After an academic career at the University of Bristol I am an independent scholar based in Oxford and London. These pages include a list of publications, and describe some of my current and earlier projects.
I first specialised in Victorian and Modern literature, especially the work of Robert Browning.
More widely, I have published on individual writers including James Joyce,Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, George Seferis, Ezra Pound and Seamus Heaney.
Other main interests are Philhellenism, and the reception of classical antiquity. A recent essay is:“Ezra Pound’s Ragbag: The Cantosas Cento”, in Cento-Texts in the Making: Aesthetics and Poetics of Cento-Techniques from Homer to Zong! ed. Manuel Baumbach (Trier, 2022), pp. 21–40.
I continue to work on Edward Lear, bringing together the written and visual records of his Greek travels to reconstruct Lear’s own projected “Topography of Greece”.
Available so far are: The Cretan Journal, the Grecian travels of 1848, the journeys in Greece and Albania in 1856 and 1857, the 1848 section of the Ionian Islands (Lear in Zakynthos, Ithaca and Cephalonia ) and a summary page about Lear and Corfu.
One Greek journey remains to be published: The Ionian Islands,1863 (excluding Corfu; see Introduction to the Ionian Islands). An edition of each island will be posted on this website as soon as it is completed; the first, Lear in Paxos, is now available.
Lear in Santa Maura/Leukada and Lear in Cerigo/Kythera are currently under construction.
