Refereed journal articles and chapters in books

'Gender in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings' in Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as Children's Literature: a New Casebook. Ed. Peter Hunt. (Invited publication: London: Palgrave, forthcoming 2013).

'Arboreal Myths: Dryadic Transformations and Children's Literature' in Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood. Eds. Ingo Gildenhard & Andrew Zissos. Modern Humanities Research Association Publication. (Oxford: Legenda, forthcoming 2013).

'States of Nature in His Dark Materials and Harry Potter.' Topic 57 (2012), 1-16.

'Alice's Moral Wonderland: Lewis Carroll and Animal Ethics.' Working Papers in Victorian Studies 10 (2008), 74-87.

'Nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves': Evolutionary Theory and Free Will in Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies' in An Invitation to Explore: New International Perspectives on Children's Literature. Eds. Elizabeth Thiel et al. (London: Pied Piper Publishing, 2008. 85-99.)

Monographs and scholarly editions

Children's Literature and the Posthuman. (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2014).

Lewis Carroll's Alice: A Publishing History. Co-authored with Eugene Giddens. (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming 2013).

Conference/seminar papers and presentations

'Trouble in Greenhouse Three: Comedy and Ecology in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series.' The Fantastic Ridiculous. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida. 16-20 March 2011.

'Embowering Female Sexuality in Children's Literature.' Myths of Transformation. University of Durham. 25-27 September 2008.

'Alice's Moral Wonderland: Lewis Carroll and Animal Ethics.' Victorian Ethics. Leeds Trinity and All Saints. 15 March 2008.

'Evolution, Fairy-tale Narrative and Free-Will in Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies.' The Child and the Book: Children's Literature from the Past to the Future. Newcastle University. 10 April, 2006.

Conferences organised

Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: A Bicentennial Celebration. Co-organiser (with Dr Valerie Purton). 17 October 2009. Anglia Ruskin University. Keynote Speakers: Professor Dame Gillian Beer and Professor George Levine.