• PhD in American Literary and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  Thesis title: ‘Gender, Film, and Culture in the Novels and Screenwriting of  William Faulkner’

• MSt in English Literature 1900–present, Oxford University, UK

• BA (Hons) in English Literature, Durham University, UK
  

• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature

• Modernism

• Classical Hollywood

• Gender and Queer Studies

• Transnational Literature and Culture

• Narratology

current semester: course descriptions

2018

New media

Collaborative Editor with Johannes Burgers and John Corrigan. Adaptation of  Faulkner’s The Mansion for The Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY) Project (2018).

http://hero.village.virginia.edu/~rwb3y/faulkner/

2017

Journal article

‘William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun and Cold War Hollywood Melodrama.’ Genre 50:3 (December 2017): 343–70.

2016

Journal articles

‘Reading for Data: Temporal Speed Shifts in Faulkner's “Death Drag” and the Process of Textual Digitization.’ Studies in American Culture 39:1 (October 2016): 7–20. Lead article in issue and recipient of Jerome Stern Award.

‘Inscrutable Images: Wartime Noir and the Compson Appendix.’ The Faulkner Journal, special issue on ‘Faulkner and noir’, 28:1 (Spring 2016): 55–77.

Book chapter

'Dangerous Quests: Transgressive Sexualities in William Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms” and James Baldwin’s Another Country.’ Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2013. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.