About
My research focuses on intersections of literature, theology and religion from the Romantic period to the present. I have published extensively on the works of the Bronte family, including my book 'Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination' (Bloomsbury, 2014). I have a particular interest in the Gothic genre in both the Victorian and contemporary periods. My book 'The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction' (Palgrave, 2018) explores forms of theological engagement in Gothic and horror literature of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. My current research focuses on the uses of literature and literary criticism in the work of Black Liberation and Womanist theologians from the 1960s onwards, exploring both the uses of literary texts as primary sources for theology and the reading practices developed by Black theologians in the context of the Civil Rights movement and beyond.
I am interested in supervising postgraduate research in literature and religion, nineteenth-century literature, and the Gothic.
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