- Academic Enhancement Lead, De Montfort University
I am a cultural and media historian who is interested in gender, class and popular culture. My first book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation (Bloomsbury, 2021) looked at the ways that the suburban white-collar classes are represented in everyday life – using mainly comic examples from sitcoms, films, novels, and newsprint. I have also published on contemporary and classic crime fiction, adaptation, nature writing, and am currently working on various projects related to British comedy in the 1990s.
I am Academic Enhancement Lead in the Education Academy at De Montfort University. Prior to this, I taught History and Liberal Arts at Loughborough University, and English, Film and Television at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Experience
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2024–presentAcademic Enhancement Lead, De Montfort University
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2023–2024Director of Strategic Curriculum Development & Education Innovation, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University
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2014–2023Senior Lecturer in English/Film with Television, Manchester Metropolitan University
Education
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2014Lancaster University, PhD in English and History
Publications
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2021Lower-Middle-Class Nation,
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- Location: Loughborough, UK
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