University lecturing
I am an educator with a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing, and I have taught undergraduate modules across three disciplines at York St John University. My teaching is built on the conviction that critical thinking should not be confined to academia and that storytelling is one of the most powerful tools for understanding the world — a belief I hold with the kind of certainty that makes me suspicious of certainty generally, but here we are.
English Literature & Creative Writing
Forms of Narrative
How storytelling mechanics work across novels, poetry, drama, and film.
Introduction to Literary Studies
A foundation in literary analysis, engaging with historical, theoretical, and contemporary perspectives.
Personal Development Sessions
Where students realise that academic writing and creative writing are not as different as they thought.
Media Studies
Research in Practice
Critical thinking, media research methodologies, and interdisciplinary analysis.
Mediated Identities
How media constructs race, gender, class, and cultural narratives in ways that often go unnoticed.
Life Online
An exploration of digital spaces, participatory culture, and how the internet is shaping identity faster than we can study it.
Private tutoring
I offer one-to-one academic tuition for undergraduate and postgraduate students in English Literature, Creative Writing, and Media Studies. This includes essay writing, close reading, dissertation development, research design, and exam preparation.
My approach is tailored, supportive, and built around the idea that the best tutoring doesn't just improve grades — it improves how students think about their own thinking. I have worked with students at every level of confidence, from those who arrived doubting whether they belonged at university to those who needed someone to challenge them further. The work is the same either way: meet the person where they are, take their ideas seriously, and help them find the clarity their writing is reaching for.
I work with students at A-Level and university level, online and in person.
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