I am mainly employed in a teaching capacity as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, teaching English Literature and the Arts. I am digital dissemination officer for the Department of English Studies at Durham University, developing the impact of research through Research English At Durham.
Previously I have worked as a course developer at SIM University, a distance learning institution for which I have written and developed textbooks and online courses on Modernism, American, and contemporary literature. I have also taught at the University of Sunderland.
As a researcher, I have published a number of articles and book chapters on postmodern literature, science fiction, and video games and literature.
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Like the ship in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, The Pequod is a haphazard collection of parts, representing the various voyages in my intellectual and creative life as an academic and writer.
This site presents many of my essays and blog posts about literature, as well as comment and thought on culture, travel and politics. It also includes my extensive book reviews. My current research is in computer games and literature.
The Pequod is the ship which features in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick.
When I first read and wrote about Moby Dick as an English Literature undergraduate, I felt an immediate affinity with the experience of Ishmael, who feels swamped by information in his bibliographical attempt to uncover the myth of the white whale.
So as the ship in Moby Dick is a "cannibal of a craft," apparelled with the antiquities and trophies from its many voyages, it seemed an appropriate model for this website, which collects the various experiences and writing I have achieved on the "voyages" of my learning, but which also represents a thousand other paths I have yet to travel in my intellectual researches.
According to my big brother over at Statcounter, a substantial number of vistors arrive here searching for the meaning and origin of The Pequod. In response to these questions, you may find the following information helpful:
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This page was published on June 25, 2008 | Keywords: about, accessibility, biography, web development
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