Curriculum Vitae

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. I began my career at Birmingham (2008-2012), before moving for five years to the School of English at the University of Nottingham. I returned to Birmingham in 2017.

Qualifications
- BA, MPhil, PhD, PGCHE, FHEA

Employment
- 2017-present, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
- 2013-2017, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
- 2012-2013, University Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
- 2010-2012, Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
- 2008-2010, Teaching Assistant, University of Birmingham

Appointments
- 2024-present, Treasurer, British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
- 2023-2026, Visiting Research Fellow, Northumbria University
- 2023-present, Executive Steering Committee, British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
- 2022-present, Higher Education Committee, English Association
- 2021-present, External Examiner (MA in Modern Literature & Culture), King’s College London
- 2020-2022, External Examiner (BA in English Literature), University of Reading

Administrative Positions
- 2023-present, Taught Admissions and Recruitment Lead (School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies, University of Birmingham)
- 2017-2023, Co-Director, Centre for Modernist Cultures (School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies, University of Birmingham)
- 2016-2017, Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research (School of English, University of Nottingham)
- 2013-2016, Director of Teaching and Learning (School of English, University of Nottingham)

Event Management
- co-organizer with Matt Clulee (University of Birmingham), Filibusters in Birmingham: A Conference on Wyndham Lewis, University of Birmingham (June 2023)
- co-organizer with Chris Mourant and Matt Clulee (both University of Birmingham), Critical Orwell, an online conference, University of Birmingham (April 2022)
- organizer, Benign Fiesta: Wyndham Lewis’s Texts, Contexts, and Aesthetics, University of Nottingham (2017)
- co-organizer with the Northern Modernism Seminar, BLAST 1915-2015: Celebrating the ‘War Number’ of BLAST, University of Nottingham (2015)
- co-organizer with Gemma Moss (Birmingham City University), Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics, University of Nottingham (2015)
- co-organizer with Louise Kane (University of Central Florida), Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, London (2012)
- co-organizer, Corpus Linguistics 2011, International Convention Centre (ICC), Birmingham / University of Birmingham (2011)
- co-organizer with Kate Macdonald (University of Ghent), John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity, Institute of English Studies, London (2010)
- co-organizer with James Barnett and Alice Reeve-Tucker (University of Birmingham), Modernism and Utopia, Birmingham (2010)
- co-organizer with Alice Reeve-Tucker (University of Birmingham), Wyndham Lewis: Modernity and Critique, Birmingham (2008)
- co-organizer with Betty Hagglund (University of Birmingham), Borders and Crossings 5, Birmingham (2004)