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I am a senior lecturer in English Literature, with a particular research interest in British and other European literature of the Romantic period. I am particularly interested in the religious, philosophical and scientific dimensions of Romantic thought, the transition between Romanticism and modernism, as well as the various afterlives of Romantic thought in the postmodern era.

My doctoral thesis reexamined the treatment of sense perception in the works of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, arguing that the two poets' works can be seen as staging a dialogue between two mutually incompatible habits of perception, with Coleridge experiencing perception as metaphysically divisive and Wordsworth experiencing it as metaphysically unifying. I concluded that this dialogue represents a radical attempt to combine transcendent values with an intuitive connection to real objects, one that in many ways problematizes the conventional reading of Romanticism as an 'inward turn.'