I took my BA in English Language and Literature at Somerville College, Oxford in 2021 and my MLitt at the University of St Andrews in 2022. I then returned to Oxford to undertake my DPhil at Kellogg College (2022–25). My doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Timothy Michael, was a study of William Blake’s Los.
The thesis traced Blake’s revisions (or re-visions) to Los’s ‘fall into Division’ and ‘his Resurrection to Unity’ in text and image from 1794 to c. 1820. It argued that Los’s primary purpose in the early works is not to function as Blake’s representative or mouthpiece but to satirise what Blake saw as misconceptions of prophecy. The thesis used the ‘Minute Particulars’ of a single figure to reconsider prophecy, gender, time and history, the Fall, eschatology, and the self in Blake’s works and within a broader long-eighteenth-century context. I am currently preparing this work for publication as a monograph.
As well as prophecy and Christian theology, my research interests include gender and sexual violence, time, textual revision, visual art, classical reception, Newtonianism, and geological symbolism in the long eighteenth century.
I teach literature in English from 1660 to the present day. I teach FHS Paper 4 (Literature in English, 1660–1760) and Paper 5 (1760–1830) at Oriel College and Prelims Paper 3 (1830–1910), Prelims Paper 4 (1910–present day), and FHS Paper 5 at St Edmund Hall. I also mentor students on the MSt in English, 1700–1830. I have previously held lectureships at Lincoln College and Exeter College and have supervised undergraduate and master’s dissertations for the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Theology.
I also run a fortnightly Blake reading group, which is open to all University students and staff. Please be in touch if you would like to attend.
