Brigid

Top rated teacher and lecturer at elite institutions. Oxford Doctorate, Cambridge Fellowship.

My teaching is all about showing my students how to love what they are reading, and how to understand what makes it special. I am passionate about what I teach, and believe that passion is key to learning. I also understand that getting through exams is in some ways a game, and I will teach my students how best to play it.

I am an engaging, passionate, erudite, systematic and reassuring teacher. I was always a star student myself, achieving straight As at school, and achieving the highest marked arts degree across the whole university at BA: I am master of my subject, and of how to demonstrate this mastery in assessments at all levels.

Willing to travel: 30 miles

Experience: I am an academic of international standing, and a very experienced teacher of English Literature, which I first taught while studying for my doctorate at Oxford. I went on to a full lectureship at the University of Sheffield, where my many hundreds of students rated my teaching - in lectures, seminars and small groups - as excellent. Students were sometimes moved to tears by my lectures, and I got a huge thrill from hearing them say "you made me love this!"

Later I went to Cambridge, where I was a Fellow of Trinity College, the UK`s top academic institution, with more nobel laureates than any other, alongside several of whom I lived and worked. As well as publishing books and research articles, I have contributed to many literary companions and encycopedias read by thousands of students. I am now a novelist and poet, and understand how literature works from the point of view of someone who makes it.

DBS Check: Yes