TEACHING
Current:
Director: Contemporary Literature and Culture MA
Co-director: Medical Humanities MA
Convenor: Being Human (MA)
Teaching awards
2023: Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
2021: Winner: Best Dissertation/Project Supervisor for Birkbeck Heroes (Birkbeck Students' Union)
Foundation and BA
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FOUNDATION: Former director for the BA Arts and Humanities Foundation Year (Level 3-6). Foundation year study enables students to progress from level 3 to level 4 successfully. Apply here for Arts and Humanities Foundation Year.
- BA. I teach modern and contemporary literature and also guest lecture across departments including English, Creative Writing and Humanities
Taught modules
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Lost in the Funhouse: American Fiction After 1960
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Fiction 1945-79
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The Novel
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Transnational literature
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21st Century Fiction
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Philosophical Themes in Science Fiction
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Romance
MA
I mainly teach modern and contemporary literature, theory, cultural history, medical humanities
Taught modules
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2023 -Medical Humanities
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2023 - Creative Non Fiction
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2018- ‘Being Human’
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2015- ‘Reading the Contemporary’
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2015- 2017- ‘Narrating Nation After 9/11’
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2015-2017- ‘Key Concepts 2
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2015-2017 ‘Post War to the Contemporary’
Director
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Since 2015, I have been the Programme Director for the MA Contemporary Literature and Culture.
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Co-designer of MA Creative and Critical Writing (2018)
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Co-director: Medical Humanities
PHD
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I lecture on the PhD Critical Theory module, and I also teach a workshop for the departmental Teaching in Higher Education programme for PhD students.
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I am a PhD supervisor and am currently interviewing new students. Most recent PhD completion: Siddharth Yadak 2023
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Click here for more information on supervision
Other Teaching
As a qualified teacher of over ten years, I have a background in teaching English pre further education. I currently do (very limited) outreach work in local schools. I also do workshops for staff - mainly on technology for teaching and learning.
Contact me for full teaching history.
Qualifications: Certificate of Governance (2010), QTS (GTP) 2008, PGCHE (2017), Fellow HEA (2017).