After a degree at Birmingham, and a D.Phil at Oxford, I took up a lectureship at Trinity College Dublin, where my research on Joyce was assisted by the National Library of Ireland's collections. I moved to Durham in 2006 and have expanded my field of research into twentieth-century literary culture more generally, with particular interests in the interpretative problems that arise from historicist accounts of modernism.

James Joyce, Irish Literature and Culture, Modernist Studies, Critical Theory, Edwardian Literature and Culture