Core expertise
Romanticism
Victorian literature
Anglo-Irish literature
Classical reception
Tragedy
The Gothic
Orientalism
Narrative non-fiction
Biography
Chris is a a specialist in British Romanticism, with particular interests in Orientalism, Irish studies, and the reception of the classical tradition. Primarily, he works on the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. He's also drawn to 19th-century interdisciplinarity, particularly the relation of literary texts to material culture, and is an author of narrative non-fiction.
