My doctoral research was on epic, Romanticism, and the philosophy of mind. I argued that the epic mode is generally associated with the presentation of an ontological picture that emphasizes mind as, or as an aspect of, the one fundamental substance. Epic also typically presents normative models of agency, grounded by the ontological picture. With reference to works by Wordsworth (Christianized Spinozism), the Brownings (doubt and pragmatism about metaphysics), and Whitman (pantheism), I showed some intricacies of and exceptions to this way of understanding epic, and offered new interpretations of views on epic presented by theorists such as Hegel, Lukács, and Marcuse.
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
- Undergraduate and postgraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 2011 to 2015)
- Epic and the novel
- Lyric
- Romanticism
- Idealism
- Philosophy of art
- Literature and Platonism
- 'Polymetry and Metaphysics in F. T. Prince', Essays in Criticism 69:4 (October 2019)
- 'Order and Disorder in the Ottava Rima of Byron and Shelley', Essays in Criticism 67:1 (January 2017)
- The Multiverse (Carcanet, 2018), a collection of poetry
- The Dragon and the Bomb (The Emma Press, January 2017), a narrative poem
- AWOL (The Emma Press, 2015), a pamphlet of epistolary poems, co-authored with John Fuller
- Raspberries for the Ferry (The Emma Press, 2014), a pamphlet of lyric poems
- '"Parabolas of love": Poetry and the Philosophy of Mathematics', review of Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry (Springer, 2018), PN Review, 258 (March-April 2021)
- 'Water Patterns', review of Angela Leighton, Spills (Carcanet, 2016), Oxford Poetry, XVI.I (2015-16)
- 'Brandishing Levers', review of Rachel Piercey, The Flower and The Plough (The Emma Press, 2013), The Oxonian Review (2013)
- Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize (2016, 2019)
- AHRC postgraduate funding (2015)
- Eric Gregory Award (2015)
- Newdigate Prize (2014)
- Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize (2014)
- Richard Selig Prize, Magdalen College (2013, 2014, 2015)
- Lawlor Prize, Magdalen College (2012)
- Gibbs Prize (2012)