Thesis title: Virginity and the Early Twentieth-Century British Novel: Fictions of Incompleteness
Supervisor: Rebecca Beasley
Research interests: twentieth-century literature and culture; literary modernism; queer and gender studies; the history of sexuality; national identity; temporality; sentimentality; the novel and narrative
Doctoral Research: My AHRC-funded DPhil research examined virginity as a way of reframing discussions of (anti)sentimentality, time, Englishness, and spirituality in the early twentieth-century British novel. Writers under consideration in this project include (but are not limited to) Mary Butts, Ford Madox Ford, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Hope Mirrlees, Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf.
Teaching: I have worked with undergraduates and visiting students on a range of modern and contemporary authors and subjects, from twentieth-century asexuality to the history of the novel form.
Publications
'Growing Absurd: Sexuality, Development, and Virgin Time in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage.' Studies in the Novel 55:4 (Winter 2023, special issue on 'Strange Temporalities')
'"Preserved Through Childbirth": Reading Deep in Mrs. Dalloway's Virginity.' Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming April 2026)
"Djuna Barnes and the Creepy Doll: A Collection", Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (forthcoming)
