Iris is currently a Lecturer in English at both University College and Lincoln College, Oxford. She teaches Prelims Papers 3 (Literature in English, 1830-1910 and 4 (Literature in English, 1910-Present). She 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 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.