Born: 9 September 1972, Toronto

Citizenship: British

2013       Doctor of Philosophy in English (awarded January 2013), University of Exeter. Thesis title: ‘Arranging the Past, Reconsidering the Present: The Emergence of Alternate History in the Nineteenth Century’

2009       Master of Arts, English Studies (Distinction, with Dean’s commendation), University of Exeter

2004       Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Plymouth

I have recently taught modules on Literature and Screen, Representing Utopia, Literature and the Environment, Introduction to Cultural Theory and Early Modern literature.

in preparation:

The Uses of Imaginary History in Britain, France and America, 1815-1900. Monograph under consideration by Palgrave Macmillan (proposal submitted April 2015)

submitted (forthcoming):

 ‘“All good earthly things are in Utopia also”: Familiarity and Irony in News from Nowhere and A Modern Utopia’. Book chapter in Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space, ed. Emelyne Godfrey (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2015)

published:

‘“A Gleaming and Glorious Star”: Rethinking History in the Plurality-of-Worlds Debate’, Journal of Victorian Culture 18.4 (2013)

Collection of seven delegate papers from the ‘Strange New Today’ conference, with an introduction written by Ben Carver and co-edited by the organising committee, for the Journal of Victorian Culture online: April 2013

reviews:

Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity, and the End of Culture (Simon James, 2012) for Victoriographies 4.1 (2014)

The Spectre of Utopia (Matthew Beaumont, 2012) for Literature & History: 21.2

Another Earth (dir. Mike Cahill, 2011) for the New York Review of Science Fiction: May 2012