• Reader in Rhetoric, University of Sussex

I research the ways that people argued about ideas and politics in the past.

A cultural historian of nineteenth century Britain and America, I am interested in how debates about speaking and education from this period can inform contemporary policy issues.

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• 2024–present Associate Professor in Rhetoric, University of Sussex

• 2010 University of Cambridge, English / American History
• 2004 Harvard University, Kennedy Scholarship in American History

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