Teaching
I teach across English Literature, Creative Writing, Media Studies, academic research, and writing. My approach combines close reading, discussion, critical theory, visual analysis, and creative practice.
At the centre of my teaching is judgement: helping students read carefully, question sources and assumptions, make stronger intellectual choices, and understand why those choices matter. The aim is not simply to produce a better piece of work, but to develop greater confidence and independence in the thought behind it.
Approach
Teaching for independence
I treat the seminar, tutorial, or one-to-one session as a space for serious but open enquiry. Students need enough structure to know what is being asked of them, and enough freedom to test ideas, make connections, revise assumptions, and develop a voice of their own.
Reading
Close attention to texts, images, arguments, form, context, and the assumptions beneath an interpretation.
Judgement
Research, source selection, critical comparison, and the ability to distinguish evidence from assertion.
Authorship
Confidence in making intellectual and creative decisions while retaining responsibility for the work produced.
University teaching
York St John University
I designed and delivered undergraduate seminars across English Literature, Creative Writing, and Media Studies, with discussion, close reading, visual analysis, and creative practice at the centre of the classroom.
I developed teaching materials across narrative form, literary history, identity and representation, digital culture, research methods, academic writing, referencing, and critical theory.
Alongside seminar teaching, I provided assessment and feedback, academic tutorials, research development, and student guidance. I maintained Moodle platforms and contributed to programme delivery and assessment administration.
Selected teaching
Modules and subject areas
My university teaching ranged from first-year transition and academic-skills modules to literary analysis, creative practice, media theory, identity, and digital culture.
English Literature & Creative Writing
Literature, narrative & practice
Forms of Narrative
Poetry, short fiction, drama, the novel, graphic narrative, and film, with close reading, visual analysis, narrative form, and creative response.
Introduction to Literary Studies 1
Pre-nineteenth-century literature, literary history, genre, theory, close reading, interpretation, and effective participation in university seminars.
Personal Development Sessions
Research, academic writing, referencing, creative practice, project planning, publishing, portfolio development, and the transition to degree-level study.
Introduction to Literary Studies 2
Victorian serial fiction, modernist short stories, literary experimentation, and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Media Studies
Media, identity & digital culture
Research in Practice
Research methods, source selection, critical reading, academic writing, referencing, visual research, presentation skills, and transition to degree-level study.
Mediated Identities
Identity and representation across class, race, gender, disability, age, queer theory, postcolonial thought, visual culture, and critical theory.
Life Online
Media convergence, participatory and digital culture, online identity, technology and ethics, commerce, and artificial intelligence.
Media, Culture and Society
Celebrity, digital resurrection, simulacra and hyperreality, class, cultural capital, and contemporary media culture.
Current teaching
One-to-one tuition and mentoring
Since 2024 I have worked independently with undergraduate and postgraduate students across English Literature, Creative Writing, and Media Studies. The work is shaped around the individual student and the particular intellectual or creative problem in front of them.
Academic work
Research & writing
Essay planning and revision, close reading, research techniques, source selection, dissertation development, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, referencing, and argument structure.
Creative work
Writing & form
Creative portfolios, reflective writing, narrative structure, long-form projects, experimental form, critical and creative thought, and the development of a writer's own decisions.
Student development
Confidence & independence
Support with academic confidence, project planning, research choices, feedback, and the transition from uncertainty towards greater intellectual independence.
AI literacy
Responsible AI in research and writing
My current teaching also addresses the use of generative AI in academic research and writing. I approach AI as a tool that requires judgement rather than as a substitute for it.
I work with students on ways to use AI to clarify ideas, plan research, test arguments, question assumptions, and refine drafts while maintaining responsibility for sources, evidence, prose, and academic decisions.
Particular attention is paid to unsupported or fabricated output, source quality, authorship, academic integrity, and recognising the point at which assistance begins to replace the student's own intellectual work.
Enquiries
Teaching and tutoring
For enquiries about one-to-one tuition, teaching, educational projects, or academic collaboration, please get in touch.