Research

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 the Arts; 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; and the in-progress Oxford Handbook of Modern Catholic Women's Writing with Linden Bicket, Rebekah Lamb, Bonnie Lander Johnson, and Julia Meszaros.

At Warwick, I work with several graduate students, and a postdoctoral colleague, Nataliya Pratsovyta (Ukraine Fellowship). Internationally, I am an active member of the Christian Poetics Initiative, Rivendell Centre, Yale; and the international agora, The Power of the Word Project.

Editorial Boards

• Literature and Theology
• Literature and Belief
• John Clare Society Journal