I teach mainly eighteenth-century literature, including the uses of the eighteenth century in cinema. In 2023-4, we will be looking at satire in the long eighteenth-century, studying in particular the following texts:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey.

Byron, Selected Poetry.

Swift, Jonathan. A Tale of a Tub and Other Works.

But I also have a strong interest in postcolonial literatures, and this year we will be looking at the place of sports (Olympic Games obligent) in postcolonial literatures, reading:

Gunesekera, Romesh. The Match.

O’Neill, Joseph. Netherland.

Phillips, Caryl. Foreigners.

In previous years, I developed an interest in the adaptations of eighteenth-century texts to the screen. We looked at theories of adaptation, at discourse on cinema, as well as at transpositions of historical periods. We analysed parallel scenes from films and novels to understand different modes of representation (we are not interested in ideas of the “authentic”…). Further, my masters lectures concentrate on adaptation theory.

For instance, in 2022-3, we studied:

A Cock and Bull Story. Dir. Michael Winterbottom. 2005.

Love & Friendship. Dir. Whit Stillman. 2016.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders. Dir. David Attwood. ITV. 1996.

Together with :

Austen, Jane. Lady Susan.

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders.

Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

 

I also convene a doctoral seminar in literary theory.

Over the years I have taught, and still supervise, on theories of fiction, linguistic analysis of literary discourse, contemporary British fiction and on a variety of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Burney, Conrad to Kureishi, Rushdie to Roy.