I teach in the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Wellington. I’m a critic and literary historian, and read, write and teach about New Zealand literature. I’m also a member of Te Hautū Kahurangi | The Tertiary Education Union.

My books are:

Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa (edited with Anna Jackson and Robert Sullivan, 2025)

Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature (2024)

Futility and Anarchy: British Literature in Transition 1920 - 1940 (edited with Charles Ferrall, 2018)

Harry Holland, Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist (I was the editor of this; it’s Holland’s book, really, not mine, 2016)

Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (with Charles Ferrall, 2015)

Forecasts of the Past: Globalisation, History, Realism, Utopia (2012)

The Many Lives of Galileo: Brecht, Theatre, and Translation’s Political Unconscious (2005)