I am interested in cultural ways of knowing space, time and the environment, across languages. My current research covers two main areas.

First, I am interested in questions of time and the environment. This emerged from my work on 'Anthropocene Lateness' in the poetry of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker. In 2019, I cofounded the British Academy-funded Anthropocene Times research network with Dr Blake Ewing (University of Nottingham), and ran a small research project on how we use creativity to navigate time in the Anthropocene. In 2023-26, Dr Ewing and I are leading a British Academy Knowledge Frontiers International Interdisciplinary research project on 'Wetland Times', comparing time language and concepts across three global wetland landscapes. 

My previous research focused on English and German-language poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Edwin Morgan and Friederike Mayröcker. My first monograph, Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 (Palgrave, 2018), looked at engagements with place and landscape in the work of a range of writers working in the twentieth-century, at a moment of rapid transformation in thinking about space and spatiality. I argued that writers in these two quite different traditions were working through similar issues of disrupted spatiality and, in so doing, were also radically reimagining the European lyric in ways that only a comparative reading could bring properly into focus.

Together with Jana Maria Weiss and Alexander Kappe, I am a co-editor of the landmark anthology The Opposite of Seduction: New Poetry in German (Shearsman, 2025) - the first major anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in English for more than 40 years, bringing together more than hundred poems by more than sixty poets and translators. This project was awarded an English PEN prize and is supported by the German Translators' Fund.