I am a lecturer and researcher in the areas of Academic Practice and (postmodern & contemporary) Anglophone Literature, with a particular focus on post-1945 U.S. fiction and mathematics. I am a Lecturer in Academic Practice in the Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier University. I have previously taught at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and have directed the Scottish Universities International Summer School (SUISS 2021). I’m passionate about reading, thinking, and writing at intersections of art, science, and philosophy (delighting in unexpected rapprochements).

Publications

Articles & Chapters

O’Brien, Hanford, Struan and Taylor. Collaboration Across Disciplines: Graduate Teaching Assistants, Learner Developers, Students, and Academic Literacies. in Abegglen, Burns & Sinfield (eds.) Collaboration in Higher Education: A New Ecology of Practice (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Mathematics of the Infinite. David Foster Wallace In Context ed. by Clare Hayes-Brady (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Minimalism and Maximalism. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction ed. by Stephen J. Burn, Lesley Larkin, and Patrick O’Donnell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).

Mathematical Clinamen in the Encyclopedic Novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace. The Palgrave Handbook of Mathematics and Literature ed. by Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, and Nina Engelhardt (2021).

The making of Wallace’s Everything and More: an interview
with Erica Neely. Lettera Matematica International (2015).

[Featured]. The jingle jangle genius of Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. The Scotsman (15th Oct. 2016).