Biography

I took my first degree in English & American Literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury and then completed my Ph.D at Birkbeck College, University of London.  I have taught at Exeter University, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Northampton University and Lancaster University.  I joined English & American Studies at the University of Manchester in 2006.

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I welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in undertaking research on any aspect of early Victorian literature and culture, Chartist and radical literature, as well as working-class literature and culture more generally.