I teach and research English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where I specialise in the Romantic period. My publications include Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (1997), a study of the relationship between literature and walking, and Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel (2012), which explores the impact of travel books about North America on the reading public. In recent years my research has focused more on Romanticism's links with Bristol and the South West.