Organization The Conversation

Merton College, Oxford (fellow)

St Hugh's College, Oxford (fixed-term tutorial fellow | English | 1986)

Open University (lecturer in literature | 1986-1990)

Trinity College, Oxford (Stirling Boyd fellow in English literature | 1990-2003 | vice-principal | 2002-2003)

Liverpool University (professor of English literature | 2003 | head of the School of English | 2004-2007 | pro-vice-chancellor for cultural engagement | 2011)

Lancaster University (The Ruskin advisory board | chair)

Oxford Companion to English Literature (general editor)

British Association for Victorian Studies (president)

Times Literary Supplement (contributor)

London Review of Books (contributor)

Man Booker Prize (panel member)

Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (mathematics | director of studies | 2011-2014)

Oxford University (Mathematical Institute | Whitehead Lecturer)

Balliol College (supernumerary fellow)

Guardian (contributor)

European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (co-organiser)