Brigid

Top rated teacher and lecturer at elite institutions, Oxford Doctorate, Cambridge Fellowship.

I am an academic of international standing, and a very experienced teacher of English Literature, which I first taught while studying for my doctorate at Oxford. I went on to a full lectureship at the University of Sheffield, where my many hundreds of students rated my teaching - in lectures, seminars and small groups - as excellent, and then to Cambridge, where I was a Fellow of Trinity College, the UK's top academic institution, with more nobel laureates than any other, alongside several of whom I lived and worked. As well as publishing books and research articles, I have contributed to many literary companions and encycopedias read by thousands of students. I am now a novelist and poet, and understand how literature works from the point of view of someone who makes it.

I am an engaging, passionate, erudite, systematic and reassuring teacher. I have always been a star student, achieving straight As at school, and achieving the highest marked arts degree across the whole university at BA: I am master of my subject, and of how to demonstrate this mastery in assessments at all levels.

Tutoring Experience

I tutored Oxford and International students in the following papers for various Oxford Colleges (Corpus Christi, Somerville, Jesus, Lincoln, St Catherine’s, Worcester, Harris Manchester): Victorian Literature, Critical Commentary, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Early nineteenth-century fiction, Victorian fiction, Fin de Siècle fiction in English, Modernist fiction in English, Shakespeare, Jacobean Theatre. At Sheffield I lectured broadly on Victorian literature and Romanticism, as well as on Eighteenth Century Fiction, Modernism, American Drama, Poetry and the way it works, Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, Katherine Mansfield, and on style in prose and poetry. I taught my own course on feeling in fiction. I also ran seminars on Shakespeare, literary theory, eighteenth century literature and critical reading. I designed and taught an MA programme on Victorian Literature and Culture. At Cambridge I tutored in English accross the whole span of literature in English from the Renaissance onwards.

Tutoring Approach

My teaching is all about showing my students how to love what they are reading, and how to understand what makes it special. I am passionate about what I teach, and believe that passion is key to learning.

On the other hand, I have never got anything other than a top mark in any exam in my life, and know how to convert passion into top grades in a systematic and reliable way.