On this page I aim to share as many of my teaching materials as possible. It’s still a work in progress and I’m working backwards year by year.
[N.B. Current students should use the current teaching materials available to them through the University as these will be more up-to-date / relevant to the courses as they are delivered]
2021-2022
- Victoria’s Secrets: Secrecy and Literature in the Nineteenth Century, seminars and workshops for second and third year undergraduates (course convenor). You can see the current schedule here.
- Foundations of English Literature, lectures for first year undergraduates
- Victorian New Media, seminars for MA students (course convenor). You can see the current schedule here.
- Victorian Literature, lectures for c200 second-year undergraduates (convenor).
2020-2021
- Victoria’s Secrets: Secrecy and Literature in the Nineteenth Century, seminars and workshops for second and third year undergraduates (course convenor)
- Foundations of English Literature, lectures for first year undergraduates
- Victorian New Media, seminars for MA students (course convenor).
- Victorian Literature, seminars and lectures for c200 second-year undergraduates (convenor).
2019-2020
[I was on leave in semester two of this academic year]
- Victoria’s Secrets: Secrecy and Literature in the Nineteenth Century, seminars and workshops for second and third year undergraduates (course convenor)
- Prose: Reading and Interpretation, lectures and seminars for first-year undergraduates.
2018-2019
- Victorian New Media, seminars for MA students, (course convenor).
- Victorian Literature, seminars and lectures for second-year undergraduates (convenor).
- Victoria’s Secrets: Secrecy and Literature in the Nineteenth Century’, seminars and workshops for second and third year undergraduates (course convenor)
- Prose: Reading and Interpretation, lectures and seminars for first-year undergraduates.
2017-2018
- Victoria’s Secrets. This is a revised version of the module. The syllabus is here.
- Prose. This is a first year core module at the University of Leeds. The catalogue entry is here.
- Text is a Technology. This is a new option module open to second and final year undergraduates. The syllabus is here.
- Victorian Literature. I convened this second-year core module. The catalogue entry is here.
- Victorian New Media. I convened and taught this MA module this year. The syllabus is here.
2016-2017
- Victoria’s Secrets. This is a revised version of the module and the syllabus is here. The catalogue entry is here.
- Prose. This is a first year core module at the University of Leeds. The catalogue entry is here.
- Beyond the Book: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities. This is an option module open to second and final year undergraduates. The syllabus is here. The catalogue entry is here.
- Victorian Literature. I convened this second-year core module. The catalogue entry is here.
- Victorian New Media. This is an MA module that I co-teach with Richard Salmon. The catalogue entry is here.
2015-2016
[I was on leave this year so did not do any teaching aside from the odd lecture]
2014-2015
- Victoria’s Secrets. This is a new version of the module and the syllabus is available here. The catalogue entry is here.
- Prose. This is a first year core module at the University of Leeds. The catalogue entry is here.
- Beyond the Book: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities. This is an option module open to second and final year undergraduates. The syllabus is here.
- Victorian Literature. This is a second-year core module. The catalogue entry is here
2013-2014
- Victorian Literature. This is core module running twice this year: in semester one for final years; in semester two for second years. The catalogue entry is here
- Victoria’s Secrets. I’ve revised this module for teaching at Leeds. The 2013-2014 syllabus is here. The catalogue entry is here.
- Beyond the Book: Textuality after the World Wide Web. This is an option module running in semester two. The syllabus is here.
2012-2013
- Hacking the Book (module co-convenor). This is now a second-year undergraduate module that provides a theoretical and practical introductrion to the digital humanities. I co-teach the course with Oliver Mason. You can see the syllabus here.
- Victoria’s Secrets (module convenor). This is a third-year undergraduate module exploring the different ways secrecy informs the literature of the nineteenth century. This year’s syllabus is here.
- Writing and the World (module convenor). This is a second-year undergraduate module that introduces students to the range of writing from the nineteenth century.
- Literary Aesthetics After 1800. This is a new first-year module, part of our new undergraduate curriculum in English
- Critical Practice. This is a also a new first-year module, focusing on study skills and methodology.
- Victorian Modernity (module convenor). This is a postgraduate module on the MA English and MRes Literature and Modernity.
2011-2012
- Hacking the Book (module co-convenor). This is a third-year undergraduate module that provides a theoretical and practical introductrion to the digital humanities. The syllabus is here. I wrote a blog post for JVC Online about the first year of this course here.
- Victoria’s Secrets (module convenor). This is a third-year undergraduate module exploring the different ways secrecy informs the literature of the nineteenth century. The syllabus is here.
- Writing and the World (module convenor). This is a second-year undergraduate module that introduces students to the range of writing from the nineteenth century.
- Victorian Modernity (module convenor). This is a postgraduate module on the MA English and MRes Literature and Modernity.
I also teach on a number of other modules as required.