University College London’da edebiyat profesörüdür. Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England, 1870-1900 (Haymarket, 2009); The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle (Peter Lang, 2012); Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, Chaucer to Dickens (Verso, 2015) adlı kitapların yazarıdır.
