I hold an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Durham, and undergraduate degrees from the University of Cape Town. My professional life has been in English Language and Literature, and History teaching. My strengths are creative writing, editing, proof-reading, ghost-writing and materials writing for language learning. I have specialised in the following areas of English Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, 20th century poetry and drama, South African literature, Anglo-Indian literature.