I welcome proposals on contemporary fiction (British and American); literature and theology; Douglas Coupland; nineteenth-century religion.

Undergraduate: American Literature to 1900; American Literature from 1900; From Decadence to Modernism, 1890-1945

Postgraduate: Romance and Realism: the Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Research interests: literature and theology; postmodern fiction, theory and spirituality; Douglas Coupland; John Irving; John Updike; the New Atheism; nineteenth-century religious writing, particularly with reference to Evangelicalism; John Ruskin.

Current projects: I am writing a monograph on biblical narrative in twenty-first century cu

lture. Forthcoming articles include pieces on Charles Causley; John Ruskin; J G Ballard.

BA, MA, PhD, Lancaster

I Convened MA Programmes in English (English Literary Studies and pathways in Contemporary Literary Studies; Literary and Cultural Studies; Romantic and Victorian Literature; Early Modern Studies) from 2007-2012

Undergraduate: Convenor of American Literature to 1900; Contemporary Literature (from 2013)

Undergraduate Teaching: Lecture contributions to From Decadence to Modernism, 1890-1945; American Literature to 1900; Victorian Literature; American Literature from 1900; The Theory and Practice of Criticism; Contemporary Literature

Specialist final year courses: Literature and the Visual Arts; Twenty-First Century Fiction

Postgraduate Teaching: Contemporary American Fiction; Ruskin and Religion; The Brantwood Module: Understanding and Interpreting Ruskin's Experimental Landscape

Current and recent doctoral students have worked on Nostalgia, Douglas Coupland and J G Ballard; the Harlem Renaissance; the figure of the graduate in contemporary narrative; nineteenth-century Transatlantic fiction; American Gothic; Ruskin and Aesthetics

I am interested in supervising research on Douglas Coupland; Ruskin; nineteenth-century religious thought and its relationship with literature; contemporary fiction and spirituality.