I teach on the Humanities strand of the Integrated Foundation Degree.

I teach on the Humanities strand of the Integrated Foundation Degree. I am currently undertaking doctoral research on nineteenth-century German migration to Britain, but have a wide range of academic interests, including rhetoric/composition studies, applied linguistics, and, more recently, a burgeoning interest in the environmental humanities and ecocritical approaches to literature. I have published in academic journals and have recently guest edited a special issue of Journal of Academic Writing. 

My own background and educational history make me a firm believer in both learning for life and improving access to higher education: certainly, had the Foundation Degree existed in the late 90s when I was a somewhat out-of-depth undergraduate, I would have signed up very quickly indeed! 

As well as being a university teacher with over fifteen years of classroom experience, I like to write and edit. When I am not fulfilling my other passion of running, I enjoy reading difficult texts, and communicating in my two foreign languages, German and Polish. I am currently learning Welsh.