School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

I recently joined the English department at Portsmouth, having previously taught at De Montfort University where I completed my PhD.

My research centres on modernism and British interwar literature and culture, and has focused to date on the writings of Virginia Woolf.  My forthcoming book, Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism (Continuum, expected 2013), fuses feminist-historicist analysis with genetic criticism to explore Woolf’s development as a cultural commentator through the textual histories of her late works. 

I am also interested in the relationship between modernism and the literary marketplace and have published articles on Woolf’s interactions with the Daily Worker and Good Housekeeping.  My next project will survey representations of modernism, modernity and nationhood in British women’s magazines of the interwar period.

Publications:

Monograph:

• Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism: The Genesis of The Years, Three Guineas and Between the Acts.  Historicizing Modernism Series, Continuum, forthcoming 2013.

Journal Articles:

• ‘Made to Measure: Virginia Woolf in Good Housekeeping Magazine.’  Prose Studies: Literary, Theory, Criticism 32: 1 (2010): pp. 12-24.
• ‘Chaos.  Slaughter.  War Surrounding Our Island: Virginia Woolf and the Daily Worker.’  Virginia Woolf Miscellany 76 (2009): pp. 18-19.
• ‘Common Readers and Critics: Virginia Woolf in Conversation.’  Virginia Woolf Bulletin 32 (2009): pp. 25-30.
• ‘A New Mimesis: Approaches to Representation in the Poetry of the New York School.’ Literature Compass 3: 3 (2006) [electronic journal]; available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00317.x/pdf

Book Chapters:

• ‘Modernism and the Middlebrow in British Women’s Magazines, 1916-1930.’  In The Popular Imagination and the Dawn of Modernism: British Middlebrow Writing 1880-1930, Vol. 1, edited by Christoph Ehland.  Intended for publication by Pickering & Chatto in 2013/14.
• ‘Virginia Woolf’s “Two Women,” or, “The Wrong Way of Reading”.’  In Woolf as Reader/ Woolf as Critic or, The Art of Reading in the Present, edited by Catherine Bernard.  Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2011: pp. 51-60.

Selected Conference Papers and Invited Talks:

• ‘Vision and Revision: The Textual Genesis of Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past.”’  Northern Modernism Seminar, De Montfort University, 11 May 2012. Invited speaker.
• ‘Resisting Gendered Cultural Boundaries: Women Writers in Interwar British Women’s Magazines.’  Women in Magazines Conference, Kingston University, 22 June 2012.
• ‘Two Works, “One Book”?: The Shared Genesis of The Years and Three Guineas.’  Virginia Woolf Seminar, Jesus College, University of Oxford, 21 February 2011. Invited speaker.
•  ‘Clearing the Air: Virginia Woolf’s Clashes with Feminism.’  Contradictory Woolf: The 21^st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Glasgow, 9 June 2011.
•  ‘“The King’s Dead!”: Woolf on Women in “1910”.’  The Inaugural Conference of the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies and The British Association for Modernist Studies, University of Glasgow, 11 December 2010.
• ‘Virginia Woolf and Good Housekeeping Magazine.’  Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf: The 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Denver, 20 June 2008.