I joined Edge Hill University in April 2009, and have overall responsibility for the Department of English & History, which includes Creative Writing and Film Studies sections, as well as a programme in Chinese Studies. We are a diverse and highly research-active department, and committed to the research-underpinning of all our curricula. I am a specialist in Romanticism, especially poetry and drama of the later Romantics, including Beddoes, Clare, Darley, Hood, Keats, Landon and Shelley. At undergraduate level, I’ve taught most periods and genres of literature at one time or another, but have tended to concentrate on pre-1900 poetry and drama. I particularly enjoy teaching Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare studies. I also run the option 'Cultures of Anatomy' on our interdisciplinary Humanities MA programme. I would be interested to discuss research degree proposals in any aspect of Romanticism – not necessarily limited to my favourite themes and authors listed above.