About Me

I’m an independent scholar and full-time educator.

I teach English language and literature in a secondary school in the UK. We teach the CIE IGCSE syllabus for Language and Literature. There was a fairly major change on the IGCSE Langauge paper this year, seemingly combining the former Paper 1 and Paper 2 into one Paper 1 for everyone. I can see this having clear benefits for many candidates, and am interested to see how students will find these changes this year. At A level, I’m familiar with the OCR English literature syllabus both as an instructor and as an assistant assessment specialist. It’s a delight to work with this exam board: its holistic approach tends to nurture the skills of the best students of English literature, and it’s a pleasure to teach.

My background is in early medieval studies. I’ve studied at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and completed my DPhil in the Department of English at the University of Oxford.