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Research Interests:
Relations between literature and philosophy, and literature and science, epsecially nineteenth-century poetry; Gerard manley Hopkins; James Clerk Maxwell; Film studies; Modernism Teaching:
Poetry; film; literature and culture of the eighteen, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Modernism; Modernity.
Key Research and Expertise:
Relations between literature and philosophy, and literature and science, especially nineteenth-century poetry; Gerard Manley Hopkins; James Clerk Maxwell; Film Studies; Modernism
Current Projects:
Monograph on poetry by Victorian scientists.
A commissioned article on Thomas de Quincey for Studies in Romanticism. Grants:
Three-year ARC 'Discovery' grant, 2002-2004.
Publications:
Authored Books
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Writers and their Work. London: Northcote House in association with The British Council, 2004
Hopkins’ Idealism: Philosophy, Physics, Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. xv + 345.
With Hilary Fraser, English Prose of the Nineteenth Century. London: Longmans, 1997.
Chapters in Books
“Hopkins and the Problem of Singularity” Soundings: Hopkins Studies in Transition. A critical symposium by The Hopkins Quarterly Critics, New York, (forthcoming 2008).
'The Body of Language dancing to the Music of Time: Mind, Body and Style in De Quincey.' Victorian Turns and Neo-Victorian Returns. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008
“Victorian Poetry and Science,” The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, ed. Joseph Bristow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 137-58.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Wilde and Wilder”, PMLA, v. 119, no. 5 (October 2004), 1216-1230.
“Hopkins and the Problem of Singularity”, The Hopkins Quarterly, v. 31, nos 1-4 (Winter-Fall 2004), 83-96.
“Norma Desmond as star-sign: Being and Being Seen in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard,” Salt: An International Journal of Poetry and Poetics, v. 16 (2002), 69-79.
“Theory, Teaching and the Syllabus: Reading the West Australian TEE Literature Syllabus,” Interpretations, vol. 32, no. 1 (August 1999), 21-25.
Contributions to Scholarly Works
'Style and Metaphysics' (A Review Essay of Vols 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, and 18 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, The Pickering Masters (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001)). Studies in Romanticism, Special issue on Thomas de Quincey, forthcoming Spring/Summer 2005 (accepted 10th December 2003).
“Literature and Philosophy” (2 500 wds), “Hopkins” (1000 wds), The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. New York: Continuum, 2003.
“Foreword,” in David Bromfield, Suitcase City: A study of the work of Thomas Hoareau. Perth: Brown (Art), 1999, 7.
“Hopkins and the Problem of Singularity” Soundings: Hopkins Studies in Transition. A critical symposium by The Hopkins Quarterly Critics. Ed. Cary Plotkin. New York: Garland, (forthcoming 2007 (accepted 2003)). [rpt of essay below].
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