Iris is a Lecturer in English at Lincoln College, Oxford having previously taught at University College (as well as briefer stints at Oriel College and Christchurch College). She teaches Prelims Papers 3 (Literature in English, 1830-1910 and 4 (Literature in English, 1910-Present), and is Organising Tutor for the first-year cohort.
Iris has supervised undergraduate 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 has designed and delivered workshops, seminars and tutorials for various outreach programmes at Balliol College, Oxford, focused on topics ranging from Cold War literature to detective fiction to Imagism; she has contributed to the English Faculty’s Ten-Minute Book Club with an entry about George Meredith’s Modern Love.
Iris 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.