Academic Services
I offer literary teaching, guest lectures, and small-group seminars for universities, schools, cultural organisations, and independent learning communities.
University Teaching
Teaching in literature through close reading, historical context, critical discussion, and sustained engagement with texts.
Guest Lectures
Lectures that introduce literary fields, authors, texts, and critical questions through accessible and rigorous scholarly inquiry.
Literary Seminars
Small-group literary study centred on close reading, discussion, and sustained engagement with particular texts and traditions.
University Teaching
Literature teaching for universities, colleges, and educational institutions.
literature through close reading, historical context, and critical discussion
My approach combines literary history, critical theory, and attentive reading while encouraging students to develop their own interpretations through discussion and analysis.
Teaching may include:
Undergraduate Literature Seminar
Intensive Reading Sessions
Literary Theory Seminars
Close Reading Workshops
Curriculum Support for Literature Programmes
Special Lectures on African Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Ecocriticism, and Related Areas
Each session is developed around the needs of the institution, course, or cohort.
Guest Lectures
Literature guest lectures for universities, conferences, schools, and cultural organisations
lectures combine close reading, historical context, and critical inquiry
My lectures may introduce a field of study, explore a particular author or text, or examine broader questions in literary history, criticism, and culture.
Lecture topics may include:
Close Reading as a Literary Practice
Reading the Literary Classics Today
African Literature and World Literature
Postcolonial Literature
Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities
Literary Interpretation & Critical Theory
Independent Literary Study
Additional topics can be developed in consultation with the host institution.
Literary Seminars
Small-group seminars built around close reading, literary discussion, and sustained engagement with texts
study literature together through careful reading, shared inquiry, and thoughtful discussion
Each seminar is organised around a particular text, author, theme, or literary tradition, combining close reading with historical context, literary analysis, and conversation.
Seminar themes may include:
Reading the Literary Classics
African Literature
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Literary Theory in Practice
Close Reading Workshops
Nature, Place & Environmental Writing
The Short Story
Seminar formats can be single intensive seminar, short seminar series, multi-week reading programme.