I taught a range of texts concerned with wandering and exile, including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Byron and James, to first- year undergraduates. Course tutor, 'Critical Reading', University of Liverpool, second semester 1998-9. On this course I introduce students to a range of critical methods and approaches to narrative. Set texts include works by Malory, Woolf, Beckett and Keats. The programme comprised papers on a range of nineteenth- century genres, including melodrama, criticism, auobiography, sensation fiction, quilt design, poetry and the Gothic.
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This committee seeks information and feedback on students' problems and concerns, acts on them when possible and channels suggestions and request through to the Faculty and University Senate. Chair of the University's Postgraduate Standing Committee, which administers funds to support facilities and issues relevant to postgraduate students. I am also a member of the Postgraduate and Mature Students Society. Member of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 1996-8. Invigilator at University of Liverpool undergraduate examinations, 1996-8.