Biography

I am an Associate Professor teaching medieval literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. My primary research interest is the literature of medieval England. My first book "Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature" was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.The Gates Cambridge Trust funded my MPhil (2008) and PhD (2011) at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Reading, I spent four years working at the University of Oxford as Fitzjames Research Fellow in Old and Middle English at Merton College.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge PhD Medieval Literature 2011
University of Cambridge MPhil Medieval and Renaissance Literature 2008
University College Dublin BA English 2007