Iris has taught on a range of subjects within twentieth-century and contemporary literature. She has taught classes and tutorials on magical realism, and supervised dissertations on the modern gothic, novelistic violence and Angela Carter. 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. 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. She is the current Waynflete Academic in English at Magdalen College School, and Teaching Assistant for an Oxford undergraduate course on ‘Possibilities of Criticism’.