University lecturing
I am an educator with a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing, and I have taught undergraduate modules across three disciplines. My teaching is built on the conviction that critical thinking should not be confined to academia and that storytelling is one of the most powerful tools for understanding the world, a belief I hold with the kind of certainty that makes me suspicious of certainty generally, but here we are.
English Literature & Creative Writing
Forms of Narrative
How storytelling mechanics work across novels, poetry, drama, and film.
Introduction to Literary Studies
A foundation in literary analysis, engaging with historical, theoretical, and contemporary perspectives.
Personal Development Sessions
Where students realise that academic writing and creative writing are not as different as they thought.
Media Studies
Research in Practice
Critical thinking, media research methodologies, and interdisciplinary analysis.
Mediated Identities
How media constructs race, gender, class, and cultural narratives in ways that often go unnoticed.
Life Online
An exploration of digital spaces, participatory culture, and how the internet is shaping identity faster than we can study it.
Private tutoring
I offer one-to-one academic tuition for undergraduate and postgraduate students in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Media Studies. This includes essay writing, close reading, dissertation development, and research design.
My approach is tailored, supportive, and built around the idea that the best tutoring does not just improve grades, it improves how students think about their own thinking. I have worked with students at every level of confidence, from those who arrived doubting whether they belonged at university to those who needed someone to challenge them further. The work is the same either way: meet the person where they are, take their ideas seriously, and help them find the clarity their writing is reaching for.
Mentoring
I work with a small number of writers each year on memoir, hybrid nonfiction, and formally experimental narrative. This is not general writing advice. It is careful, sustained work over time, focused on the development of a manuscript from its earliest stages through to a coherent whole.
Mentoring is for writers who are working on something substantial, such as a memoir, life writing or autofiction project, or a fragmented narrative that resists the conventions of traditional structure. It is for those who want rigorous, committed feedback from someone who has spent a long time thinking about how these forms work and why they matter.
What the work involves:
- Structural design and long-form architecture
- Coherence within fragmentation
- Shaping memory into narrative form
- Integrating critical thought with lived experience
- Sustained manuscript development
My approach draws on my doctoral research in experimental life writing and the photo-sketching methodology I developed, as well as years of teaching creative writing and literature at university level. I bring the same theoretical depth to mentoring that I bring to my own writing, but the emphasis is always on the practical question: how do you make this piece of work do what you need it to do?
I take on a limited number of writers at any given time. This is a high-trust, high-attention arrangement. It is not a course, not a workshop, and not a drop-in service.