I offer tuition on English Literature at GCSE, GCE Advanced and undergraduate levels.

I have a first class BA (Hons) in English Literature from Cardiff University and I'm the author of the book Studying Poetry, which is written for A level and beginning undergraduate students and has been in print now for well over a decade.

I am especially strong on intellectual context and enjoy working with students to shed light on a text through contemporary influences from painting, music, architecture, politics and philosophy as well as developing an understanding of an author's sources and influences.

My areas of particular strength are

• Chaucer
• Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
• Seventeenth century poetry (e.g. Marvell, Donne, Herrick, Milton, Dryden)
• English and German Romanticism (not German language)
• The realist novel (e.g. Eliot, Dickens)
• Victorian poetry (e.g. Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, Hopkins, Hardy)
• Modernism (e.g. T S Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Woolf)
• Surrealism, Dada and other post-war avant gardes
• Postmodernism and the contemporary novel

I also have a strong background in literary theory including

• New criticism
• Structuralism (Saussure, Levi-Strauss)
• Semiotics (Peirce, Barthes)
• Psychoanalysis (Freud, Jung, Lacan, Guattari)
• Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur)
• Poststructuralism (Derrida)
• Postmodernism (Lyotard, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Zizek)
• Feminism (Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous)
• Marxism (Marx, Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno, Althusser)

These are indicative subjects only -- let me know if you need help with something different.