BIO

The first book I remember trying to read was The Canterbury Tales. The first book I remember loving was Lord of the Rings.

Books single-handedly changed everything about my life. They drove me to pursue my PhD in literature and inspired a love of culture and adventure that has taken me to over 30 countries.

Every new life experience is the seed from which a new story might spring and each encounter can lead to discovery.

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Publications:

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‘“That Other Life”: Poetic Exploration of Responses to the Experience of War and Home in First World War Poetry,’ Romanticism and After (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017).

‘Menacing Meals: The Danger of Memories of Food and Home in World War One Literature’, HARTS & Minds: The Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2/1, (2014).

Review of Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 by Alexander Dick (Ashley Somogyi, British Society of Literature and Science, 2015).