General

BA (Oxford), MA, PhD (Warwick)

Research interests

British women’s fiction (Victorian to contemporary); feminist literary theory and cultural theory. She is the author of Dreams of Difference: Women and Fantasy (1992) and of numerous of essays on reading and gender. She is currently completing a book on the representation of female friendship and national identity in nineteenth and twentieth-century novels by British women writers.

Selected publications

Dreams of Difference: Women and Fantasy (1992)

Teaching and supervision

Feminist Perspectives on Literature; Modes of Reading

Principal Teaching Fellow

H510; email