I am a researcher, writer, and teacher on gender and masculinity in American and World Literatures.

I am currently working on a book project for Routledge on beards and masculinity in American literary history.

Previously, I was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland (2015-2017). My project focused on the transnational flâneur and masculinity in early American Literature.

My PhD thesis (Queen's University Belfast, 2013) was published as Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction with Routledge in 2015.

I have published a range of articles on such topics as New York flâneurs, Freud and masculinity, fatherhood, and the sociological value of studying men and masculinities.