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Research Interests
My research interests are in cultural and historical geography and concern
the represented and material geographies of popular culture, largely in
the UK and US. I have two main areas of interest.
The first concerns literary representations of space, particularly in non-realist genres (science fiction, horror, ghost stories, utopias, etc). As well as editing a collection on geographies of science fiction with Rob Kitchin. I have written about William Gibson, H. P. Lovecraft, M. John Harrison, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood and I am currently interested in Maureen Duffy, Iain M. Banks and Kim Stanley Robinson, amongst other writers. I have developed some of this work through visits to the University of Tokyo in 2005 and 2007 as a visiting researcher.
The second concerns historical and contemporary geographies of drink and drunkenness. I have published on nineteenth- and twentieth-century
constructions of drink as a spatial problem, and on the parallels between historical and contemporary policy, popular and medical discussions of binge-drinking. Recently my interests have turned to the relationship between insurance and drink, working with Dr Shaun French at the University of Nottingham. I am a member of the ESRC's network on Intoxicants and Intoxication in Cultural and Historical Perspective and have contributed to two radio
programmes on the historical parallels of current drinking practices.
I'm a member of the Department's Cities and Urbanization and Environment, Landscape and Society research groups and was Secretary of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG from 2003-2006, and a Committee member from 1999-2003. For further informatiion on this research group click here.
The first concerns literary representations of space, particularly in non-realist genres (science fiction, horror, ghost stories, utopias, etc). As well as editing a collection on geographies of science fiction with Rob Kitchin. I have written about William Gibson, H. P. Lovecraft, M. John Harrison, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood and I am currently interested in Maureen Duffy, Iain M. Banks and Kim Stanley Robinson, amongst other writers. I have developed some of this work through visits to the University of Tokyo in 2005 and 2007 as a visiting researcher.
The second concerns historical and contemporary geographies of drink and drunkenness. I have published on nineteenth- and twentieth-century
constructions of drink as a spatial problem, and on the parallels between historical and contemporary policy, popular and medical discussions of binge-drinking. Recently my interests have turned to the relationship between insurance and drink, working with Dr Shaun French at the University of Nottingham. I am a member of the ESRC's network on Intoxicants and Intoxication in Cultural and Historical Perspective and have contributed to two radio
programmes on the historical parallels of current drinking practices.
I'm a member of the Department's Cities and Urbanization and Environment, Landscape and Society research groups and was Secretary of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG from 2003-2006, and a Committee member from 1999-2003. For further informatiion on this research group click here.
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