Research

Modernist literature, especially Joyce; Romanticism; literature and mythology; modern fantasy, especially Tolkien; the literary influence of Wagnerian music-drama.

Publications

“Two Rings to Rule them All:  A Comparative study of Tolkien and Wagner.” Mythlore.  29.3/4 (Spring/Summer 2011):  133–53.

"'The Sea, Music and Death':  The Shadow of Wagner in Woolf's Mrs Dalloway."*  English Studies in Africa. 49.2. (2006):  83–108.

 *Received the Thomas Pringle Award for 2008.