I’m a writer and academic, currently living and teaching in London. I studied English Literature at St. John’s College, Cambridge, then did an MA in Renaissance Studies at the University of London under the historian Lisa Jardine. I went to Princeton for my PhD.

My PhD research focused on the connections between literature and politics during the English Civil War. During that time, I also spent five years teaching in New Jersey prisons. I’m now an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University London, where I teach English and Creative Writing.

My current research explores connections between Anglophone literature and politics from the seventeenth century onwards. Alongside my academic work, I also write about contemporary culture. My work has appeared in publications including The Financial Times, The New Statesman, and The Nation (some recent examples here).

My first book, What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost is about the surprising afterlife of John Milton’s epic among readers across the modern age. I’ve also written an introduction for the Vintage Classics edition of Paradise Lost, published to mark the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death. You can find a copy here.

Photo credit: Nikolai Cedraeus.