Prominent areas of research and teaching are
• Literature and Culture of the Early Modern Period
• Literature and Culture of the Eighteenth Century
• Literature and Culture of the Nineteenth Century
• Modernism
• Contemporary Literatures, Cultures and Media
• Ireland, Scotland and Wales
• Gender Studies
• New English Literatures and Cultures (Postcolonial Studies)
• Literary Linguistics
• Literature and Science
• Empirical Aesthetics
• Genres, especially Narrative and Poetry
• Literature and Medicine/ Medical Humanties
• Literature and the Effective History of Philosophy
• History and Theory of the Senses