My latest book is For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance. I have also written a number of articles on popular romance fiction. Descriptions of some of the the topics and romance novels I have analysed as a contributor to Teach Me Tonight, an academic blog devoted to the study of popular romance novels, can be found on the links page.

I began my academic career at the University of St Andrews, where I gained my Ph.D. My particular interest was in attitudes towards death in fifteenth-century Castile. Information about my work in this and other areas of Hispanomedievalism can be found in the section on Hispanomedievalism.