Elizabeth

Cambridge-educated English Literature researcher and teacher with experience teaching from primary to undergraduate level. Fluent in French and with expertise across all periods of English Literature, English Language, History and Philosophy.

Hi! I`m Lizzie and I`m a PhD student in the English Department of King`s College London, fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). My doctoral research is on the relationship between modernist fiction and the First World War, focusing on Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. I also hold a first-class BA in English and a distinction-equivalent MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature, both from the University of Cambridge. I`m originally from Manchester and moved to London to start my PhD last October after a year of living in Paris.

I specialise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century English literature, but I have also studied the full span of English literature from 1300-present, in addition to American, Indian, Pakistani, and South African literatures. I am also a specialist in English Language of all periods, and can teach English for academic purposes to university level. I can teach History of all periods to A-Level and I speak fluent French. I am a friendly and laid-back tutor with a real passion for my subject. I also have extensive experience of preparing students for Oxbridge interviews and the ELAT.

Availability: I am available from Monday to Friday at all hours including evenings, barring Monday mornings.

Willing to travel: 8 miles

Experience: I spent the year in between my MPhil and PhD in Paris, where I worked as a high school English teacher, teaching students ranging from 11-year-olds with very little knowledge of the language to 18-year-olds about to sit final exams in English literature.

I also have a great deal of experience in British schools: I teach English literature seminars at an academy in Barking once a week, and I have participated in a number of `widening participation` programmes with the KCL Department of English, teaching poetry classes in schools around Ilford. Whilst studying for my MPhil, I tutored a number of undergraduate Cambridge students through their final exams.

I have also taught English literature at an undergraduate level. In the first term of this academic year I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of English at King’s. I taught the level four module ‘Introduction to Literary Theory’, which was convened by Dr Sita Balani and Dr Seb Franklin, to two groups of seventeen first-year undergraduates. In January, I marked 52 written papers for this course according to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities’ marking criteria, and no adjustments were made to any of my marks during the moderation process.