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The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). 340 pp. 
Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize, 2022.

​'An extraordinarily comprehensive study of tramp writing [...] readable and authoritative' (The Times Literary Supplement).
'A 
fascinating and wide-ranging survey of tramp literature' (The Northern Review of Books).
'Essential reading' (Ambit Magazine).
'Full of interest and populated by wonderful and sometimes hateful figures, anecdote, humour and sadness' (The Orwell Society Journal).
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Uniquely informative and readable' (Prof. John Sutherland).
‘An absorbing study, meticulously detailed and contextualised, on an important topic' (Prof. John Goodridge).
‘Essential reading for anyone interested in the wider currents of working-class life writing and fiction' (Prof. Nick Hubble).

JOURNAL ARTICLES / BOOK CHAPTERS

“Representing the Poor: The Emergence of the ‘Point-of-View’ Mode in Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation and the Publications of Victor Gollancz Ltd.” Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.

"Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell." English Studies (2022), DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2022.2065155: 1-28.

“‘Progressing Backwards’: Rural Outsider Figures in Richard Jefferies, W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas.” English Studies DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2021.1997475 (2021): 1-26.

“Appropriating the Abject: Witchcraft in Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s Suspiria (1977) and David Kajganich and Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 Remake.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 18-1&2 (2021): 43-59.

“Precarious Living in the Films of Ken Loach” in Living with Strangers: Bedsits and Boarding-houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 145-160.

REVIEWS

“Alistair Robinson’s  Victorian Vagrancy: A Cultural History of the Wandering Poor.”  Journal of Victorian Culture (2022): Web. 23 May 2022.

​“Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use.” European Journal of American Studies 2017-2: Web. 1 Aug. 2017.

“Luke Seaber’s Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature.” George Orwell Society Journal 11 (2016): 30-37.

“Robert Colls’ George Orwell: English Rebel.” George Orwell Studies 1 (2016): 112-121.