I am an academic researcher in Irish studies, specialising in modern and contemporary Irish literature. I also engage with and develop literary theory, especially in poststructuralist frameworks. I have also published on William Shakespeare and early modern English drama and culture, especially in relation to modern/contemporary Irish writing. This culminated in Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature (Manchester UP, 2023), in which I articulated a new kind of intertextuality I labelled 'dismemory'. I have published on these intertextual connections in Irish Studies Review, Modern Language Review, and Cahiers Elisabéthains. Alongside Stanley van der Ziel, in 2018 I co-edited Shakespeare and  Contemporary Irish Literature (Palgrave Macmillan).

I am now researching and writing a book entitled Affirming Life and Guarding Death in John Banville's Fiction (Bloomsbury, under contract), in which I explore Banville's repeated engagement with and descriptions of dying and death across his 30+ novels. This follows my co-editing in 2020—alongside Hedwig Schwall (Leuven) and Laura Izarra (São Paulo)—of a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies (ABEI) celebrating fifty years of John Banville's publishing career. I was more recently invited to edit John Banville in Context for Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2025) with Bryan Radley (York).