Christopher is an Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching.

He teaches Literature within the School of Creative Arts and is a Learning and Teaching Specialist in the Centre for Learning, Access, and Student Success. He joined the University in January 2016.

Chris' research interests include: contemporary US literature; cultures of the US South; cultural memory; queer studies; Black studies; inclusive pedagogy; diversification and 'decolonisation' within HE; and ungrading.

Christopher welcomes PhD proposals on any aspect of the above research fields.

Christopher is the author of two monographs: 

• Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
• Corporeal Legacies in the US South: Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

He is also the co-editor of:

• The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies, with Hilary Emmett (Routledge, 2023)
• The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, with Loïc Bourdeau (EUP, forthcoming 2025)

He is also working on a third monograph called A Queer Bestiary: The Non/Human in Contemporary US Literature.

Chris has also published a poetry pamphlet:

• Pick Up Your Feelings (Fourteen Poems 2024)

He has also published stories, poems, and essays in bath magg, Kith Books, annie journal, And Other Poems, Dust, PERVERSE, Fruit Journal, and elsewhere. 

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Chris is also the host, producer and editor of two podcasts: Diversifying and Decolonising the University, and Books Up Close: The Podcast. The latter grew out of his existing YouTube channel.

Doctoral Supervision:

• Stevie Kilgour, Creative Writing (2019-2023) - published with Broken Sleep Books.
• Sara de Souza, Education (2020-) 
• Tionne Parris, History (2022-) - winner of Bloomsbury Academic Writing Felowship.

I teach introductory modules to literary studies as well as about US literature and culture at all levels.