Subjects
I work in most humanities and social science subjects, including:
- anthropology
- archaeology
- art and art history
- Asian studies (especially south-east Asia)
- biblical studies and theology
- biography
- children’s literature
- Christianity
- communication (media) studies
- cultural studies
- diaries/letters
- dictionaries
- education
- English and world literature
- film and theatre
- geography (human)
- history
- literary criticism and theory
- literary fiction (incl. scholarly editions)
- literary history
- museum studies
- philosophy
- politics
- popular science
- sociology
A selection of books I have worked on
See also my Portfolio page.
Anthropology
A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, ed. Antonius C. G. M. Robben (Wiley Blackwell, 2018)
A Companion to Moral Anthropology, ed. Didier Fassin (Wiley Blackwell, 2012)
Ghosts of Memory, ed. Janet Carsten (Wiley Blackwell, 2007)
A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology, ed. Riall Nolan (Wiley Blackwell, 2013)
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader, ed. Mark Goodale (Wiley Blackwell, 2008)
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 12 vols, ed. Hillary Callan (Wiley Blackwell, 2018)
Art and art history
The Bible as Visual Culture, by John Harvey (Sheffield Academic Press, 2013)
A Companion to Aesthetics, 2nd edn, ed. Stephen Davies et al. (Wiley Blackwell, 2009)
Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, ed. Richard Hickman (Wiley Blackwell, 2019)
Christianity, biblical studies and theology
Contemplative Prayer, by David Foster (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015)
Love Means Love: Same-Sex Relationships and the Bible, by David Runcorn (SPCK, 2020)
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul, by Mark Oakley (SPCK, 2019)
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, ed. Bonnie Miller-McLemore (Wiley Blackwell, 2011)
Communication studies
Dictionary of Media & Communication, 2nd edn, by Daniel Chandler & Rod Munday (OUP, 2016)
The Ethical Journalist, 2nd edn, by Gene Foreman (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, ed. Robin Mansell & Peng Hwa Ang (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)
Cultural studies
The Art of Advertising, by Julie Anne Lambert (Bodleian Library, 2019)
Maps and the 20th Century, ed. Tom Harper (British Library, 2016)
The Modern American Metropolis, ed. David Freund (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)
The Revision of Englishness, ed. David Rogers & John McLeod (Manchester University Press, 2004)
Talking Maps, by Jerry Brotton & Nick Millea (Bodleian Library, 2019)
Film and theatre
Andrew Davies, by Sarah Cardwell (Manchester University Press, 2005)
A Companion to Jean Renoir, ed. Alastair Phillips & Ginette Vincendeau (Wiley Blackwell, 2013)
Improvisation in Drama, 2nd edn, by Anthony Frost & Ralph Yarrow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Geography
The International Encyclopedia of Geography, 15 vols, ed. Douglas B. Richardson (Wiley Blackwell, 2017)
History
A Brief History of the Bodleian Library, by Mary Clapinson (Bodleian Library, 2020)
A Companion to African History, ed. William Worger (Wiley Blackwell, 2018)
The Dawning of American Labor, by Brian Greenberg (Wiley Blackwell, 2017)
European Overseas Empire, 1879–1999, by Matthew Stanard (Wiley Blackwell, 2018)
A History of America in 100 Maps, by Susan Schulten (British Library, 2018)
Islamic Maps, by Yossef Rapaport (Bodleian Library, 2019)
Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia, by Annabel Teh Gallop (National University of Singapore Press/University of Chicago Press, 2019)
Oxford University: A Brief History, by Laurence Brockliss (Bodleian Library, 2016)
Picturing India, by John McAleer (British Library, 2017)
Letters
Byron’s Letters and Journals: A New Selection, ed. Richard Lansdown (OUP, 2015)
Jane Austen’s Letters, 4th edn, ed. Deirdre Le Faye (OUP, 2011)
Wittgenstein in Cambridge, ed. Brian McGuinness (Wiley Blackwell, 2008)
Literature and literary studies
A Companion to Virginia Woolf, ed. Jessica Berman (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, 3 vols, ed. Michael Ryan (Wiley Blackwell, 2011)
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 vols, ed. Brian Shaffer (Wiley Blackwell, 2011)
A Guide to Old English, 7th edn, ed. Bruce Mitchell & Fred C. Robinson (Blackwell, 2007)
The Life of Robert Frost, by Henry Hart (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
The Strong Spirit: Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce, by Andrew Gibson (OUP, 2013)
Victory, by Joseph Conrad (Oxford World’s Classics, OUP, 2004)
Writing British Muslims, by Rehana Ahmed (Manchester University Press, 2015)
Museum studies
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, ed. Sharon Macdonald & Helen Rees Leahy (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)
Philosophy
The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature, by P. M. S. Hacker (Wiley Blackwell, 2020)
Western Philosophy: An Anthology, ed. John Cottingham (Blackwell, 2007)
Poetry
Clay: Themes and Variations from Ancient Mesopotamia, by Paul Williamson (Festival O/Modernt)
Ekphrasis: Serra, by Paul Williamson (Festival O/Modernt, 2014)
Six London Preludes, by Paul Williamson (Festival O/Modernt, 2017)
Politics
Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics, ed. Mike Ekers et al. (Wiley Blackwell, 2012)
Making Sense of Human Rights, by James Nickel (Blackwell, 2006)
Peace and Justice: Seeking Accountability after War, by Rachel Kerr & Eirin Mobekk (Polity Press, 2007)
Popular science
Cows in the Maze, by Ian Stewart (OUP, 2010)
Curious Creatures, by Chris Thorogood (Bodleian Library, 2019)
Mind Change, by Susan Greenfield (Rider Books, 2014)
Spitting Blood: A History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum (OUP, 2012)
Reference
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary, by David Crystal & Ben Crystal (OUP, 2015)
Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary (OUP, 2018)
Oxford Primary Dictionary (OUP, 2018)
Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary (OUP, 2016)
Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins, 2nd edn (OUP, 2009)
Oxford School Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Dictionary (OUP, 2014)
Sociology
Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, ed. Stephen Hupp & Jeremy Jewell (Wiley, 2019)
The New Politics of Home, by Eleanor Jupp et al. (Policy Press, 2019)
Social Divisions, by Geoff Payne & Eric Harrison (Policy Press, 2020)
Social Innovation, by Geoff Mulgan (Policy Press, 2019)
Tea and the Queen? by Carol Vincent (Policy Press, 2019)
