ve designed for this session.
Posthumanism
This is an introductory lecture to posthumanism, and the post contains the Prezi I designed as part of my second-year Literary & Cultural Theory module.
Deconstruction
This is an introductory lecture to structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. This post contains a detailed lecture handout as well as the Prezi for the lecture.
Gender & Queer Theory
This lecture introduces students to gender and queer theories and some of their key concepts, including also their relationship to feminist theory and transgender issues.
Theorising Popular Culture
This is a lecture that recaps some of last semester’s theories and consider both how scholars have theorised the role of popular culture in today’s society and how we might analyse different popular culture texts – such as music videos, TV shows, and adverts – through the theories we have studied on this module.
Essay Preparation
This lecture prepares students for the first essay on Literary & Cultural Theory. Next to recapping some basic guidelines (with the help of pet videos), it also tries to explain some of the new challenges students might face when writing an essay which incorporates theory.
[Publication] Women & Belief, 1852-1928 (A Routledge Major Works Anthology)
Women and Belief is a six-volume collection of primary materials covering a wide range of opinions about women, their self-identity, and the combination of their spiritual and political beliefs.
[Events & Funding] Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Series
This AHRC-funded Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme (CWWSkills) was a series of six workshops held between August 2013 and July 2014. The programme is designed to enable UK-based postgraduate research students and early-career researchers who work in the field of contemporary women’s writing to develop an entrepreneurial approach to their research.
[Events] Neo-Victorian Cultures: The Victorians Today
24-26 July 2013, Liverpool John Moores University
Social Media: Developing Your Research Profile & Engaging Digitally
Workshop, 18/06/2013 “Transforming Postgraduate Research”, C21 Scholar, University of Oxford
A Queer & Dangerous Presence: The Widow in British Literature & Culture, 1900-2000
Keynote, 10/05/2013 “Roles Conference”, PG Gender and Sexuality Research Network, Uni of Birmingham
Roundtable Member: ‘In To Sectionality’ – Gender & Sexuality Studies in the Here & Now
Roundtable, 10/05/2013 “Roles Conference”, PG Gender and Sexuality Research Network, Uni of Birmingham