Throwing Away the Master’s Tools: Into the Neuroqueer

A LEAP workshop introducing neuroqueer theory through Nick Walker’s work.

Special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication

Neurodivergence as a culture, and communication across neurotypes as intercultural exchange.

‘I Dwell in Possibility’: Emily Dickinson’s Affective Ecologies

poetry@leeds, University of Leeds.

(Mis)interpretation and Performative Misfires: Autistic Communication in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Argues that Coriolanus is pathologised by depth-based reading, both within the play and in its criticism, and that surface reading offers a reparative alternative.

What’s the Matter with Ralph Pendrel? Autistic Attention in Henry James’s The Sense of the Past

On attention, lateness and queer time in James’s unfinished final novel.

To Fill a Gap: Neuroqueering Emily Dickinson’s Silences

Reads Dickinson’s gaps and silences through a neuroqueer lens.

Listening Beyond Words

School of Education, University of Leeds. A project on non-normative modes of communication, which treats neurodivergent communication as valid and asks how we might build the tools to read it.

‘I Dwell in Possibility’: Emily Dickinson’s Affective Ecologies

poetry@leeds, University of Leeds.

NeMLA 2026, Pittsburgh

Neuroqueering Aesthetics panel. A paper from my Coriolanus chapter.

The art of homebuilding

Blending luxury design with the precision of commercial development, Salt Shed delivers dream homes with confidence and assurance.

Rooting for the future

From tree-saving barriers to cutting-edge grouting technology, Mainmark’s eco-engineering solutions set the standard for sustainability.

Rising to the challenge

Innovative products and strategic expansion drive Stiltz Lifts to new heights in the home mobility industry.

Wall-to-wall excellence

From drylining to facades, TudorMay masters the art of seamless and sustainable growth.

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

Throwing Away the Master’s Tools: Into the Neuroqueer

An introduction to neuroqueer theory through Nick Walker’s work. Participants read Dickinson’s “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!” and a scene from Don Quixote through two lenses at once, disrupting heteronormativity and reading for autistic language using Julia Miele Rodas’s autism poetics.

Writing mentoring for postgraduate researchers

One-to-one writing mentoring and Research and Write sessions for postgraduate researchers.

Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, The Handmaid’s Tale, Never Let Me Go, The Bell Jar, Paradise Lost, Poems of the Decade

PhD, English

“Autism and the Canon: Toward a Neurodivergent Theory of Reading.” Supervisor: Dr Denis Flannery.

MA, English Literature

Distinction. Dissertation on second-person narration in Hamid, Aliu and Calvino.

BA, English and Comparative Literary Study

First Class.

Norfolk Scholar Award