I am an early career researcher whose work investigates the intersection of Romantic literature, art, psychology, and philosophy. I focus on Romanticist ideas of the human and conceptions of imagination, creativity, and genius, exploring how these ideas impact upon contemporary literary studies, art, and what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

My doctorate thesis studies the trope of the daimon in William Blake's Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion as an allegory for Blake’s humanism. I show how Blake’s daimon provides a methodology for understanding and developing our own humanity through literature.

I have presented my research both nationally and internationally at a range of academic conferences, as well as to public audiences at local council venues. As an early career academic, I value excellence in research, teaching, and leadership as a way of service to the academic and wider community.

Research interests:

• English Romanticism
• German Romanticism
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-German Romantic culture and thought
• Cognitive poetics
• William Blake
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Johann Wilhelm von Goethe
• Johann Georg Hamann
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Psychology and literature
• Language, poetry, mythology, mythopoesis
• Imagination, genius, creativity, the daimon
• Deep history, archeo-psychology, embodied imagination
• Narratology and characterisation
• Contemporary literary theory, practice, pedagogy, and criticism
• The Humanities - past, present, and future
• New literary humanism
• Art history
• Human potential
• Literature and wisdom