Teaching
Postgraduate
PhD level:
Lead supervisor for three PhD projects currently being undertaken at LJMU:
Title: 'A Blast from the Past: The power of nostalgia in constructing concepts of home and belonging in contemporary South Asian Anglophone fiction'. Researcher: Sally Walmsley. Fees funded by award of LJMU bursary.
Title: 'Rivers of Racism: The Literary Afterlives of Enoch Powell’s 1968 “Rivers of Blood” Speech'. Researcher: Ellen Plumbley. Fully funded by award of LJMU VC Scholarship.
PhD by publication. Researcher: Ashleigh Nugent. Fees funded by award of LJMU bursary.
Second supervisor for a fourth PhD project at LJMU (ongoing):
Title: 'Analysing recent returns to androids, cyborgs, clones and science fiction tropes of the posthuman in contemporary British literary fiction’. Researcher: John Corrigan.
Third supervisor for a PhD completed at Middle East Technical University (2015 to 2022). Title: 'Temporal Representation of Familial Transgressions in Daniel Defoe’s Novels'. Researcher: Fahime Serhatti.
Third supervisor for the final year of a PhD completed at LJMU (2022 to 2023). Title: ‘Negotiating Ecocritical Discourse in the Contemporary Science Fiction Narratives of Liu Cixin, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter'. Researcher: Victoria Crozier.
Masters level:
'Mobilities’. MA module, LJMU (ongoing).
MA Dissertations Supervisor, LJMU (ongoing).
Undergraduate
Reader in Contemporary Literature and Culture (previously Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English Literature), Liverpool John Moores University (2016 to present, full time). Teaching:
‘Migrants to the Screen’. Level 6 module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Post-Millennial British Fiction’. Level 6 module.
‘Transitions: Identities in the Interwar Years’. Level 6 module.
‘Terrorism and Modern Literature’. Level 6 module.
‘Dissertation’. Level 6 module.
'Writing Race in Britain'. Level 5 module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Literary and Cultural Theory’. Level 4 module; convened as well as taught.
‘Literature in Context: Britain in the 1950s’. Level 4 module.
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Bilkent University, Ankara (2014 to 2016, full time). Teaching:
‘Post-Colonial Literature’. Fourth-year module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Modern British Fiction II (1950s to present)’. Third-year module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Modern British Fiction I (to the 1950s)'. Third-year module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Research and Writing Techniques for Literary Essays’. Second-year module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘The Short Story’. Second-year module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Appreciation of Literature’. First-year module; designed/convened as well as taught.
‘Critical Reading’. First-year module.
‘Senior Project’. Fourth-year module involving supervision of academic papers as well as creative writing projects (prose fiction and drama).
Supervisor, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (2007 to 2012, part time). Teaching:
‘Postcolonial and Related Literatures’.
Open Dissertations, Parts I and II: postcolonial studies; contemporary British literature; contemporary American literature.
Other Teaching
Higher Education Co-ordinator and A Level English Literature Lecturer, Walworth Academy Sixth Form, London (September 2012 to August 2014, part time). Teaching:
‘Literature post-1900’ (twentieth-century American fiction and drama; contemporary British poetry).
‘Poetry and Prose 1800-1945’ (nineteenth-century American poetry; nineteenth-century British and American fiction).
‘Drama and Poetry pre-1800’ (Shakespeare; seventeenth-century poetry and drama).
‘Texts in Time’ (contemporary British fiction and poetry).
Other responsibilities: responsible for leading all aspects of the sixth form’s Higher Education programme, including: advising students on HE; overseeing all students’ university applications; co-ordinating the sixth form’s provision of references; preparing students for interviews; widening participation in HE (especially in regard to students from non-privileged backgrounds).
Seminar Leader, University of Cambridge/The Sutton Trust (2011, part time). Teaching:
‘Modernism and the Short Story’.
‘Jack Kerouac and the American Dream’.
‘Shakespeare’.
English Tutor, OISE, Cambridge (2008 to 2012) and LTC, London (March 2012 to September 2012), part time. Teaching:
English for academic purposes.
Composition.
Grammar.
Various English Language qualifications, including IELTS, CAE, CPE, TOEFL, etc.
In June 2025 my wonderful doctoral student, the novelist Ashleigh Nugent, passed his PhD viva with flying colours. We were delighted to welcome legendary poet, novelist, and playwright Professor Jackie Kay to LJMU as one of Ashleigh’s external examiners.