Iris currently holds a College Lectureship at University College, Oxford, where she will be teaching Prelims Papers 3 (Literature in English, 1830-1910) and 4 (Literature in English, 1910-Present), which she will also teach at Lincoln College from January. She has supervised undergraduate dissertations on a range of twentieth-century and contemporary literature, including the modern gothic, novelistic violence, and Angela Carter. She has acted as Teaching Assistant for an optional undergraduate module entitled ‘Possibilities of Criticism’. She designs and delivers workshops, seminars and tutorials for various outreach programmes at Balliol College, Oxford, focused on topics ranging from Cold War literature to detective fiction to Imagism.
Outside the university, Iris is the Waynflete Academic at Magdalen College School, where she runs an extra-curricular reading group and assists with the school’s English Society.
She has lectured on metafiction for an independent Summer School programme, taught a week-long set of classes on “Oxford” (-authored or -set) literature for a visiting New York school, and a two-week intensive Summer School programme on the short story form.