Expert in English and comparative literature (English, Italian, Spanish and French)

I am a UK-based ex-academic (PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick) with a decade's experience teaching English and other literatures to adults and older teenagers. I am fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and French, and competent in the respective literatures, as well as in aesthetics and 'theory' more generally. If you want to learn how best to understand literature, you're in the right place. I have published a good deal of research, mostly in 19th-century literature, and I have taught poetry, drama, novels, stories etc. from antiquity to the present. In my classes I like to be interactive, so that it becomes more of a back-and-forth conversation whose directions you can co-pilot. I am equally comfortable teaching close reading, history and big ideas. Whatever your needs, I'll help you find your way into the subject so that you'll really _want_ to learn it.