(all featured in English & Media Centre publications)
Childish Things and Goblin Kings: Revisiting Labyrinth after 30 years
Wilkie Collins and The Moonstone Legacy: introducing the detective novel formula
Charles Dickens, Serial Thriller: the structure and genres of Great Expectations (with a close analysis of Chapter 19)
Ted Hughes and Billy Collins: The Thought-Fox and Wolf
Water-skiing with Billy Collins: an introduction to writing poetry
“More myself than I am”: seeing double in Wuthering Heights
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel”
Sounds Poetic: Listening to how poetry works
A Slice of the Action: Criticising Cupcakes and Kalishnikovs
The Great Gatsby: The Advertisement of the Man
A Girl Called Alice: Exploring Carroll’s Characters in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A Case of Narrative: The Appeal of Crime Fiction
Road Works: Using Cormac McCarthy’s The Road for English coursework
One for The Road: Exploring Cormac McCarthy’s Dystopian Journey
(also adapted for the BFS Journal, from the British Fantasy Society, 2012)
A Love Less Worth Than Apples (a close analysis of Rossetti’s ‘An Apple Gathering’)
Forbidden Fruits: Sex and Religion in ‘Goblin Market’
The Lady is a Vamp: Fearing Female Sexuality in Dracula
The Snow Child (a close analysis of Angela Carter’s story)
Language Change: Exploring the Word ‘Punk’ Through Time
Imagination, Isolation and Innocence: The Romantic in Frankenstein
(republished in the BFS Journal, from the British Fantasy Society, 2011)
A Wicked Pack of Cards: Cultural allusions and intertextuality in ‘The Waste Land’
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