Before first becoming a student at Buckingham in 1986, Paul taught English Literature, at Secondary level, at schools in the independent sector. After studying for two postgraduate degrees at Buckingham, both in Victorian Literature, he was awarded his DPhil in 2008 for his work on nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish literature. He contributed to Women in Irish Drama: a century of authorship and representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and has written for the Anglo-Spanish academic periodical Estudios Irelandeses. Paul’s book From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula will be published in 2011. Since 2007 he has been working as a Research Associate on the Dickens Journals Online project.