I'm broadly interested in how Christianity, especially mysticism, is figured and experienced in verse. I’m also also interested in the interrelationship between religion and ecology and its potential illumination by more-than-human (plant and animal) forms of consciousness. At Warwick, I'm a member of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature; and founded CoRAL Comparative Religions and Literatures in 2012.

My book Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press), for which I received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, was published in 2018. Current projects include a study of mysticism at the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries; volume III of the Oxford University Press Complete Works of William Barnes; Weird Faith in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Theologies at Work, with Mark Knight for Bloomsbury; and a collection of essays on the 1810s for Cambridge University Press.

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