Hello! I am professor in English literature at Umeå University and director of the Faculty of Arts Doctoral College, Umeå University. I am also the coordinator of the Umeå Network for Medical Humanities and editor (with Professor Terry Walker) of The Nordic Journal of English Studies.
My research concerns literature, medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, as well as higher education and academic writing.
I teach academic writing, literary theory and methods, medieval literature, as well as several master's courses, such as "Literature and Medicine", "Blaming the Body", "Narrating Madness in Literature and Culture" and "Motifs of Madness", and "Literature and Disability".
Before I moved to Sweden, I completed my PhD in English at the University of Cambridge where my dissertation traced the concept of discretion in medieval England. I also have a master's degree in Medieval and Renaissance Literature also from Cambridge, a master's degree in journalism from Columbia, and a bachelor's degree in English from Trinity College, Dublin.
I welcome PhD proposals in the areas of medieval literature; literature and the body; medical humanities; historicism; historical fiction.
I also serve as a judge for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction.
In my spare time, I enjoy powerlifting and embroidery.
My research concerns literature, medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, as well as higher education and academic writing.
I teach academic writing, literary theory and methods, medieval literature, as well as several master's courses, such as "Literature and Medicine", "Blaming the Body", "Narrating Madness in Literature and Culture" and "Motifs of Madness", and "Literature and Disability".
Before I moved to Sweden, I completed my PhD in English at the University of Cambridge where my dissertation traced the concept of discretion in medieval England. I also have a master's degree in Medieval and Renaissance Literature also from Cambridge, a master's degree in journalism from Columbia, and a bachelor's degree in English from Trinity College, Dublin.
I welcome PhD proposals in the areas of medieval literature; literature and the body; medical humanities; historicism; historical fiction.
I also serve as a judge for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction.
In my spare time, I enjoy powerlifting and embroidery.
