In the 2017-18 academic year I’ll be teaching and lecturing on the following modules at Birmingham: ‘Prose’, ‘Making it New: Modernism and Literary Innovation in the Early Twentieth Century’, and ‘The Modernist Novel’.

For the foreseeable future I’ll be concentrating on three publications:

• a monograph about Beethoven and literary modernism, for Oxford University Press;
• a scholarly edition of Wyndham Lewis’s novel Snooty Baronet (1932), for Oxford University Press;
• a monograph about Lewis and twentieth-century politics, for Princeton University Press.

I am a Co-Director of Birmingham’s Centre for Modernist Cultures.

A lot of my professional activity is concerned with supporting the scholars who research the life and work of the modernist painter and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). I am current Chairperson of the Wyndham Lewis Society; co-editor of The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies; and a member of the Editorial Board of the Wyndham Lewis Complete Critical Edition commissioned by Oxford University Press. I write about my work on Lewis on my personal website, ‘The Apes of Blog’.

- ‘Modernism and Music: A Review of Recent Scholarship’, Modernist Cultures, 12.2 (Spring 2017): 316-30

- ‘Signs of the T: Aldous Huxley, High Art, and American Technocracy’, in Jonathan Greenberg and Nathan Waddell (eds), ‘Brave New World’: Contexts and Legacies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 31-49

- ‘Lawrence Atkinson, Sculpture, and Vorticist Multimediality’, Modernism/modernity Print Plus, 1.3 (September 2016): n.p.

- ‘BLAST (1914-15)’, in Stephen Ross (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (Routledge, 2016): online

- ‘Lewis and Fascism’, in Tyrus Miller (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 87-99

- ‘Lewis and Politics’, in Andrzej Gąsiorek and Nathan Waddell (eds), Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015): 128-42

- ‘Wyndham Lewis’s “Very Bad Thing”: Jazz, Inter-War Culture, and The Apes of God’, Modernist Cultures, 8.1 (Spring 2013): 61-81

- ‘Providing Ridicule: Wyndham Lewis and Satire in the Postwar-to-end-war World’, in Alice Reeve-Tucker and Nathan Waddell (eds), Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013): 56-73

- ‘Bohemian Retrospects: Ford Madox Ford, Post-War Memory, and the Cabaret Theatre Club’, in Kate McLoughlin (ed.), The Modernist Party (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013): 192-209

- (ed. with Kate Macdonald), John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013)

- ‘Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight: An Unacknowledged Adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent?’, Adaptation, 6.1 (February 2013): 43-59

- ‘John Buchan’s Amicable Anti-Modernism’, The Journal of Modern Literature, 35.2 (Winter 2012): 64-82

- Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

- ‘Technocracy and the Fordian Arts: America, The American Mercury, and Music in the 1930s’, in Sara Haslam and Seamus O’Malley (eds), Ford Madox Ford and America, International Ford Madox Ford Studies Vol. 11 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012): 167-80

- (with Alice Reeve-Tucker), ‘Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, and Inter-War British Youth: Conflict and Infantilism’, in Andrzej Gąsiorek, Alice Reeve-Tucker, and Nathan Waddell (eds), Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011): 163-82

- ‘Modernist Coteries and Communities’, in Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gąsiorek, Deborah Longworth, and Andrew Thacker (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 740-61

- ‘Buchan and the Pacifists’, in Kate Macdonald (ed.), Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009): 91-101

- Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)

- ‘Pathology in John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps’, The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, 1.2 (2008): 4-11