She is in the Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse department where she teaches a range of first year writing courses. Her literary background is in the long nineteenth century and she has published short pieces on John Keats and the Lake School poets. She is currently working on a critical biography of Emma Brooke, which focuses on Brooke’s socialist politics as they relate to her interests in and promotion of women and worker’s rights during her lifetime. Tilley is examining Brooke’s central and active leadership within the Fabian Society and the Fabian Women’s Group between 1885 and 1918. Included in the book will be an exploration of Brooke’s most important relationships with those writers and intellectuals whom she befriended in the early years of the Fabian Society, including George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Edward Pease.