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  • 2024: ‘The Brontës and Neo-Victorianism: The Afterlives of Wuthering Heights and the Legacy of Wide Sargasso Sea; or, Reading Race, Identity and Violence in Caryl Philip’s The Lost Child and Michael Stewart’s Ill Will’, in D Wynne and A Regis (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës (forthcoming, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
  • 2022: ‘“She resolutely refuses to see a doctor”: Re-reading Emily Brontë and Tuberculosis in 1848; Or Charlotte Brontë, Sickness and Correspondence’, Women’s Writing, 29(4), 566–582.
  • 2022: (with Sarah E. Fanning), ‘Bad or mad?: Branwell Brontë, mental health, and alcoholism in Sally Wainwright's To Walk Invisible’, in J Taddeo, K Byrne, and J Leggott (eds), Diagnosing history: Medicine in television period drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • 2020:  ‘Pronouns are Problematic: The Trans* Body and Gender Theory; Or, Revisiting the Neo-Victorian Wo/Man’, Neo-Victorian Studies 13:1(2020), 75-99.
  • “‘He is rather peculiar, perhaps”: Jane Eyre in a Queer Context; or, reading Mr Rochester’s coarseness queerly’, Brontë Studies (2018), 44:1, pp. 123-135.
  • '"A poet, a solitary": Emily Brontë – Queerness, Quietness and Solitude, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (2018), 134, pp. 204-217.
  • ‘Killing the Angel: Violence and Victim-blaming in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’, Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond, ed. by Barbara Leonardi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 297-320. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96770-7_13
  • Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics (2017, Bloomsbury)

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