Publications
Books
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television. Routledge, 2024. Purchase.
The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Purchase.
Women in Revolutionary Debate: Female Novelists from Burney to Austen. HES & De Graaf, 2012. Purchase.
Edited Collections
With Tony Cousins and Dani Napton. The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period. Peter Lang, 2011. Purchase.
Book Chapters (last 5 years only)
"Huzzah! Anachronism and the 18th-Century Weird in The Great". In The 18th Century Today: Literature and Media from Beauty and the Beast to Bridgerton, edited by Madeleine Pelling and Emrys D. Jones. Bloomsbury, 2026. Purchase.
"I am Artemisia: Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's Blood Water Paint". In Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography to Biofiction, edited by James Fitzmaurice, Naomi Miller and Sara Jayne Steen. Routledge, 2025. Purchase.
"The Jesus Biofiction in the Twenty-First Century". In The Routledge Companion to Biofiction, edited by Lucia Boldrini, Laura Cernat, Alexandre Gefen and Michael Lackey. Routledge, 2025. Purchase.
"Medievalism or Tudorism? Ambivalence and the past in nineteenth-century representations of Anne Boleyn". In Medievalism and Reception, edited by Ellie Crookes and Ika Willis. Boydell & Brewer, 2024. Purchase,
"Three or four families in a RPG: gaming and Jane Austen". In The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts, edited by Joe Bray and Hannah Moss. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Purchase.
"The Great English Queen-Off: Lady Jane Grey and Mary I in historical fiction". In Mid-Tudor Queenship and memory: the making and remaking of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, edited by Valerie Schutte and Jessica Hower. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Purchase.
"Anne Boleyn, Tudor Vampire". In Gothic Mash-Ups: hybridity, approximation, and intertextuality in Gothic storytelling, edited by Natalie Neill. Bloomsbury, 2023. Purchase.
"Shipping Anne/Henry: love in Tudor historical romances". In The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love, edited by Ann Brooks. Routledge, 2022. Purchase.
"These old shades: Georgette Heyer's Unruly Eighteenth Century". In The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love, edited by Ann Brooks. Routledge, 2022. Purchase.
"Still Bloody Mary: Mary I in Historical Fiction". In Writing Mary I: History, historiography, and fiction, edited by Valerie Schutte and Jessica Hower. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Purchase.
"The literary afterlives of the Tudor consorts". In Tudor and Stuart consorts: power, influence, and dynasty, edited by Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J. L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Purchase.
Special Issues of Journals
With Jerome de Groot. "The Anachronistic Turn". Clio 51.2 (2024).
"Representing Queens". Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 39.1 (2022).
"Representing Queens". Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 37.2 (2022).
Journal Articles (last five years only)
"Wild Thoughts: Emily Bronte in Contemporary Biofiction". Bronte Studies 51.1 (2026): 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2025.2581084
"Biofiction and Fictional Metabiography in Richard Beard's Lazarus is Dead". a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 39.1: 407-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2286152.
"Our Flag Means Death: piracy, workplace comedy, and queer time". Clio 51.2 (2024): 133-150.
"Divorced, Beheaded, Live in Concert: race-ing Henry VIII's queens in Six". S&F Online: the Scholar and Feminist Online. 18.1 (2022). Full-text available here.
Journal Editorials
Interviews
Videos
For a full list of publications, please see here.
Upcoming Titles: Contemporary Counterfactual Fictions