Teaching & Experiential Learning
Bader College is a great place to study English Literature because it offers students the chance to engage directly with some of the places within which some great English works were first imagined. You don’t have to be studying in a castle to appreciate the literature of the Middle Ages, of course, or to be studying close to a great literary city like London to read about it, but sometimes it’s a rare opportunity to be able to do so!
My favourite Experiential Learning moments are when a visit to a particular location or event suddenly gives students a new way of thinking about a text or a greater appreciation of what the author was trying to do in writing it. I value those moments when our reading can become ‘real’ for us. For me, teaching at the Castle is all about introducing students to the ideas and work of a range of writers and helping them to develop their own responses as they become more confident in the discipline of studying English Literature.
Research
I am active researcher in the fields of 20th century art and literature, with a particular interest in the intersection of art and politics in the years around the two World Wars.
Supervision
I can supervise projects on:
- English Literature and Culture in the 20th and 21st centuries
- European Culture between the World Wars
- Russian Literature (in translation) of the 19th and 20th centuries
- The cultural legacies of Ancient Greece and Rome
I have contacts at:
- Pushkin House in London http://www.pushkinhouse.org/
- The Weiner Library in London https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
I have researched in:
- The British Library, London: https://www.bl.uk/subjects
Research & Publications
- I am the author of the 2012 book English Journeys: National and Cultural Identity in the 1930s and 1940s
- My recent publications include a chapter on Travel Writing before and after World War 2 in the 2018 Edinburgh University Press essay collection Rural Modernities.
- and an essay on English nostalgia in Carey Fleiner and Dene October’s 2017 book Doctor Who and History
- I am a regular contributor to the Journal of Russian Art & Culture
- and often contribute to the Blog for Pushkin House, the Russian Cultural Centre in London