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- 1975-78 John Doncaster Scholar in German, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 1977 Junior Heath Harrison Scholar in German, Oxford University
- 1978 B.A. (Double First) in English Language and Literature, Oxford University (MA 1982)
- 1978-82 Graduate Scholar, St Cross College, Oxford
- 1982 D.Phil in English Literature and PGCE in English, Oxford University
- 1979-83 Tutor/Lecturer in English Literature for six Colleges at Oxford University
- 1982-84 Lecturer in English, College of St Paul and St Mary, Cheltenham
- 1984-90 Lecturer in English, Lancaster University
- 1988-89 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Englisches Seminar, University of Cologne
- 1990- Professor of English, University of St Gallen
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the English Association
Selected publications: - Symbol to Vortex: Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885-1914 (New York: St Martin’s Press,1985)[UK title: Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885-1914]
- Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988)
- Imagining London, 1770-1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
- Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
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