Teaching

Iris currently holds a Junior College Lectureship at University College, where she will be teaching Prelims Paper 4 (Literature in English, 1910-Present). She also supervises / has supervised dissertations on a range of twentieth-century and contemporary literature, including the modern gothic, novelistic violence, and Angela Carter. She has acted as Teaching Assistant for an optional undergraduate module entitled ‘Possibilities of Criticism’. She designs and delivers workshops, seminars and tutorials for various outreach programmes at Balliol College, Oxford, focused on topics ranging from Cold War literature to detective fiction.

Outside the university, Iris is the Waynflete Academic at Magdalen College School, where she runs an extra-curricular reading group and assists with the school’s English Society.

She has lectured on metafiction for an independent Summer School programme, taught a week-long set of classes on “Oxford” (-authored or -set) literature for a visiting New York school, and a two-week intensive Summer School programme on the short story form.