I came to Birmingham in 2005 from the universities of Cambridge and Leeds; I studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at Girton College, Cambridge, and held a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Leeds.

I enjoy teaching across the full range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Birmingham, with a particular concentration in writing of the early modern and romantic periods. At undergraduate level I contribute to our second-year Generic Transformations module, our final-year Shakespeare module, and I offer currently a special option final-year paper on Lyrical Ballads. At postgraduate level, I contribute to a pair of modules, Writing Revolutions I and II, which form part of the MA English Literature.

I received an Award for Excellence in both elements of the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education that I completed at Birmingham in 2011; in 2008 I was awarded one of the university's Excellence in Teaching prizes.

I welcome enquiries from prospective graduate students across the range of my teaching and research interests.

I have supervised two PhD students to completion: Wendy Trevor, whose thesis explored the varieties of dramatised male friendship in the early modern period; and, in co-supervision with Professor John Jowett, Natalie Aldred, who has edited William Haughton’s play, Englishmen for My Money.

I am currently supervising three students. Harry Newman, who is working on impression and questions of identity in Shakespeare, I co-supervise with Professor Jowett; Ceren Sengezer, who is working on Jack Kerouac and American Shakespeare, I co-supervise with Professor Dick Ellis; and Debra Weston, who is working on Gothic drama on the Romantic stage, I co-supervise with Dr Sebastian Mitchell.

I also supervise MPhil(B) students working on Shakespearean topics with colleagues in Drama and American and Canadian Studies.

I am interested in supervising MA, MPhil and PhD candidates in the following areas and will be pleased to respond to enquiries:

• Ben Jonson and his contemporaries
• The relationships of Renaissance and Romantic writers
• The relationships of manuscript and print
• Early modern poetry and drama

My research explores the relationships between Renaissance writers and their later readers, and the material forms in which these and other textual exchanges take place. My first book, Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age (Oxford University Press, 2005), explores the many forms in which Jonson was mobile within the Romantic period. The book is part of my ongoing interest in the ways in which understandings of Renaissance writers and their texts have transformed by the history of their productions, publication and readership.

I delivered the Chatterton Lecture on English Poetry at the British Academy in October 2009, speaking on the title ‘Donne, By Hand’ (a podcast of the lecture can be downloaded here). I earlier spoke at the British Academy on ‘Milton in the Twentieth Century’ as part of a colloquium to celebrate the quatercentenary of Milton’s birth in December 2008. I have published widely on poetic and dramatic manuscripts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries: I was awarded The Review of English Studies Essay Prize (2003) for my article, 'The Sheridans at Work', and my article reporting the text of a new country house poem, 'All Hayle to Hatfeild', was chosen for republication in the 40th Anniversary Virtual Issue of English Literary Renaissance.

I am currently finishing work on the poetry and career of one of Francis Bacon’s chaplains, William Lewis, for a collection to be published by Manchester University Press, The Cultural Agency of Early Modern Chaplains, co-edited with Hugh Adlington and Gillian Wright; and am beginning new research into Charles Lamb, and in particular his Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and Extracts from the Garrick Plays (1827), for a new complete edition of The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, to be published by Oxford University Press.

I am the Deputy Head of Education (Quality) for the School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies.

I am the Renaissance and Early Modern Section Editor for Routledge's Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Books

• Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age (Oxford University Press, 2005) .

Articles and chapters in edited collections

• ‘Ben Jonson in the Nineteenth Century’ in Eugene Giddens, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Ben Jonson (Oxford University Press; in press)
• ‘For Honour and Glory: Reading Selden and Sylvester in the Seventeenth Century’, Leeds Studies in English (in press).
• ‘Donne, By Hand’ (The Chatterton Lecture on Poetry 2009), Proceedings of the British Academy, 167 (2011), 453-77.
• ‘Milton in the Twentieth Century’ in Paul Hammond and Blair Worden, eds, John Milton 1608-2008: Life, Work, and Reputation (Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2010), pp.167-86.
• ' "All Hayle to Hatfeild": A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44 [with text]', English Literary Renaissance, 38 (2008), 270-303; republished in the 40th Anniversary Virtual Issue ofEnglish Literary Renaissance (2012).
• 'The Sheridans at Work Again: The Wallace Manuscript of The Siege of St Quintin ', The Review of English Studies, 58 (2007), 89-93.
• '"The hazzard of grosse mistakes in ignorant Transcribers": A New Manuscript Text of Sir Robert Stapylton's Musaeus on the Loves of Hero and Leander ', English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 13 (2007), 250-69.
• 'Manuscript, Print, and the Authentic Shakespeare: The Ireland Forgeries Again', Shakespeare Survey 59 (Cambridge, 2006), 108-23.
• 'The Sheridans at Work: A Recovered Drury Lane Revisal of 1808', The Review of English Studies, 55 (2004), 487-97, winner of The Review of English Studies Essay Prize 2003; a text is available online here.
• 'Edmond Malone and Early Modern Textual Culture', The Yale University Library Gazette, 79 (2004), 53-69.
• 'Francis Godolphin Waldron and Ben Jonson's The Sad Shepherd', The Library, 7th series, 3 (2002), 390-412.

Introductions

• Arden of Faversham, introd. Tom Lockwood, playtext ed. Martin White, New Mermaids (London : A&C Black, 2007)

Shorter articles and notes

• ‘Shakespeare’s Ophelia, Milton’s Lycidas’, Notes & Queries, n.s. 57 (2010), 41-3.
• 30 ‘Biographical Sketches of English translators’, Henry Carey to George Wither (with other sketches by Robert Cummings, Stuart Gillespie and Gillian Wright), in The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume 2: 1550-1660, eds Gordon Braden, Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp.433-70.
• 'Survey of the Text' (in collaboration with David Gants), The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, general editors David Bevington, Martin Butler and Ian Donaldson (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2011).
• 'Works (1692)', 'Works (1716-7)', 'Works (1756)' and 'Works (1816)' [bibliographical essays], The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, general editors David Bevington, Martin Butler and Ian Donaldson (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
• 'New Allusions to Jonson and Sidney', Notes & Queries, n.s. 52 (2005), 227-29.
• 'Sir Thomas North', The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), 41.119-22.
• 'Theatrical Jonson', Essays in Criticism, 50 (2000), 273-80 (review essay).
• Reviews have appeared in The Library, The British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, BARS Review & Bulletin, Early Modern Literary Studies, New Theatre Quarterly and Renaissance Journal.