Research
Research Interest 1
Early modern and eighteenth-century literature and history, especially on issues related to crime and punishment, satire, marginal figures, literary biography, textual editing, the history of the book and of authorship. Writers on whom I have worked include Juvenal, Rochester, Oldham, Congreve, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Walpole, Inchbald, Baillie, Charlotte Smith and many minor figures. I have supervised doctoral work on satire, text editing, book history, gothic fiction, the sonnet revival, eighteenth-century women's writing, and crime writing.
Research grants
Edmund Curll :A Bio-Bibliographical Study.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
October 2001 - September 2003
Exchange agreement with Huntington Library, California.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
April 2003 - May 2003
Edmund Curll: A bio-bibliographical study (London Newspapers).
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
May 2003 - September 2003
Edmund Curll, bookseller.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (UK)
March 2003 - December 2003
Edward Rushton: A Bicentenary Conference
MODERN HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (UK)
November 2014
Crime and Punishment in Augustan Poetry
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2006 - January 2007
Research collaborations
Professor Pat Rogers
University of South Florida
Ongoing research into early eighteenth-century publishing, particularly the work of Edmund Curll
Dr Julian Ferraro
Co-editors of Longman Annotated English Poets series edition of Poems of Alexander Pope, volume 1