I specialise in Romantic and Victorian poetry, ecocriticism, ecoGothic and the relationship of language to place and identity. I have published on dialect, identity and place, John Clare, William Barnes, Tennyson, Philip Henry Gosse, gardens, Gothic sea-anemones, and environmental justice, plus several book reviews in assorted journals, and I am currently co-editing essay collections on georgic, Reworking Georgic, with Tess Somervell; and on Hannah More, Hannah More in Context, with Kerri Andrews, both forthcoming with Routledge, and a specialist georgic edition of Ecozon@ with Pippa Marland and Philipp Erchinger. I am Reviews Editor for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-UKI). I am the ecocriticism representative on the steering committee of the International Ecolinguistics Association, and I am currently writing a monograph on Virgil’s Georgics and environmental recovery.

My essay collection EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers is published with MUP (2020)

I came to these research and teaching interests through a perpetual and continuing obession with Virgil's Georgics, Milton's Paradise Lost, and John Clare's linguistically provocative and environmentally challenging poetry. And William Barnes, whose dialect pins place to person, human to nonhuman in the wide domestic exterior and interior landscape. My PhD was about gardens, dialect, georgics, lyric, John Clare and William Barnes, guided by international ecocritics, Greg Garrard and Richard Kerridge, honed into shape with the help of Tessa Hadley. Felix agricolae in the literary fields.