BA (selected)
Introduction to Anglo-American Literature, from 1750 to the present
Poetry Post-1945
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Wordsworth and Nature Poetry
Poetry and Letters of John Keats
The Poetry of Birds
Seamus Heaney: Poetry of Four Elements
Eco-writing: the poetry and prose of Kathleen Jamie
Sacred and Profane: Don Paterson’s poetry and prose
Oxford Fantasists: Carroll, Lewis, Tolkien, Pullman
Animal and Child: animal stories for child readers
Hot Poets: Poetry and Climate Change
MA (selected)
Seamus Heaney and the Good of Poetry
Awkward Misfits: Stevie Smith and William Blake
Climate Change and the Literary Imagination
Ecopoetry: Crisis and Collaboration
Katabasis: the Descent to Hell from Virgil and Dante to the present
Tolkien’s Environmental Vision
Crossover Fiction: Children’s Literature and Adult Readers
Kazuo Ishiguro and Memory Fiction
Translation and Poetics: Seamus Heaney’s Aeneid Book VI
Modern Poetry and the Auditory Imagination
Romantic Poetry and Music
British Magic Realism
Fantasy Before Tolkien: Morris, Dunsany, Buchan, Lindsay
Critical Approaches: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogism; Ecocriticism
External
University of Provence: Lecturing Fellowship, Centre for Anglophone Studies, Aix-en-Provence (24 May- 25 June, 2007).
Lodz University: Invited Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Lodz, Poland (5-20 March, 1995).
The Charles University: Visiting Lecturer in English Literature, Department of English and American Literature, Prague (full-time, Aug1990 – July 1992).
University of Geneva: ‘George Herbert and the Impossibility of Poetry’, guest seminar leader, Renaissance Literature Doctoral Workshop, Spring 2010.
University of Neuchatel: ‘What it Means to be Human: the writings of Primo Levi’ (MA) guest seminar leader, Spring 2010.
University of Neuchatel, Modern British Literature from 1785 to the present (BA), Lecture Series, Autumn 2013.
University of Geneva, ‘The Poetics of Listening: Jean-Luc Nancy’s A l’écoute and Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle‘, guest seminar leader, Modern Literature Doctoral Workshop, Autumn 2014.
University of Oslo, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Elements’, guest seminar leader, hosted by Prof Juan Christian Pellicer, Autumn 2023.