My research interests cluster around the intersection of rhetoric, religion and intellectual history with English literature of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially the work of John Milton, John Bunyan, and other Puritan and Dissenting writers.

Prior to joining Regent’s I was Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Exeter. I attended the University of Cambridge where I completed a BA (Hons) in English at Christ’s College followed by a MPhil in Renaissance Literature and PhD on Puritanism and Persuasion in Early Modern England. 

My first book, The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022. In addition, I am the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Allegory, due for publication in 2025, and the Reviews Editor for Bunyan Studies, journal of the International John Bunyan Society.

My Role in College

I am the Tutorial Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Regent’s Park College. I am excited to build on Regent’s Dissenting heritage and strengths in Dissenting studies and also have broader interests in relating English literature to Christian theology.

I have recently completed a three-year project entitled ‘Writing Religious Conflict and Community in Exeter 1500–1750’ (ReConEx), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and am currently co-editing (with Philip Schwyzer and Niall Allsopp) an essay collection emerging from this project on writing religious identities in southwest England from 1500 to 1800.