Thesis title: Virginity and the Early Twentieth-Century British Novel: Fictions of Incompleteness
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 (supervised by Prof Rebecca Beasley) examined the significance of virginity references in the early twentieth-century British novel.
Teaching: Currently a Stipendiary Lecturer in English (1830-Present) at Christ Church, 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')
'Weighing Up Celibacy: The Fat Virgin of Molly Keane’s Devoted Ladies'. Humanities 15:4 (2026, special issue on 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing'
'"Preserved Through Childbirth": Reading Deep in Mrs. Dalloway's Virginity.' Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming April 2026)
"Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and the Creepy Doll: A Collection", Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (forthcoming 2026)
