Publications

Books
- A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell (Oneworld, forthcoming June 2025)
- Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 (Palgrave, 2012)
- Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)

Edited Books
- (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025)
- (ed.), A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935), by George Orwell, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- (co-ed. with Jonathan Greenberg), Brave New World: Contexts and Legacies (Palgrave, 2016)
- (co-ed. with Andrzej Gąsiorek), Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
- (co-ed. with Kate Macdonald), John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (Pickering & Chatto, 2013)
- (co-ed. with Alice Reeve-Tucker), Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2013)
- (co-ed. with Andrzej Gąsiorek, Alice Reeve-Tucker), Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (Ashgate, 2011)

Journal Editing
- (guest ed.), George Orwell Studies, Special Issue: ‘Orwell in Context’, 8.1 (Autumn 2023)
- (co-ed. with Rebecca Fisher), English Association Newsletter, issue on ‘The Value of English’, 234 (Autumn 2023)
- (co-ed. with David James), Modernist Cultures, Special Issue: ‘Musicality and Modernist Form’, 8.1 (Spring 2013)
- (co-ed. with colleagues including Andrzej Gąsiorek, Anna Burrells, Louise Kane, Michael Shallcross, and Zoe Gosling), The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies (2010-2018), 9 vols

Articles and Chapters
- ‘George Orwell: Politics and Power’, in Rachel Potter and Matthew Taunton (eds), The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 259-73
- ‘“A sinking sensation”: George Orwell and the RMS Titanic’, George Orwell Studies, 8.2 (2024), pp. 33-54
- ‘Elements are VERY GLIB: Challenging the Convenience of Metaphor in the Critical Reception of BLAST’, The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies, 11 (2023), pp. 67-73
- ‘How Peter lives on at Birmingham University’ [tribute to Professor Peter Davison, 1926-2022], George Orwell Studies, 7.2 (2023), pp. 30-32
- ‘Textual Count Dracula’, emagazine: The Magazine for Advanced Level English, 97 (September 2022), pp. 59-63
- ‘Literary Beethovens: Convention, Difference, and Cultural Memory’, in Peter Dayan, Rachael Durkin, Axel Englund, and Katharina Clausius (eds), The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (Routledge, 2022), pp. 348-58
- ‘The Continuing Relevance of Modernism’, University of Birmingham ‘Perspectives’ Series (March 2022)
- ‘Oceania’s Dirt: Filth, Nausea, and Disgust in Airstrip One’, in Nathan Waddell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 168-80
- ‘Modernist Narration’, emagazine: The Magazine for Advanced Level English, 86 (December 2019), pp. 32-4
- ‘Dystopia’, in Lucy Webster (ed.), The Literature Handbook, Key Thinkers on Key Topics Series (English and Media Centre, 2019), pp. 127-34
- ‘Ford, Family, and Music’, in Laura Colombino, Sara Haslam, and Seamus O’Malley (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (Routledge, 2019), pp. 79-93
- ‘H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds and the Crimson Map of Empire’, emagazine: The Magazine for Advanced Level English, 80 (April 2018), pp. 20-22
- ‘BLAST (1914-15)’, in Stephen Ross (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (Routledge, 2017), online
- ‘Modernism and Music: A Review of Recent Scholarship’, Modernist Cultures, 12.2 (Spring 2017), pp. 316-30
- ‘Lawrence Atkinson, Sculpture, and Vorticist Multimediality’, Modernism/modernity Print Plus, 1.3 (September 2016), online
- ‘Lewis and Fascism’, in Tyrus Miller (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 87-99
- ‘Signs of the T: Aldous Huxley, High Art, and American Technocracy’, in Jonathan Greenberg and Nathan Waddell (eds), ‘Brave New World’: Contexts and Legacies (Palgrave, 2016), pp. 31-49
- ‘Lewis and Politics’, in Andrzej Gąsiorek and Nathan Waddell (eds), Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), pp. 128-42
- ‘Bohemian Retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, Post-War Memory, and the Cabaret Theatre Club’, in Kate McLoughlin (ed.), The Modernist Party (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), pp. 192-209
- ‘Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight: An Unacknowledged Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent?’, Adaptation, 6.1 (February 2013), pp. 43-59
- ‘Wyndham Lewis’s “Very Bad Thing”: Jazz, Inter-War Culture, and The Apes of God’, Modernist Cultures, 8.1 (Spring 2013), pp. 61-81
- ‘Providing Ridicule: Wyndham Lewis and Satire in the Postwar-to-end-war World’, in Alice Reeve-Tucker and Nathan Waddell (eds), Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2013), pp. 56-73
- ‘John Buchan’s Amicable Anti-Modernism’, The Journal of Modern Literature, 35.2 (Winter 2012), pp. 64-82
- ‘Technocracy and the Fordian Arts: America, The American Mercury, and Music in the 1930s’, in Sara Haslam and Seamus O’Malley (eds), Ford Madox Ford and America, International Ford Madox Ford Studies, Vol. 11 (Rodopi, 2012), pp. 167-80
- ‘John Buchan: Homilies and Recreations (1926)’, Literary Encyclopedia (2011), online
- and Alice Reeve-Tucker, ‘Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, and Inter-War British Youth: Conflict and Infantilism’, in Andrzej Gąsiorek, Alice Reeve-Tucker, and Nathan Waddell (eds), Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 163-82
- ‘J. G. Ballard: High-Rise (1975)’, Literary Encyclopedia (2010), online
- ‘Modernist Coteries and Communities’, in Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gąsiorek, Deborah Longworth, and Andrew Thacker (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 740-6
- ‘Buchan and the Pacifists’, in Kate Macdonald (ed.), Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ (Pickering & Chatto, 2009), pp. 91-101
- ‘Ford Madox Ford: The Simple Life Limited (1911)’, Literary Encyclopedia (2009), online
- ‘Pathology in John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps’, The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, 1.2 (2008), pp. 4-11

Forthcoming
- ‘Excursions into Hostile Territory: Wyndham Lewis and Music’, in Leon Betsworth and Robyn Jakeman (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to Wyndham Lewis and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2026)
- ‘Orwell and Death’, in Richard Lance Keeble and Timothy Crook (eds), The Routledge Companion to George Orwell (Routledge, forthcoming 2025)
- ‘Packaging Orwell: Sequences and Centrifuges’, in Patricia Rae (ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Writings of George Orwell (Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2025)
- with Elizabeth Cook, ‘Orwell and John Milton’, in Nathan Waddell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025)