Publications

Books

William Barnes Dialect Poems in the Dorset County Chronicle, ed. with T. L. Burton (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).

Nineteenth Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Nineteenth Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates, ed. with Jonathan Herapath (Routledge, 2016).

Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2015).

On Human Flourishing: A Poetry Anthology, ed. with D. J. Moores, Susan Wolfson, Adam Potkay, James Pawelski and James Engell (McFarland, 2015).

Elizabeth Jennings: The Collected Poems, ed. (Carcanet Press, 2012).

The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011), ed. with Michael Lieb, Christopher Rowland, and Jonathan Roberts.

The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Blackwell, 2009), ed. with Christopher Rowland, Jonathan Roberts, and Rebecca Lemon.

Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature, with Mark Knight (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool University Press, 2006).

Special journal issues

'Environmental Humanities and English Literary Studies: Facing the Crisis of the Imagination', with Shaul Bassi, Textus: English Studies in Italy, XXXIV. 3 (September-December, 2021).

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, with Neil Badmington and Tina Lupton (Oxford University Press), vols 25-29, 2017-2021.

Peter Larkin: Poetry, Phenomenology, Theology, special issue of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 12. 1 (2020).

'Nineteenth Century Poetry and Forgiveness', Literature Compass, 11.2 (2014)

'Languages of Emotion', Textual Practice, 22.1 (2008), with Isobel Armstrong.

'Tractarian Poetry and Poetics', Victorian Poetry, 44:1 (2006), with Kirstie Blair.

Book chapters

'The Quiet Life', The Oxford Handbook of William Cowper, ed. Jess Fay and Andrew Hodgson (Oxford University Press, 2027).

'Girl Jesus: Redemption and faith in Ray McKinnon's Rectify', The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Film, ed. Gerard Loughlin (Oxford University Press, 2027).

'Ecology', The Cambridge Companion to Religion in Victorian Literary Culture, ed. Mark Knight (Cambridge University Press, 2027).

'Contemplation and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism', Inventing the Secular, ed. Erik Tonning (Brill, 2026).

'Christian Experience', Dorothy Wordsworth in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

'Second and silent springs: Creation and Ecology in Newman's Novels', John Henry Newman the Educator: Formation, Philosophy, Legacy, ed. Fr. Juan R. Vélez (Gracewing, 2025).

'Religion', The Cambridge Companion to John Clare, ed. Sarah Houghton-Walker (Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 183-195.

'Weakness and Wildness in Wordsworth's "The Brothers"', in Markus Poetzsch and Cassandra Falke, ed., Wild Romanticism (Routledge, 2021), pp. 15-27; also selected for inclusion in Routledge Historical Resources: Romanticism.

'Poetry', in Timothy Larsen, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (Oxford University Press, 2020).

'Praying kin: Christina Rossetti and the Unity of Things', in Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak, Rebecca Spence, ed., Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 (Palgrave, 2020).

'Considering the Lilies: Christina Rossetti's ecological Jesus', in Elizabeth Ludlow, ed., The Figure of Christ in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2020).

‘"Whales and all that move in the waters": Christina Rossetti’s ecology of grace’, in Wendy Parkins, ed., Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2018), 69-84.

‘Devotional Poetry,’ in Jack Lynch, ed., The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry 1660-1800 (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 563-578.

‘Religion, the Bible and Literature in the Victorian Age,’ Juliet John, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 331-349.

'Wes Anderson's Messianic Elegies,' in Mark Knight, ed., The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion (Routledge, 2016), pp. 227-236.

'Emotion, feeling, affect', in Jonathan Herapath et al, ed., Nineteenth Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (Routledge Criticism and Debates Series, 2016), pp. 245-255.

‘Ecology with religion: kinship in John Clare’, in Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathron, New Essays on John Clare: Poetics, Culture and Community (Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 97-117.

‘“ears of my ears”: cummings’ Buddhist prosody’, with Erin Lafford in Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch, ed., Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2013).

'Falling from trees: arborescent prosody in John Clare’s tree elegies', with Erin Lafford in Donald J. Moores, ed., Human Flourishing in Literary Studies: The Positive Turn (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012).

‘The Victorians and Bunyan’s Legacy,’ in Anne Dunan-Page, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 150-161.

‘Elihu's Spiritual Sensation: William Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job,’ in Michael Lieb et al, ed., The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 460-475.

‘Saving Literary Criticism,’ with Mark Knight, in Louise Lee and Mark Knight, ed., Religion, Literature and the Imagination (Continuum, 2009), 150-161.

‘Sensibility into Sense: Barbauld, Hemans and Religious Commitment,’ in Jo Carruthers, ed., Spiritual Identities, Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination (Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 79-96.

‘Poetry and Religion,’ in Christine Gerrard, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Blackwell, 2006), pp. 53-68.

‘Love’s the burning boy: Hemans’ critical legacy,’ in Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley, ed., The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature (Wayne State University Press, 2006), pp. 205-224.

‘“The Clue to the Brontës?”: Understanding Religion in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights,’ in Mark Knight and Thomas Woodman, ed., Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 69-78.

‘“Her Silence Speaks”: Keble’s Female Heirs,’ in Kirstie Blair, ed., John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004), pp. 125-142.

‘“A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival”: Christina Rossetti, Ritual Ceremony and Christ Church, London,’ in David Clifford and Lauren Roussillon, ed., Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now (Anthem, 2003), pp. 115-130.

Journal articles

'"Abîme inconnus": Raïssa Maritain's poetic and mystical gifts',New Blackfriars, 107. 2 (2026).

'Religion, language, nation: William Barnes' Christianity', Victorian Studies, 66. 2 (Winter, 2024), 240–254.

'Reading Christian Experience', Modern Language Quarterly, 83. 4 (2022), 521–537.

'Tree Being in Peter Larkin's "Skies in Flight of Tree"', Études Anglaises: revue de monde anglophone, 74. 1 (2021), 68–81.

'"How do you not be sad?" Sadness and Communication in BoJack Horseman', Post45, ed. Jack Belloli and Pamela Thurschwell (2020).

'Rossetti's Weak Apocalypse', The Ruskin Review, 14. 2 (2020), 86–99.

'Entanglement in fir: thinking matter in Peter Larkin’s “praying // firs \\ attenuate”, in Religions, 9. 1 (2018).

‘Thinking with plants: ecological logos and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, The Coleridge Bulletin, 47 (Summer 2016), 73-85.

‘Punctive grace: reading religion in Barthes’ Mourning Diary’, Textual Practice, 30.2 (2016), 327-343; republished in, Neil Badmington, ed., Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes (Routledge, 2017).

'"All green things": Christina Rossetti's Franciscan ecology', Studium, 4 (2016), pp. 530-557.

'Reading "Howl": Peaceful Dissent at Warwick University', Lacuna Magazine, March 9, 2016.

‘The Unremarkable Wordsworth’, in ‘About Geoffrey Hartman’, special issue of Philological Quarterly, 93. 2 (2014).

'Wordsworth's Intuition', La questione Romantica, special issue on William Wordsworth, 3.2 (2011) [Spring 2014], 47-62.

'Ecopoetics', La questione Romantica, special issue on William Wordsworth, 3.2 (2011) [Spring 2014], 175-181.

'Exploring forgiveness in nineteenth-century poetry', Literature Compass, 11.2 (2014), 61-73.

‘Grace and metrical movement’: Coleridge and Wordsworth on grace', The Coleridge Bulletin, 41 (2013), 29-45.

‘Hear my Voice: Rhythmic Forgiveness and Psalm 130’, Victorian Review, 37.2 (2012).

‘Felicia Hemans’ Sonnets on Female Characters of Scripture,’ with Jon Roberts, in Andrew Tate, ed., Yearbook of English Studies: Literature and Religion (MHRA, 2009), 72-83.

'Reciprocal Scansion in Wordsworth's "There was a boy"', with Rhian Williams, Literature Compass, 6.2 (2009), 515-523.

'Feeling: an indefinite dull region of the spirit?' with Isobel Armstrong, 'Languages of Emotion,' Textual Practice, 22.1 (2008), 1-19.

‘Dogs, Detectives and the Famous Sherlock Holmes,’ International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11.3 (2008), 289-300.

‘Feeling Dickensian Feeling,’ 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 4 (2007), 1-19; reprinted in Short Story Criticism: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Gale/Cengage, 2022).

‘The trouble with comfort: Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin and leafy emotion,’ Yearbook of English Studies: Victorian Literature, 36:2 (2006), 169-179.

‘Introduction: Tractarian Poets,’ Victorian Poetry, 44:1 (2006), 1-6.

‘Sydney Dobell and "The Church,”’ Victorian Poetry, 42:4 (2004), 537-552.

‘“Some very good natured friends”: Frederick Locker’s Scott Manuscript,’ The Huntington Library Quarterly, 67:4 (2004), 623-631.

‘“Some god of wild enthusiast’s dreams”: Methodist Enthusiasm and the Poetry of Emily Brontë,’ Victorian Literature and Culture, 31:1 (2003), 263-277.

‘Christina Rossetti and the Doctrine of Reserve,’ Journal of Victorian Culture, 7:2 (2002), 196-219.

‘Emily Brontë and the Enthusiastic Tradition,’ Romanticism on the Net, 25 (February, 2002).