I completed my PhD at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, in 2017, and was appointed in the Department of English at King’s in the same year. I hold a BA from the University of East Anglia, an MA from University College London, and worked in London for several years before returning to academia.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

My first book, Behind Our Backs, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in February 2026.

I welcome PhD proposals aligned in any way with late twentieth and early twenty-first century poetry and poetics.

Selected publications

• “Recasting Dialectics: Hannah Black’s Deep Cuts,” in “Lyric and Containment,” eds. Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 36.2 (September 2025, forthcoming)
• “Poems We Live With: The Victorious Ones.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 50 (Autumn 2024).
• “Manly Things,” On Bernadette Mayer, eds. Kristin Grogan and David Hobbs, Post45 Contemporaries, 27 July 2021.
• “Against Objectivism: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen,” Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism, eds. W. Scott Howard and Broc Rossell (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2018).
• Toward. Some. Air.: Remarks on Poetics. Co-edited with Fred Wah (Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre Press, 2015).

Teaching

I teach a wide range of contemporary literature, media, literary criticism and theory at postgraduate and undergraduate level. I regularly teach two other graduate modules, ‘Thinking the Contemporary: Literature and Theory After Postmodernism’, and ‘Post-45: Literature, Culture, Theory’. I also sometimes convene our MA in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory.

Expertise and Public Engagement

I have long been an active member of poetry communities in the UK, US and Canada, and I recently published a new collection, Not a Force of Nature (New York: Futurepoem, 2024). My poems have been published in chapbooks and magazines, widely anthologized, and translated into Spanish and Catalan. With the Canadian poet laureate Fred Wah, I edited a poetics anthology, Toward. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press, 2015).

In recent years I have organised public-facing symposia on topics including social reproduction and poetry’s relation to labour practices, and I have given invited public talks at universities, women’s centres and arts organisations in the UK, US, Canada, France and The Netherlands.