Teaching

University teaching

Since 2016 I have taught on a variety of modules at the University of Sheffield at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and focusing on a range of time periods and mediums from theatre to film, poetry and prose, classical and biblical works, Romantic and Gothic traditions, and eighteenth century works to modern and contemporary authors. I have also supervised several MA dissertations examining the Gothic, postmodernism and feminism.

The modules I have taught on are:

Dissertation (MA; dissertation supervisor), 2024.

Invention of Romanticism (second year), 2024.

The Novella and the Uncanny (second year), 2023.

Romantic Gothic (MA), 2023.

Romanticism to Modernism (second year), 2023.

Studying Theatre (first year), 2022 and 2023.

Classical and Biblical Literary Foundations (first year), 2020 [online due to the COVID 19 pandemic].

Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature (second year), 2018 and 2020.

Studying Prose (first year), 2016 and 2018.

Online courses with the Rosenbach Museum

In 2022, I was honoured to be asked by the Rosenbach Museum (Philadelphia, USA) to design and co-lead an online course with my collaborator and fellow Ghoul Guide, Dr Lauren Nixon. We created a 4-week online course on the early Gothic titled Gothic Awakenings. This course explored the eighteenth century origins of the Gothic and its initial developments in the early nineteenth century, focusing on Gothic novels by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis and Charlotte Dacre.

The next year, we were asked to lead another course. This time, over 6 weeks our online course Gothic Transformations: Monsters and Mad Scientists focused on the continuing evolution of the Gothic in the nineteenth century, exploring works by Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G. Wells.

School Workshops

I have designed and lead several workshops about the Gothic for GCSE, A-Level, and secondary school students. Most recently, in January 2015 I lead a day of workshops for year 7 students. This workshop, Gothic 101: Mysteries and Monsters, explored the origins and traditional conventions of the Gothic, as well as how these conventions compare to the conventions of detective stories. At the end of the sessions, students were asked to build on what they had learned to create their own Gothic mystery story.