He is the current Chair of the British Society for Literature and Science, the author of Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution (Edinburgh: EUP, 2009) and the editor of Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions (Liverpool: LUP, 2012). He is currently researching the relationship between Pre-Raphaelitism and science, in collaboration with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum, the Manchester Museum and the Manchester Art Gallery. He is also working with the Royal Society supervising a collaborative doctoral project on the place of the Royal Society in Victorian literary culture, and co-editing a new Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science.