Supervisor: Professor Fiona Stafford
Research Interests: 18th/19th centuries; the periodical form; transatlantic influence; verbal and visual culture; animal poetry; geology in literature; absence and loss
Doctoral Research: I am exploring the relationship between extinction and anthropocentrism in apocalyptic literary texts from British and American periodicals of the first half of the nineteenth century. As such texts are often highly allusive, I also hope to trace the lines of influence between them. My BA and MA dissertations, both awarded at the University of Exeter, focused on eighteenth-century animal poetry and the role of silence in gothic texts respectively. Before my DPhil, I taught secondary-school English and gained my PGCE with QTS.
Teaching: FHS Paper 6: Special Options (Word and Image) in Michaelmas 2024; FHS Paper 5: Literature in English, 1760-1830 in Trinity 2025; Jane Austen: Literature and Legacy at Lady Margaret Hall's Summer School in Long Vac 2025
Conference Papers: ''The cold world shall not know': Silence and Sympathy in Shelley’s 'Julian and Maddalo'', The Shelley Conference, July 2024; 'Beyond the Last Man: Shelley's Response to Buffon's 'sublime but gloomy theory'', Oxford's Romantic Research Seminar, May 2025