Invited Lectures
2021
2020
Radical Expectations: Subverting literary tropes in Patrick Ness’s The Rest Of Us Just Live Here
Guest Lecture, Children's Literature module, European Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 16th March 2021.
The Knife of Never Letting Go: Boyhood in Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness
Guest Lecture, Gendering Literature and Culture module, European Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 15th December 2020.
Supervising
2022
2022
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2020
2020
2019
2019
2018
Literature and Culture
Track specific module for the Education, English and Drama degree. Small group teaching with essays and discussions.
Children's Literature
Research and Investigation Undergraduate Dissertation
Title:TBC Education and Exisentialism
Research and Investigation Undergraduate Dissertation
Title: TBC Outer Banks and Maturation
Children's Literature Coursework
Representations of grief in Brian Lies' The Rough Patch and Oliver Jeffers' Heart in a Bottle
Poetics, Aesthetics, and Criticism
Track specific module for the Education, English and Drama degree. Small group teaching with essays and discussions.
Literature and Culture
Track specific module for the Education, English and Drama degree. Small group teaching with essays and discussions.
Research and Investigation Undergraduate Dissertation
Title: Harry Potter and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Exploring Dialogue and Voice in Education
Children's Literature coursework
Boarding schools, Lacrosse and the Stiff upper lip: An exploration of social class in Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers book series.
Children's Literature coursework
How is the maturation of children presented in Disney Studios’ Alice in Wonderland and Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away?
Poetics, Aesthetics, and Criticism
Track specific module for the Education, English and Drama degree. Small group teaching with essays and discussions.
Children's Literature coursework
The Countdown to the Birthday: Marking Maturation through Rituals of Coming-of-Age in Patrick Ness’ The Knife of Never Letting Go and Michael Grant’s Gone
Teacher Training Placements
2016
2015
2015
All Hallows Catholic High School
Taught KS3 and KS4.
Ballakermeen High School
Taught KS3 and KS4. Implemented new KS3 mark scheme based on iGCSE framework. Involved with Book Club, Drama Club, Sixth Form University Fair, Employability Day and supported the school’s Shakespeare screening of Midsummer Nights Dream.
Manchester Settlement School
Taught KS3 and KS4. Introduced school to City in the Community scheme.