Harry George Daniels.

Having completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford, where I was a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholar in the Humanities, I now teach at Jesus College, Oxford.

My research is concerned with exploring the therapeutic power of literature, and the relationship between literature, psychoanalysis, and religion. I am currently working on a revised and expanded version of my doctoral monograph, provisionally entitled Common Lovingkindness: The ‘Cure of Souls’ in Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1840–1970. My work has been published in Essays in Criticism, Modern Philology, and The Henry James Review, among other places.

‘Theory without experience is empty,’ the late Jonathan Lear once wrote in a formulation adapted from Kant, and ‘experience without theory is blind.’ My scholarly enquiries into the nature of psychological cure and care have been grounded in the clinical encounter – I am in training as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, and also volunteer as a Listener at The Listening Place, a suicide-prevention charity.

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