Key Skills
Romantic Poetry Byron & Shelley Ecocriticism Environmental Humanities Arboreal Imagery 19th-Century Literature
Research Experience
Teaching and Research Fellow
  • Preparing the doctoral thesis as a monograph with Liverpool University Press.
  • Ongoing research on Byron's arboreal imagery and Percy Shelley's water imagery and poetical shorescapes.
  • Teaching an undergraduate module on Byron and Shelley; postgraduate module on birds in Romantic poetry.
Research Assistant
  • Supported the four-volume collection Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780–1914 (Routledge, 2025).
  • Edited and proofread manuscripts, introductions, source descriptions, editorial headnotes, front matter, acknowledgments, indexes and references.
Research Assistant
  • Formatted and prepared book reviews in Romanticism for the BARS Review.
  • Assisted with publication of one standard issue and one double issue; edited and formatted twenty-five reviews in total.
Publications

Published

'And Grew a Giant Tree; – the Mind May Grow the Same': The Rooting, Growth, and Transplantation of Byron's Exilic Identity
Byron Journal  53.1  ·  2025
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Book Review: Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations & Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies  48.2  ·  2025
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Women's Fashion: The Deceit in Dress
Gissing Journal  LIV, 4  ·  2020
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Forthcoming

'Like These Blasted Pines' and Hardy Firs: Byron's Resilient Exilic IdentityUnder Contract
Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740–1840  ·  Liverpool University Press  ·  eds. Davis & Burton
Byron and Shelley, Human Potentiality, and the Poetics of the OceanUnder Contract
Shelley and Collaboration: Posterity, Intertextuality and Affect  ·  Legenda Press

Under Review

'As If the Earth and Sea Had Been Dissolved in a Lake of Fire': The Illusory Venetian Shoreline in Julian and Maddalo
Essays in Romanticism
'In the Valley of Waters': Byron's Willow, Liminality, and Ambient Poetics
In Preparation
Reconfiguring Mind and World: The Ecological Imagination in the Poetics of Byron and Shelley, 1816–1820Monograph
Liverpool University Press  ·  Proposed monograph based on doctoral thesis
Education
PhD, English Literature

'Unapprehended Relations of Things': Remapping Mind and World in the Poetics of Nature in Byron and Shelley, 1816–1820

Supervisors: Professor Mark Sandy & Dr Emily Rohrbach
Examiners: Professor Jonathon Shears & Dr James Robinson

MA (Hons) Romantic and Victorian Literary Studies

Dissertation: 'This Plant Resembles Me!': The Revolutionary Potential of the Botanical Landscape in the Works of Charlotte Smith.

BA (Hons) English Literature
Grants & Funding
  • British Association for Romantic Studies International Conference Travel Bursary 2026
  • Byron Society PhD Bursary 2023–24
  • Byron Society PhD Bursary 2022–23
  • North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Travel Bursary 2022
  • St Cuthbert's Society Post Graduate Research Grant 2022
Conference Papers
'And From the Waves, Sound Like Delight Broke Forth': The Poetics of the Ocean and Human Potentiality in Shelley's Julian and Maddalo
The Shelley Conference  ·  London  ·  2024
'Wild Reality': Visionary Madness, Melancholy, and Ecology in Byron's Darkness
North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies  ·  Durham  ·  2023
'A Noble Wreck': Venice, Seascapes, Seasons and the Environment in Byron and Shelley
BARS / NASSR New Romanticisms Joint Conference  ·  Liverpool  ·  2022
'The Weight of Earth Recoils Upon Us; – Let It Go!': The Role of the Natural World in Byron and Shelley's Posterity
Romantic Reputations Symposium  ·  Online  ·  2021
Invited Talks
Byron's Arboreal Imagination
Byron Society  ·  Online  ·  2024
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
  • Planned, prepared, and led tutorials on the undergraduate module 'Introduction to Poetry'.
  • Taught poetry from the early modern period to the contemporary.
Additional Experience
Postgraduate Helper, The Shelley Conference
  • Assisted with preparation and on-the-day running of this multi-day conference.
  • Authored the conference overview for the BARS Blog: 'The Shelley Conference 2024: Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations – Conference Report.'
Referees
Professor Mark Sandy
English Department  ·  Durham University
Professor Jonathon Shears
English Department  ·  Keele University