Teaching
I have taught on a wide range of modules, including RTI (ESH 102), Architexts (ESH 243), Modernism (ESH 213), High and Low Moderns (ESH 6003), Narrative (ESH 123), The Early Twentieth Century Short Story (ESH 347) and the English Research Dissertation (ESH 6000).
Publications
Books
- Aldous Huxley, Critical Lives series (Reaktion Books, 2021). ISBN: 978-1-78914-427-7 (207 pages; 56,735 words)
- Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality (Brill, 2019). ISBN: 978-90-04-40689-6 (356 pages; 143,359 words).
- Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Jake Poller (Routledge, 2019). ISBN: 978-0-367-18376-9.
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
- ‘New weird fiction and the oneirologic of both-and’, Textual Practice, 36.8 (2022), 1-16. Online. DOI: 1080/0950236X.2022.2111701 (7,189 words).
- ‘A Kind of Magic: Dreams and the Occult in Alan Moore’s Providence’, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 32.1 (2021), 70-89. Print. ISSN: 0897-0521 (9,077 words).
- ‘Fully Human Being: Aldous Huxley’s Island, Tantra and Human Potential’, International Journal for the Study of New Religions 10, 1 (2019), 25-47. Print. ISSN: 2041-9511 (9,466 words).
- ‘Introduction’, in Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Jake Poller (New York: Routledge, 2019), 1-44. Print. ISBN: 978-0-367-18376-9 (19,192 words).
- ‘The Herald of the King: Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical Imagination’, in Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Jake Poller (New York: Routledge, 2019), 149-166. Print. ISBN: 978-0-367-18376-9 (7,676 words).
- ‘D. Lawrence, Fascism, and the Logic of Contamination’, D.H. Lawrence Review, 43, 1&2 (2018), 25-43. Print. ISSN: 0011-4936 (8,238 words).
- ‘Under a Glamour: Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater and Neo-Theosophy’, in The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947, ed. by Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford (New York: Routledge, 2018), 77-93. Print. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8698-1 (7,224 words).
- ‘Beyond the Subliminal Mind: Psychical Research in the Work of Aldous Huxley’, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 15, 2 (2015), 247-266. Print. ISSN: 1567-9896 (6,932 words).
- ‘The Transmutations of Arthur Machen: Alchemy in “The Great God Pan” and The Three Impostors’, Literature and Theology, 29, 1 (2015), 18-32. Print. ISSN: 0269-1205 (6,917 words).
- ‘The Philosophy of Life-Worship: D.H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley’, H. Lawrence Review, 34-35 (2010), 75-91. Print. ISSN: 0011-4936 (8,005 words).
- ‘Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay: London in the Aftermath of World War I’, Literary London Journal, 8, 2 (2010). ISSN: 1744-0807 (3,771 words).
- ‘State versus Individual: Civil Disobedience in Brave New World’, in Bloom’s Literary Themes: Civil Disobedience, ed. by Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby (New York: Chelsea House, 2010), 89-100. Print. ISBN: 978-1-60413-439-1 (3,982 words).
- ‘“God-Intoxicated”: An Essay on Jiddu Krishnamurti and His Relationship with Aldous Huxley’, Aldous Huxley Annual, 9 (2009), 115-132. Print. ISBN: 978-3-643-10846-3 (6,453 words).
- ‘“These Maximal Horrors of War”: Aldous Huxley, Garsington and the Great War’, Aldous Huxley Annual, 6 (2006), 63-76. ISBN: 978-3-8258-1436-6 (5,106 words).
