I publish on women's writing in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly on authors whose works employ or manipulate conventions and narrative structures recognisably belonging to the traditions of either the Gothic or the romance novel.

'Women In the Cut of Danger: Female Subjectivity, Unregimented Masculinity and the Pleasure/Danger Symbiosis from the Gothic Romance to the Erotic Thriller', Women: A Cultural Review 23, 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 287-299.

'"I'm scared to death she'll kill me": Devoted Ladies, feminine monstrosity and the (lesbian) Gothic Romance', The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 8 (June 2010) <http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/DevotedLadies.html>.

Entries for Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal (2003) and Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl (2001) in The Literary Encyclopedia (both published in 2010).