I studied for my BA, MPhil, and PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and spent a year at Harvard University on a Herchel Smith scholarship. Before joining Wadham, I was a Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies, and College Lecturer in English and Philosophy at Downing College, Cambridge. I have also undertaken pre-clinical training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
I am currently in the process of publishing a series of essays based on my doctoral research, alongside a short monograph titled On Fire: Combustion, Aesthetics, and the Global Environmental Crisis. This book will provide an international perspective on combustion as a particularly complex aesthetic figure for representing contemporary social and political experience. I have also begun work towards a project examining the representation of animal states of mind across psychoanalytic, literary, and philosophical contexts.
At Wadham, I'm responsible for teaching the following papers: Introduction to Literature; English Literature, 1760-1830; English Literature, 1830-1910; English Literature, 1910-Present; and dissertations. I have previously taught widely across the English Tripos and the Philosophy Tripos at Cambridge, and I’m currently a Junior Teaching Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, where I help to run a series of object-centred seminars as part of the cross-disciplinary Krasis programme.
